Band 9.0 Sample Answer Ideas.

• I have often thought about the question that whether honesty is the best policy among friends.

• Some truths are just very uncomfortable to tell.

• And sharing such truths might also spoil or ruin friendships.

• However, I also believe that the more uncomfortable the truth, the more important it is to tell them.

• I am going to talk about a recent event when I told my friend Yatin something uncomfortable.

• Yatin is one of my closest friends and I love spending time with him.

• However, he has a bad habit that he sometimes talks very rudely with his parents.

• Before the Covid times, we used to spend a lot of time outdoors.

• I hardly visited his house.

• But in the past year, because of the lockdown, we have been spending a lot of time at his house.

• This is the first time, I noticed that his tone with his parents and especially his mother was very rude.

• At first, I didn’t say anything because I thought it was not my place.

• But as I saw it happening regularly, I finally decided that I must tell him.

• So, one day, I told him that he should talk nicely to his parents.

• At first, he got very defensive and told me that they also talk rudely to him.

• He also started listing my shortcomings like I am very bad at sports.

• In short, he didn’t take it well.

• In fact, after that day, he didn’t talk to me for a whole week.

• But after a week, he came to me and thanked me for telling him to be nice.

• He also apologized for not talking to me till then.

• I feel that good friends are not afraid to share uncomfortable truths with each other.

• Our friends’ behaviors are partly our responsibility as well.

• And in the end, I think our friendship is stronger because I told Yatin the truth.

• He told me that because I was honest about it, he trusts me to guide him well in the future.