Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-14

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 5.5)

The way of driving would be change totally and individuals are travelled inside their vechicles will be passengers. In my perspective, cons of this trend outstrip it pros and forthcoming paragraphs will justify my viewpoint.

To commence with, there are myraid drawbacks of this notion. First and foremost, it would be increase the unemploment. To explain, now individuals are doing job as a driver in various tranportation and earn good income for their families if vechiles would convert driveless so people will lose their livelihoods. Therefore, it would create various problems in common citizens life. Furthermore, sometime technology are not properly work due to technical problem in this case individuals would face some system glitches and they face some difficulties while travelling. Thus,having problem of sensor failures would be create accidents on road.

Additionally, having reliance on automation people may lose skill of driving and during the emergency they would not able to visit on location. As a result, people would become lethargic and loss their skill due to driverlss cars. Despite of this, driveless care require high inital cost because the parts of the vechicles would be expensive which would not able to buy for common people. Therefore, It would increase the financial pressure on people shoulders.

On the flip side, there are huge merits of this trend, some people are having fear of drive due to this they always prefer public tranport or rely on their elders to reach their destinations so having this technology people can easily go one place to other place. As a consequences, it would make people jounery more comfortable.

To recapitulate, it reiterate my perspective, although driverless vechiles would give comfortness to the people but it increased the problem of unemploment along with makes people skill less.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear: you believe the disadvantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the advantages, and you return to this view in the conclusion. You address both sides, giving relevant drawbacks such as job losses, technical failures, reduced driving skills and high costs, then noting that the technology could help people who are afraid to drive. However, some points are asserted rather than explained. For example, the claim that people would be unable to reach a location in an emergency needs a clearer link to losing driving skills, especially when the vehicles themselves are autonomous. The advantage is also less developed than the disadvantages. To strengthen the response, explain the likely scale or consequences of each point and support it with a specific example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, paragraphs presenting disadvantages and an advantage, and a conclusion. The sequence of ideas is generally understandable, and signposts such as “Furthermore,” “On the flip side” and “To recapitulate” help show the direction of the argument. However, some linking is mechanical or does not express the relationship accurately: “As a consequences” introduces a result, while “Despite of this” does not clearly connect the preceding point. Several ideas are crowded into the same paragraph, and references such as “this trend” and “this notion” could be more precise. Group related points more clearly and use transitions that show whether you are adding a reason, giving an example or drawing a consequence.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You attempt a range of topic-related vocabulary, including “automation,” “sensor failures,” “livelihoods” and “financial pressure,” which helps communicate the main arguments. However, noticeable spelling and word-choice errors sometimes make the reader pause, as in “vechicles,” “unemploment,” “driveless” and “comfortness.” Some combinations are also unnatural, including “increase the unemployment,” “lose their skill” and “people shoulders.” These issues limit the precision and naturalness of the vocabulary, even though the intended meaning is usually recoverable. Build accuracy by checking spelling and learning common collocations as complete phrases—for example, “increase unemployment” and “put financial pressure on people”—rather than translating expressions word by word.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You try to use both simple and more complex sentences, including conditional forms such as “if vehicles would convert driveless” and clauses beginning “because” and “although.” This shows an effort to express causes, conditions and contrasts. However, some sentence structures are faulty, and errors in verb forms, agreement, articles and sentence construction recur. For instance, “The way of driving would be change” needs a passive form, while “technology are not properly work” combines incompatible verb forms and agreement. In “people would not able to visit,” the modal construction is incomplete. These errors can make relationships between ideas less clear. Practise accurate patterns such as “would be changed,” “technology does not work properly,” and “would not be able to,” then check each sentence for a complete verb phrase.

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