IELTS Task 2 two-part essay: The influence of news media
A Task 2 two-part question. Answer each question directly, and give the two parts about the same weight.
3 students’ essays below, each marked by Axiom, from band 6.0 to 8.0. Updated on 20 October 2026.
The question
Today, news plays an important role in people's lives and news media are more influential than ever before.
Why is this the case? Is it positive or negative?
Students’ essays on this question, marked by Axiom
Across these 3 essays the average band is 7.0: Task Response 7.3, Coherence and Cohesion 7.0, Lexical Resource 7.0, Grammatical Range and Accuracy 7.0. 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 #3
Task response 8.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
In the current day and age, the role of news has become vitally essential in the lives of ordinary people and its influence is far greater now than ever before. This…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.0
Essay #2
Task response 6.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 6.0
It is suggested that nowadays news has a crucial role in people's lives and media news are more influential than ever before. I believe this reason is because of social…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Essay #1
Task response 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
There is a view that news has become an important part of people's daily lives and has more influence than in the past. This is mainly because modern technology allows…
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