Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-05

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 upcoming generation all the vehicles like cars, buses as we as trucks will be fully automation. While individuals wi be traveling inside their vehicles will be passesngers. Although this development could create certain challanges, I believe that the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages.

Initially, the major advantages of autonomous vehicles is that they could significantaly improve road safety. It is a very banificial for all individuals. People can enjoy their trip as well as thier family and friends. There are several banifites of driverless vehicles. First, it is fully automatice and many advance featurces available in the car. For example, advance sensors, it ditected traffice as well as control thier speed and many more. Therefore, it is very conviniant for all the human being.

On the other hand, Every coin has two side so some disadvantaces of the driverless car. First and formes resoan is that it replace professional driver's job. It major impact on low income family. Secondly, sometimes hackers hack the system and control their vehicles as well as know thier location. So it is the key loss poin of the driverless vehicles. For instance, some professional driver whom family depend on their on jon so they major effect on low income family. Hence, some disadvantages also here.

In conclustion, although driverless vehicles may cause technological risk and unemployment in some sector, their ability to enhance road safety as well as improve traffic efficiency make them a positive development in short. That's why I believe that the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

Please note that the response contains only 243 words, falling short of the required 250-word minimum (excluding 16 copied prompt words). The response addresses the task only partially. While you present a clear position that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, your ideas remain limited and under-developed. For instance, your points about road safety and job displacement are introduced but lack deep explanation or specific supporting evidence. To reach a higher level, you must expand fully upon your arguments, provide well-developed examples, and ensure you securely meet the minimum word count requirement without copying directly from the prompt.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

There is some organisation evident in your writing, with clear paragraph breaks separating your introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion, but there is no clear overall progression of ideas. Cohesive devices are sometimes inaccurate, repetitive, or inadequate; for example, the use of transition markers like 'Initially', 'First', and 'Secondly' feels mechanical, and phrases like 'On the other hand, Every coin has two side so some disadvantaces' disrupt the logical flow. Referencing is also occasionally unclear, such as pronoun use referring back to previous nouns. To improve, you should aim for smoother transitions between sentences and paragraphs, ensuring that your ideas logically flow from one point to the next with greater variety in your cohesive devices.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

Your vocabulary range is limited, showing a minimally adequate range for the task, accompanied by noticeable errors in spelling, word choice, and word formation that cause some difficulty for the reader. Throughout the text, there are frequent lexical slips, such as 'upcoming' instead of 'future', 'automation' instead of 'automated', 'passesngers' instead of 'passengers', 'banificial' instead of 'beneficial', 'ditected' instead of 'detects', 'conviniant' instead of 'convenient', 'disadvantaces' instead of 'disadvantages', 'formes' instead of 'former', 'resoan' instead of 'reason', and 'conclustion' instead of 'conclusion'. To achieve a higher band, you need to use a wider and more accurate range of vocabulary, demonstrating better control over spelling and word formation.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You use a very limited range of structures, and your attempts at complex sentences are frequently faulty. There are frequent grammatical errors involving verb forms, subject-verb agreement, and prepositions, which can cause difficulty for the reader. Examples of these errors include 'all the vehicles like cars, buses as we as trucks will be fully automation', 'While individuals wi be traveling', 'major advantages... is that they could significantaly improve', and 'some professional driver whom family depend on their on jon'. Additionally, your punctuation and sentence boundaries need better control. To progress, you should practise constructing accurate complex sentences and carefully check your grammar for basic structural and agreement errors.

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