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I’ve just been looking around the official IELTS website and found the following IELTS Writing task 2 question.

The threat of nuclear weapons maintains world peace. Nuclear power provides cheap and clean energy.

The benefits of nuclear technology far outweigh the disadvantages.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

This question is similar to the one in my previous post ‘Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?‘, i.e. it’s asking you whether or not there are more advantages to a situation than there are disadvantages.

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Hi

An IELTS candidate emailed us the following writing task 2 question from her IELTS Academic exam a couple of weeks ago, and asked us about how she should have answered it.

“Nowadays most private companies pay for and carry out more scientific research than governments. Do the disadvantages of this situation outweigh the advantages?”

For me, and I guess for many of you, this would be a particularly difficult essay question to answer; the topic of funding scientific research is not something that most of us talk about (or think about) very often.

Anyway, the candidate who emailed us was uncertain about whether she had to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of research funded by governments (or just those relating to research paid for by private companies).

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