Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-13

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 6.0)

In upcoming years, automatic driving cars will be possible due to advances of science. The drawbacks of driverless cars, buses and trucks includes the risks towards the human which always overshadow the benefits like time saving.

Commencing with the positive aspects, to learn how to drive is one of the most time consuming task and this uneccesary waste of time can be avoided by having a technology to drive a vehicle. Every vehicle has distiguished features that is needed to be learn, so to master the car and the truck driving at the same time is not possible. For instance, a boy decided to learn driving the car and it almost takes him 30 days to learn it perfectly; however he still can't drive truck or bus even after spending such a long time on mastering the car driving.

Turning to the negative side, malfunctions in the driverless vehicle is something that cannot be avoided by the simpler means and can cause irreversible destruction to the mankind. Artificial intelligence always comes with their defects which may be the major source of the risk to the human race that can cause disabilities or even death. To exemplify, if malware happens in the driverless bus it can cause accident which not only become the reason for the injuries to the passengers of the bus but also to the people who are driving or walking on that same road.

In conclusion, human life has much more worth than the time that individual is spending on learning driving.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both sides of the question and make your position clear: the risks outweigh the benefit of saving time, as stated in the introduction and conclusion. The discussion is relevant, and the examples about learning to drive and a bus malfunction help illustrate your points. However, the advantages are represented mainly by the time needed to learn driving, rather than by broader benefits of driverless transport, such as improved access or fewer human-error crashes. The example about a boy learning to drive is also lengthy relative to the point it supports. Develop each side more fully and explain why the risks are likely to outweigh the benefits, rather than relying chiefly on a general claim about danger and human life.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, separate paragraphs for advantages and disadvantages, and a conclusion. Transitions such as “Commencing with the positive aspects” and “Turning to the negative side” make the direction of the discussion easy to follow, and the examples are placed with the relevant arguments. This coherent organisation meets the expected standard, while the progression within paragraphs is sometimes less smooth. For example, the shift from the time required to learn driving to the claim that different vehicles have distinct features needs a clearer explanation of how this supports driverless technology. Some linking phrases also feel formulaic. Use more direct links between claims and evidence, and make references such as “their defects” more precise so readers can follow the reasoning without pausing.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use some topic-related vocabulary, including “driverless vehicle,” “malfunctions,” “artificial intelligence,” and “irreversible destruction,” which helps communicate the subject and the seriousness of the risks. There is also an attempt to vary expression rather than repeat the same basic terms throughout. However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “automatic driving cars,” “risks towards the human,” and “master the car and the truck driving.” Spelling errors such as “uneccesary” and “distiguished” also reduce accuracy. These issues sometimes make the reader work to interpret your meaning, although the main ideas remain understandable. Build a more reliable range of natural collocations for discussing transport, safety, and technology, and check spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of simple and complex sentences, including clauses introduced by “which,” “if,” and “however.” This gives the response some structural variety, and the main message is generally understandable. However, errors occur across sentence patterns and sometimes make relationships between ideas unclear. For example, “The drawbacks … includes” has a subject–verb agreement error, while “Every vehicle has … features that is needed to be learn” contains problems with agreement and clause construction. In “if malware happens … it can cause accident,” the conditional is understandable but the sentence needs more accurate article and number forms. Work on agreement, articles, and the construction of relative and conditional clauses; then proofread each sentence to ensure its parts fit together grammatically.

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