Prompt
Do you think how important it is for people to want success in life ? Is ambition a positive or negative characteristic?
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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 acknowledges that ambition drives achievement but can harm wellbeing, while Band 9 distinguishes ambition as intrinsic goal-setting (positive) vs. status-seeking in zero-sum hierarchies (negative), and examines how structural inequality shapes whether ambition enables or frustrates.
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