Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-14

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)

Due to the technological advancement over the world, people are getting many automated services that making their life easier and comfortable without manual efforts. Driverless vehicles are one of those services. It is expected that, in upcoming days, people will travel as passengers inside these driverless vehicles. From my point of view, i don't think the advantages of driverless will surpass the disadvatages of it.

The driverless vehicles is one of the innovations of the science that is very much fascinating for the public. Driverless vehicle provides automated driving experience to the human so people do not need to drive themselves or rely on any other human to drive. This eliminates the human effort, time and error. People can use this time on some other activities or can simply relax.

However, there are some negative impacts of the driverless vehicles. This will affect several socio-economic factors such as rising unemployment rate, making the vehicle service costly etc. For example, If all the vehicles become driverless in the future, the job of drivers will be obselete which will rise unemployment rate. Moreover, as the the driverless vehicle technology is costly, the vehicle service will also become costly.

Other than these, people will become more dependant on the technology and lose control over the vehicles. Any technical error will lead to major accident and people will not able to control it as they are already dependant on the technology.

To conclude, driverless vehicle will give confort in human life. But replacing human with driverless vehicle technology have many negative impact on the society. These disavdantages outweighs the advantages of it.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear from the introduction: you believe the disadvantages of driverless vehicles outweigh their advantages, and the conclusion restates this view. You address both sides, identifying convenience and reduced human effort as benefits, and unemployment, cost, and technical failures as drawbacks. These are relevant points, but some are less fully developed than others. For instance, you explain how drivers could lose their jobs, but the claim that the technology will make services costly is not supported with a specific reason or example. The risk of accidents is also raised without explaining how likely failures might occur or why passengers could not respond. Develop each main point with a clearer explanation or a relevant example to make the argument more convincing.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph on benefits, two paragraphs on disadvantages, and a conclusion. The progression from advantages to drawbacks is easy to follow, and signposts such as “However,” “Moreover,” and “To conclude” help guide the reader. This meets the lower-band expectation of coherent organisation and also shows some features of stronger progression. However, the links between ideas can feel mechanical, and the paragraph beginning “Other than these” introduces another disadvantage without clearly connecting it to the previous discussion. Some references, such as “This” in “This will affect several socio-economic factors,” could identify their subject more precisely. Use more varied transitions and make links between claims explicit to strengthen the flow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main ideas, including “automated,” “unemployment rate,” “technical error,” and “dependant on the technology.” There are also attempts at more formal phrasing, such as “socio-economic factors.” However, noticeable spelling and word-choice errors reduce precision: “disadvatages,” “obselete,” “confort,” and “disavdantages” are misspelled, while “automated driving experience to the human” is an unnatural collocation. Repetition of “driverless vehicle” and “technology” also limits flexibility. These issues do not prevent the reader from understanding your argument, but they make the expression less controlled. Check spelling carefully and learn common collocations, for example, “provide passengers with” and “depend on technology.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a conditional example beginning “If all the vehicles become driverless in the future” and a sentence explaining that people can use their time for other activities. The main meaning is generally clear, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “services that making their life easier” needs a finite verb, and “The driverless vehicles is” has a subject–verb agreement problem. In “people will not able to control it,” the verb phrase is incomplete; “will not be able” is needed. Articles and number also need attention in phrases such as “the driverless vehicle” when referring to vehicles generally. Review agreement, verb forms, and article use, then proofread punctuation and capitalisation, including the lowercase “i” and “If.”

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