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)

It is often argued that in the upcoming era all vehicles, such as private cars, buses and trucks will be automated and just only passengers stay inside these vehicles and travelling without the assistance of drivers. I do not belive the merits of self driven vehicles outshine the demerits becasue it will cuts job opportunity.

To beging with, one of the prime disadvantages of driverless vehicles is that it will creates unemployment problems. This is because most of the drivers lost their jobs. When all the cars run automatically, there is no need to employ any driver to run the vehicles. As a result, people do not hire any person to run their personal or public behicles which cut the jobs and increasing unemployment problems. A rsearch conducted by Bangladesh road trust corporation demonstrated that around 1 million people in Bangladesh lost their jobs if all the vehicles run without drivers.

On the other hand, the positive aspects of self driven car is that it will increases passengers safety. Autamated vehicles run through the help of sattelite images because vehicles directly connected sattelite by radar system and get all real time informations during the stormy, cloudy and wet season which are not possible for a manual driving cars or buses. However, this advantages will be overcome if extra camera will be added to the vehicles.

In conclusion, although there is a advantages of self driven vehicles and I personally believe that this merits outweighes by the demerits of driverless vehicles.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

Your position is stated clearly in the introduction: you believe the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and you give a relevant disadvantage—drivers losing employment—alongside a safety benefit. The employment paragraph explains the basic cause and consequence, and the Bangladesh example attempts to support it. However, the response addresses the comparison only partly: the safety point is brief and unclear, and the conclusion says the merits are outweighed by the demerits without explaining why the employment cost is more significant than the safety benefit. Develop both sides with specific reasoning, then make the comparison explicit. For example, explain how widespread job losses might affect families and communities, and weigh that against how automation could reduce accidents.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph on disadvantages, a paragraph on advantages, and a conclusion. Linking phrases such as “To begin with,” “On the other hand,” and “In conclusion” help signal the stages of the argument. However, progression within paragraphs is sometimes difficult to follow. In the employment paragraph, the ideas about automatic vehicles, hiring, and unemployment repeat rather than build clearly, while the safety paragraph shifts from satellite information to adding cameras without explaining the connection. Some references, such as “this advantages,” are also unclear. Organise each paragraph around one main claim, explain it in a logical sequence, and use pronouns and linking expressions precisely.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant topic vocabulary, including “automated,” “unemployment,” “satellite images,” and “real-time information,” so the reader can identify the subject and main ideas. There are also attempts to vary wording with “driverless vehicles,” “self-driven vehicles,” and “automated vehicles.” However, inaccurate word forms, spelling, and collocations are noticeable and sometimes make the meaning less clear: examples include “belive,” “becasue,” “behicles,” and “lost their jobs if all the vehicles run without drivers.” Phrases such as “just only passengers stay inside” are also unnatural. Build accuracy by checking spelling and choosing standard collocations, such as “passengers travel” and “vehicles are connected to satellite systems.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a reason clause beginning “This is because” and a conditional sentence about vehicles running automatically. However, control is inconsistent, and errors in agreement, verb forms, articles, and sentence construction occur across the response. For instance, “it will creates” should use the base verb after “will,” while “the positive aspects … is” has a subject–verb agreement problem. The opening sentence also combines several ideas in a way that makes its structure difficult to follow, and the conclusion contains an incomplete or awkward comparison. Practise forming accurate subject–verb patterns and modal constructions, then check each sentence for a clear subject and main verb. More reliable sentence control will make your argument easier to understand.

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