Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-09-22
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)
In the upcoming days all transportations vechiles will be driverless where only individuals travel inside these vechles like a passengers.I belive that driverless vechile are highly required to this nation based on the highly technology era.
On the one hand, undoubtedly the driverless vechiles have to be used for the transportation because it have the safety measures where it is operated from the cruse control system it have be connected to the all its surrounding vehicles by this we can have the less occurance of the accidents , additionally whithout driverless its have bee operated in the correct way with the gps by which it is used to safe the time of passengers,For instance the by this process the goverment have have recived the good response from this on tesla cars.
On the other hand,indeed without the driverless the main hhuge impact is done on the driver they lost there job who are having only single sills of driving they can be survive due to the driverless driving system ,Moreover based on the highly technology it consist of highly expensive to the purchasers additionaly the technical issue can be occured any time for this types of vechiles it can't be managable, for examlple when ever the vechile is at the highly crowed area likewise if the maps shoes the wrong direction the vechile may met with the accidents.
In conclusion ,I belive that the advantages of driverless vechiles outweight the disadvantages because they can reduce the accidents ,save time and make the transportation convinier and safer,
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 4.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 4.0 |
| Overall | 4.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The response addresses all parts of the prompt by discussing both the advantages and disadvantages of driverless vehicles and clearly states a personal position in the introduction and conclusion. Ideas are presented, such as safety measures, time-saving via GPS, job losses for drivers, and technical malfunctions in crowded areas. However, these ideas tend to be under-developed and are sometimes unclear or repetitive, characteristic of a Band 5 response. For instance, the example regarding Tesla cars is vague, and the explanation of technical issues lacks sufficient depth and specific elaboration. While a clear stance is maintained throughout, the lack of fully developed supporting details prevents the response from achieving a higher band score under Task Achievement.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The essay is organised into four distinct paragraphs, attempting a standard structure with an introduction, two body paragraphs for opposing views, and a conclusion. However, the overall progression is hindered by frequent punctuation and run-on sentence issues. Cohesive devices are used awkwardly or inaccurately, such as starting sentences with "For instance the by this process" or "indeed without the driverless". Paragraphing is present, but internal cohesion is frequently faulty and mechanical, making the flow disjointed for the reader. Referencing is also occasionally unclear, such as pronoun usage referring to abstract concepts. These features place the response firmly at Band 5.
Lexical Resource — Band 4.0
The lexical resource is limited and heavily impacted by numerous spelling errors, such as "vechiles" instead of vehicles, "vechiles", "cruse", "whithout", "goverment", "recived", "hhuge", "sills", "survive", "additonal_y", "examlple", "crowed", and "convinier". The student attempts some less common vocabulary such as "transportation", "surrounding vehicles", and "technological era", but the high frequency of inaccurate word forms and spelling mistakes causes noticeable difficulty for the reader and obscures meaning in places. This meets the criteria for Band 4, where basic vocabulary and frequent errors strain the reader.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0
The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, utilizing relative clauses and conditional structures. However, grammatical accuracy is very low throughout the text. There are persistent errors in subject-verb agreement, tense usage, and sentence structure, such as "transportations vechiles will be driverless where only individuals travel inside these vechles like a passengers" and "the driverless vechiles have to be used for the transportation because it have the safety measures". Punctuation is largely neglected, resulting in run-on sentences and comma splices. Because errors are frequent and often cause difficulty for the reader, a Band 4 is appropriate.
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