Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-12

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)

In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people trvelling inside these vehicles will be passengers. The driverless vehicles are both have advantages and disadvantages. In upcomining years the diverless vehicles are new technique or techonology that introduce to the worlds.

There are many advantages of driverless vehicles. The main and most important advantages is they helps to reduce in the ratio of accident. Because the all function of veichles is controlled by computerise. Especially, the race and break, the computer well now where the race is increased or decreased and now suddenly apply breaks in riskey moments. The other advantage is they helps to disabilities person to drive veichles and also to the long distance travellers. they helps to those parents that take stress about pick and drop of their childs.

Several they are also a disadvantages of driverless car. The main and important disadvantage is that's make a serious problem, stress and tension for those people who can work as a driver in other countries. Means for those people who can work as taxi driver and support to their families. And drive a trucks and buses and working in tronsport of luckadge companies. Those people becomes jobless and techonolgy takes jobs or empolyment of people. The other or main important disadvantage is the driverless veichles are controlled by computer, sometime the computer stops working by network issues and hacker discrupt the system they may be car driven on busy road, they may lead to a majour accident.

In my opinion, the driver less veichles is may be dangerous for world. Because they increase in the ratio of unemployment and may be a reason of dangerous accident.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both sides of the question, giving potential safety and accessibility benefits and concerns about job losses and computer or network failures. Your final view is clear: you believe driverless vehicles may be dangerous, particularly because of unemployment and accidents. However, the position is not fully consistent with the task’s comparison of whether advantages outweigh disadvantages: the introduction says there are both, but the conclusion focuses only on risks and does not explicitly weigh them against the benefits. Several points are also asserted rather than explained—for example, how the technology would help parents or reduce accidents. Develop fewer ideas with specific explanations or examples, and state directly which side outweighs the other. The response meets the task’s length requirement; 14 words copied from the prompt were not counted in the total. (14 words copied from the task prompt were not counted.)

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph on advantages, a paragraph on disadvantages, and a concluding opinion. This helps the reader identify the main topics. However, progression within paragraphs is uneven, and some links are unclear or repetitive. For instance, “The other advantage” is followed by several separate benefits without clear development, while “The other or main important disadvantage” repeats the same framing. Connect each point to the next with clear relationships, and use topic sentences that signal the paragraph’s main claim. The conclusion should also refer back to the comparison in the question. More precise referencing and fewer repeated transitions would make the argument easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant topic vocabulary, including “driverless vehicles,” “accident,” “unemployment,” “network issues,” and “hacker,” so the main ideas are generally understandable. However, the range is limited and several words or phrases are repeated, such as “main and important” and “the other advantage/disadvantage.” Frequent spelling errors—including “veichles,” “techonolgy,” and “empolyment”—and inaccurate word choices sometimes make the reader work to understand your meaning. Some combinations are also unnatural, such as “reduce in the ratio of accident” and “support to their families.” Build a wider set of accurate collocations for safety, employment, and accessibility, and proofread spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt to express reasons and consequences, including with “Because…” and “they may lead to a major accident,” but most sentences rely on simple patterns, and attempts at longer structures are often faulty. Errors in agreement and verb forms appear in “The main and most important advantages is” and “they helps,” while “The driverless vehicles are both have advantages” shows a faulty sentence structure. Articles, plurals, and sentence boundaries also need attention; for example, “a disadvantages” and the fragment beginning “Because the all function…” interrupt accuracy. Practise building complete sentences with a clear subject and verb, then check agreement and articles. Greater control of these basics, alongside a few accurate complex sentences, would improve clarity.

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