IELTS Task 2 opinion essay: Tall apartment blocks in cities
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 6.5. Updated on 28 October 2026.
The question
The best way to provide enough homes in large cities is to build tall apartment blocks.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
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
It is often argued that building tall apartment blocks is the best way to provide enough homes in huge cities. While some people may hold a different view, I strongly…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Essay #1
Task response 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
There is a view that building hige-rise aparment blocks is the most effective approach to provide sufficient homes in major cities. Although I agree that tall aparment…
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