Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-09-12

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 4.5)

Futureristic transport like cars, buses and trucks will be without driver. The only individuals sit inside in the vihilesvehicles will be passengers. This statement have more demerits rather than merits. I believe that it will be create a serious problems for society like traffic congestion and met number of accidents But have benefit as people dont rely to much on drivers.

To commence with, driverless vehicles have detrimental effect on our society. To explain, it engaging more accidents on road due to much rely on the technology and then road gets busier because of the accident. For instance, in foreign countries whenever the accidents occur then road will blocked for few hours and people face dely on their arrival. Furthermore, people buys more driverless cars and it will effect the nature as well. As a result, more accidents happen on the roads because of this sometimes people lose their life and damage others vehicle.

On the other hand, this change brings some positive situation in society. To illustrate this, driverless vehicles helps people to travel without depedent on driver also save the cost of driverand it mailnly saves transportation service cost without heir the driver for their company. For example, where transportation organisation paying a salaries to their drivers it will saved. Due to this, this method supports cost saving only one time spending money on any vehicles.

In conlusion, every innovation have two different sides so this development encourage people self dependent. However, driverless vehicles engaging more accidents and fear of lossing any life. I believed that balance bettween both cases revent this issues

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The student addresses the prompt by taking a clear position that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. However, the development of ideas is limited and somewhat repetitive. The body paragraphs attempt to discuss traffic accidents and cost-saving benefits, but the arguments lack sufficient depth and concrete, well-explained examples. For instance, the mention of foreign countries having blocked roads is vague. While all parts of the task are addressed, the ideas remain under-developed and general, fitting the Band 5 descriptor where the response is somewhat simplistic and lacks full extension of points.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The text is divided into an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion, showing basic paragraphing. However, the logical progression is frequently disrupted by awkward phrasing, abrupt transitions, and mechanical cohesive devices like 'To commence with' and 'To illustrate this'. Referencing is sometimes unclear, particularly in the conclusion where sentences like 'I believed that balance bettween both cases revent this issues' fail to connect smoothly with the preceding arguments. Overall organisation is present, but the lack of clear progression and faulty cohesion place this response firmly at Band 5.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.5

The vocabulary used is basic and repetitive, with numerous spelling errors such as 'Futureristic', 'sit inside in the vihilesvehicles', 'dely', 'mailnly', 'heir', and 'lossing'. The student attempts some less common terms like 'transportation service cost' and 'innovation', but frequent word-choice errors and incorrect collocations ('met number of accidents', 'dont rely to much') impede the flow of communication. The lexical range is limited and minimally adequate for conveying simple ideas, corresponding to a Band 4.5 or 5.0, where noticeable errors cause difficulty for the reader.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

The response displays a very limited range of grammatical structures. Simple sentences dominate, and attempts at complex structures are consistently marred by fundamental grammatical errors, such as subject-verb agreement issues ('This statement have more demerits', 'every innovation have'), incorrect tense usage ('this change brings some positive situation', 'vehicles helps'), and missing articles or prepositions. Punctuation is also problematic in places. Because errors are frequent, highly noticeable, and occasionally distort meaning, the grammar aligns with Band 4.0 descriptors.

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