Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people travelling inside these vehicles will be passengers.

Do you think the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Driverless vechicles plays a significante role in future for transportation and travelling. Now a days most of the cars are running without drivers, in future buses and trucks also run without drivers. In my opinion there is both advantages and disadvantages by using these driverless vehicles.

On the one hand, there are some advantages that are the companies need not give give salaries to drivers as the cars became automatic. Thus we do not have any fear of driver absences so that we can any where at any places we want. There is no any extra charges like food, drinks for driver. Just we have to give the location of where we have go the car will take to that destination. For example if a person went to party in car and he taken alcohal, now he want to go his home, drunk and drive is illigal, thus he can reach his house safely by his car using automatic driving techonogy.

On the other hand, disadvantages are also main problems of this. We can not trust the machines by keeping humans aside, some times it may makes mistakes that may leads to an accident. The humans will loose their driving jobs as all vechicals will be automated. Passengers can not stops the vechicals in the middle of the way if there is any emergency occurs in the cars or buses, thus can not open the doors as the vechical is automatic, if any fire accident occured in bus can leads heavy loss of lives of people as they can't come out.

I my opinion there so many disadvantages by using drivessless vehicals that the advantages, so many people loss jobs and may have treath to lives of people. So that the technology have to use upto some extinct if not it may leads to dissaster.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address the question by presenting advantages and disadvantages and giving a clear final view that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. The examples are relevant: driverless cars could help someone who has been drinking get home safely, while a fire or system failure could put passengers at risk. However, some points are asserted rather than fully explained. For instance, the claim that companies would save on drivers’ salaries is not clearly connected to benefits for society, and the job-loss point could be developed with its wider effects. Your position is clearest in the conclusion; state it more directly in the introduction and explain why the safety and employment concerns outweigh the convenience you describe.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a coherent overall structure: an introduction, separate paragraphs for advantages and disadvantages, and a conclusion. The signposts “On the one hand” and “On the other hand” help readers follow the comparison, and examples generally appear alongside the relevant point. Some connections are less clear or mechanical, however. In the advantages paragraph, “Thus we do not have any fear of driver absences so that we can any where at any places we want” combines ideas without showing their relationship clearly. The conclusion also repeats the disadvantages without summarising the comparison. Use clearer links between each claim and its consequence, and make references such as “this” or “it” point unambiguously to a specific idea.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main ideas, including “automatic,” “driving jobs,” “emergency,” and “accident.” The drinking-and-driving example also shows an attempt to express a specific situation. However, the range is limited and several word choices or spellings make the writing less precise, such as “driver absences,” “extra charges like food, drinks,” and “threat to lives.” There are also repeated forms of “vehicles” and “disadvantages,” while “technology” and “illegal” are misspelled. Aim for more accurate collocations and a wider range of terms for safety, employment, and convenience; this will make your arguments clearer and more natural.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, including a conditional example about a passenger who has been drinking and a sentence explaining the possible consequences of a fire. Meaning is generally recoverable, but some errors in sentence structure, verb forms, agreement, and articles reduce accuracy. For example, “Driverless vechicles plays” has a subject–verb agreement problem, and “the cars became automatic” uses an unsuitable tense. The sentence beginning “if any fire accident occured” is also difficult to follow because its clauses are not joined clearly. Practise building complex sentences with a clear main clause and accurate conditional forms, and check agreement and tense consistency. More reliable control of these patterns would make your reasoning easier to read.

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