On this page you can find all the IELTS Writing Task 2 Essays I have written in response to official tasks. These essays would achieve Band 8 or Band 9 in the IELTS Writing Test.
Use these model essays as examples of what writing is like at Band 8 and Band 9. My responses are ONLY ONE WAY of responding to the task – there are countless different ways of writing these essays. I hope you find them useful.

IELTS Model Essay: Young People’s Cultural Interests
In this IELTS Model Essay, I will answer a 2 part direct question essay on the topic of young people’s cultural interests. Here is the
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Hunger: IELTS Problems Solutions Sample Essay
Here is this week’s IELTS Model Essay. It’s an IELTS Problems Solutions Essay on the topic of hunger. In spite of the advances made in agriculture,
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IELTS Model Essay: Car Tax – Advantages Disadvantages Essay
Here is a sample IELTS Advantages Disadvantages Essay from IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s on the topic of car taxes, and how they are used
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Tourists In Extreme Conditions – IELTS Advantages Disadvantages Sample Essay
Here is this week’s IELTS Model Essay. It’s an IELTS Advantages Disadvantages Essay on the topic of tourism to places with extreme conditions. Today more
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IELTS Model Essay: Self Employment
This week’s IELTS model essay is one of my favourite tasks! It’s on the topic of self employment: Nowadays many people choose to be self-employed,
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IELTS Model Essay: Tidiness At Home And In The Workplace
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s an opinion essay from the IELTS General Training Test: Some people say it is
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IELTS Model Essay: Curfews for Teenagers
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s an opinion essay from the IELTS General Training Test: In some areas of
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IELTS Model Essay: Living In A Foreign Country, Languages and Problems
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s an opinion essay question from the IELTS Academic Test: Living in a country where
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IELTS Model Essay: is music a good way of bringing people together?
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s an opinion essay from the IELTS Academic Test: Some people say that
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IELTS Model Essay: Films on Phones v Cinema
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s a discuss both views essay question from the IELTS General Training
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IELTS Model Essay: Boys’ And Girls’ Schools
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s a discuss both views essay question from the IELTS General Training
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IELTS Model Essay: Problems-Solutions Essay (weight and health)
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. It’s a problems-solutions essay question: In some countries the average weight of people
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IELTS Model Essay: Sharing Information
Here is another of my IELTS model essays for IELTS Writing Task 2. I’ve also added an activity at the bottom of the page. It’s a
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IELTS Model Essay: Advertising
Here is another IELTS model essay, this time from an IELTS essay question from Cambridge IELTS Book 15: Some people say that advertising is extremely
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IELTS Model Essay: A Bad Situation
Here is my essay for this question: Some people believe that it is best to accept a bad situation, such as an unsatisfactory job or shortage
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IELTS Model Essay: Good Members of Society
In this post, I’m going to write an IELTS Writing Task 2 essay in response to a task published in Cambridge IELTS 8. It’s a
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IELTS Sample Essay: Popularity of Crime Novels and TV Dramas
In this post, I’m going to write an IELTS sample essay in response to a task published in Cambridge IELTS 15 General Training. It’s a
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IELTS Model Essay: Owning a Home v Renting
In this post, I’m going to write a model essay in response to a task published in Cambridge IELTS 15 Academic. It’s a question about
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IELTS Model Essay: Increased Life Expectancy
In this post, I’m going to write an IELTS Writing Task 2 model essay in response to this question about increased life expectancy from Test
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IELTS Model Essay: Environmental Problems
In this post, I’m going to write an IELTS Writing Task 2 model essay in response to this question about environmental problems from Cambridge 14 (Academic):
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IELTS Model Essay: facts and skills
Here is my answer to an IELTS Writing Task 2 essay. The Task Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary school