Example of Complete IELTS Essay

Question 1

People attend college of university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Answer
The percentage of the people attending college or university has been increasing. Various reasons bring out with the increase of attending. Personally, I think that the new reasons are based on the changes of our social surroundings. Therefore, I would like to raise and explain the reasons from the point of new changes. The primary reason is that workers return to college or university to broaden their knowledge. They try to get a degree such as Master’s or PhDs. Or they just take a few courses to meet their pursuit of study. In these days, many universities offer courses in order for such kind of workers to take part in. At a glance, they look
experts in the business and people think they do not have to go to school. That is because they worked for many years before attending college. However, they think their business skill is not complete. They declare that they go to school again to combine their knowledge and to add new knowledge (skills, experience).

The second reason is that people try to get new skills to meet social demands. Many companies want very skillful people when they employ. In the past, companies educated employees after they entered it. It was worthy as long as employees never quitted the job. However, the long-lasting recession makes it impossible. Companies can not afford to pay money for the education of employees. Therefore, many workers have to study by themselves to develop their skills. To seek the new education, they attend college or university.

In the end, colleges and universities themselves change to offer new specific fields. They are no longer research facilities in this meaning. Students can get their favorite job relating to their specific field. I will illustrate law schools as an example. Law schools will be founded next year. Of course, people go there to be a lawyer. Yet, they do not have to enroll a law school if they can pass the law examination. People can choose one of the ways, going to a law school or passing the test. When they choose a law school, they attend a college. Besides law schools, colleges or universities offer various courses about specific fields for students.

In sum, people change their reasons to attend colleges or universities along the social environment change. I believe there are many changes such as worker's mind, market recession and university itself. In the future,more and more changes will occur if our surroundings change again.

Question 2

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Answer

Some people think parents influence their children because they spend much time with the children. But
personally, I think some parents have problems to raise the children, and the surroundings around children
influence them a lot. Therefore, I believe that parents are not the best teachers.
Firstly, parents are not always have a right to raise the children. Some parents violate the children. It is a serious problem. Society has to protect the children from the parents. Sometimes, an official of children protection center visits the parents, and persuade not to violate them. In the worst case, parents and children
have to live separately. Parents are not teachers any more in this case. Children also must not imitate such parents as them.

Secondly, children do not have enough time to spend time with parents these days. Parents today work a lot. They go back home very late everyday. Many kindergartens open until late time. Some are until seven o’clock, and some are until ten o’clock whatsoever (and so on) . Parents go and bring the children at very late time. The reason kindergartens open late is the change of our society. In the old time, women stayed home. If they have a job, they work inside home. But nowadays, many women work outside. As a result, both parents return home to sleep. When children can make time to learn from the parents?

Lastly, children are influenced by their surroundings. They go to school, play with the friends, and get familiar with many people. All of them are teachers for children. For example, children make friends in their school. Children learn how to make friends by themselves. In other words, other children teach it. Parents can not
teach how to make friends in their home. Despite children are living with parents, we can not determine that parents are the best teachers.

Therefore, I think that parents are not the best teachers. Some parents have very serious problems. Some can not have enough time to communicate with the children. Children are also influenced by other people to whom parents can not change. Although parents are not the best teachers, they should strive to be the best
teachers for their sweet children.

Question 3

Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Answer

I do not agree that easy preparation of foods leads improvement of our life. Nowadays, we can buy cooked foods easily. We just use a microwave before eating them. It is very convenient. However, I think we lose important things when we eat easily prepared foods. We should not pursue only convenience in our life. I will
show three reasons why I think that. The primary reason is that the quality of easily prepared foods is low. Many kinds of chemicals are added in cooked foods we buy. The aim of the chemicals is to give flavors and colors. It is said that they do not harm for us. But consumers are anxious about the safety. It is difficult to understand the work of a huge number of chemicals. Moreover, when two or more chemicals are mixed, safe chemicals might change to harmful one. Unfortunately, the arrangement is infinite. We can not survey all of patterns.

The second reason is that people become not to cook well. They can go to a convenience store or a grocery store to buy frozen foods or cooked foods easily. They use a microwave, or sometimes only pour hot water. They wait until the foods are prepared. How can they improve their cooking skill in this way? Cooking is
important to enrich our life. When we lose the skill, we also lose the quality of life, too.

Another reason is that to cook foods means to keep our house tastes. Each house has its own taste. It is succeeded to many generations. A house taste can be estimated to be a culture in the family. But convenient foods neglect all of the house tastes. They offer the same taste to consumers. In other words, we eat the same taste cooked by machines. We do not think they are the best taste. We know that the most delicious
taste for people is their own house taste.

In conclusion, easily preparation of foods does not improve our life. We have to worry about chemicals, we disprove our cooking skills, and we do not succeed our house taste. Sometimes we are busy, and we do not have time to cook. But even if we eat easily prepared foods, we should not forget the importance of cooking.

Question 4

It has been said, "Not everything that is learned is contained in books." Compare and contract knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

Answer

Certainly, books include a lot of knowledge useful in our life. I often read a book to kill time or to gain knowledge; However, I strongly believe that knowledge gained from experience is more valuable than that from books. Even if books are useful, they can not tell us all of the real information. I will write three reasons
why experience is more important.

First, knowledge from experience is more valuable for children. Children learn many ways from their real experience. As an example, I will show how to climb a tree. Suppose children who can not climb a tree. The only way to be a good climber is to climb actually by themselves. They feel the tree through their five senses
by touching a stem and by grabing branches.

Second, knowledge from experience is more believable. Sometimes, books include false information. Especially, old technical books have that. For example, people trusted old medical books from China in Edo age. But they were not correct. Once they practically had opened a human body to observe, they would have found out the books would have been wrong. They did not try to observe that. Only subtle experience would
have changed the medical progress.

Third, knowledge from experience is harder to forget. When we read a book, we think we understand the book. But to tell a (the) truth, we forget the information just after reading it. Reading a book is less impressive than experience because we use only eyes when reading book. On the other hand, we hard to forget the experience (We do not forget the memory we actually experienced).

At least, we forget our experience less than reading a book. That is because we can use all of our senses when we experience. Using more senses is better to understand in our brain.

To sum up, experience is more important than reading books. Experience is more practical, more believable, and more unforgettable. If we have a chance to choose experience or book, we should choose experience.