IELTS Task 2 opinion essay: Customs and traditions today
A Task 2 opinion question. Give your own view and keep it clear in every paragraph: agreeing in part is fine, as long as you say how far and why.
2 students’ essays below, each marked by Axiom, all band 8.0. Updated on 25 October 2026.
The question
Many customs and traditional ways of behavior are no longer relevant to modern life and not worth keeping.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Students’ essays on this question, marked by Axiom
Across these 2 essays the average band is 8.0: Task Response 9.0, Coherence and Cohesion 8.0, Lexical Resource 8.0, Grammatical Range and Accuracy 8.0. Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource and Grammatical Range and Accuracy were the weakest criteria.
Real answers, shared without their writers’ names, newest first. Each opens with its revisions marked in place. Estimated by AI. It isn’t an official IELTS score.
Overall band, an AI estimate: 8.0
Essay #2
Task response 9.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
Some claim that certain customary and traditional behaviours cannot fit in contemporary life and may not even be worth practising. Though it is true that some customary…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 8.0
Essay #1
Task response 9.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
In today’s day and age, it is argued that traditions and many customs should be abandoned altogether because they have become obselete and irrelevant. While this idea…
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