IELTS Task 2 advantages and disadvantages essay: Online teaching replacing classrooms
A Task 2 advantages and disadvantages question. Weigh both sides, then answer the question as it is asked: whether one side outweighs the other, or whether the development is positive or negative.
2 students’ essays below, each marked by Axiom, all band 6.5. Updated on 20 October 2026.
The question
Educational institutions are replacing offline teaching techniques with online teaching.
Is this a positive or negative development?
Students’ essays on this question, marked by Axiom
Across these 2 essays the average band is 6.5: Task Response 7.0, Coherence and Cohesion 6.0, Lexical Resource 7.0, Grammatical Range and Accuracy 7.0. Coherence and Cohesion was the weakest criterion.
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: 6.5
Essay #2
Task response 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
A growing number of learning institutions are prefering to give knowledge online rather than in person. While some may assume its effects are mostly negative, i firmly…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Essay #1
Task response 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
Educational institutions are changing between offline teaching and online teaching method. Particularly online teaching more positive developement on saving both…
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