Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-17

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 5.0)

These days, Technology is growing rapidly. In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only individuals travelling inside thses vehicles will be passengers. From my perspective, there are many disadvantges than advantages. I shall discuss pros and cons of driverless vechicles.

There are several disadvantages of driverless vechicles. First of all, jobs, if driverless transports distinguish many people can become jobless. For instance, a person who drive a taxi and all the household expense fullfill from his job. he can not survive in the world. Many countries are making driverless cars but this develop is not good for people. Several people will jobless.

Furthermore, If driveress vehicles are made then driverless cars will destroy people lifes because mostly people lifes held on transports.

On the onther hand, there are many advantages of driverless vehicles. firstly, Thses vehicles will straightforward for people because driverless cars will take low money from people because thses vehicles will held on electricity. In several countries electricity is cheaper and driverless transports will depend on charging and robots will drive all driverless vehicles

To sum up, There are several prons and cons of driverless vehicles. Iif people use driverless cars they give less money for taxi. driverless cars will eat employment. I believe there are many disadvantages than advantages.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

You give a clear overall view that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and you identify job losses as a disadvantage and lower taxi costs as a possible benefit. However, the response addresses the task only partially: the reasons are brief and several points are unclear or unsupported. For example, the claim that driverless vehicles will “destroy people lifes” is not explained, while the electricity-cost point needs a clearer link to passenger savings. The conclusion repeats your position rather than drawing together developed reasons. The response is 204 words, below the 250-word minimum; 13 words copied from the task prompt were not counted. To strengthen the answer, explain each main point with a specific consequence or example and develop both sides before reaching your judgement.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, a paragraph on disadvantages, a paragraph on advantages, and a conclusion. Sequencing phrases such as “First of all,” “Furthermore,” and “On the other hand” help signal the direction of the discussion. However, progression within paragraphs is limited, and some links between ideas are difficult to follow. For instance, “driverless transports distinguish many people” does not clearly connect the technology to job losses, and the sentence about people’s lives being “held on transports” is hard to interpret. The conclusion also repeats earlier claims rather than summarising the reasoning. Use one clear main idea per paragraph, explain how each example supports it, and use referencing that makes the relationships between ideas explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “driverless vehicles,” “passengers,” “electricity,” and “employment,” and you attempt to vary wording with “jobs” and “jobless.” However, the range is basic and repetitive, and frequent spelling and word-choice errors sometimes strain understanding. Examples include “thses,” “disadvantges,” “vechicles,” and “prons”; “driverless transports” is also an unnatural phrase in this context. Some expressions, such as “eat employment,” do not communicate your intended meaning clearly. Build a more precise set of terms for the topic, such as “automated vehicles,” “displace professional drivers,” and “reduce operating costs,” and check spelling and collocations carefully before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt both simple statements and longer sentences, and the overall meaning can often be inferred. However, the range of sentence structures is very limited, and frequent errors sometimes distort meaning. For example, “a person who drive a taxi” has incorrect subject–verb agreement, while “all the household expense fullfill from his job” lacks a clear grammatical structure. Capitalisation and punctuation are also inconsistent, as in “he can not survive” after a full stop and “If” mid-sentence. Practise building accurate sentences with a clear subject and verb, and check agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries. Once these are secure, add controlled complex sentences using clauses such as “because” and “which” to explain your reasons.

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