Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-24

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 6.0)

The driverless cars, buses and trucks is an advance concept, and it contains both its advantages and disadvantages which shall be discussed further. However, I believe that this concept is more determental in practice than in theory.

Driverless cars will help people to get free from dependency of drivers. Mostly people specially girls rely on their drivers and the men of their family to provide them transport facility, but with this opportunity now they can move around freely and have no dependency on their family and external sources. As in Pakistan, mostly girls are unable to travel due to lack of their family's support to let them drive and offer them transport service, but this can help them be independent and do their things on their own.

It is belived that human error is the greatest cause of traffic accidents, which will be considerably reduced id driverless cars are promoted which will promote efficient and systematic road transportation. Recently there have been accidents due to drivers falling asleep in middle of driving and losing concentrtaion from the roads. These accidents will decline, ensuring high human safety.

Nevertheless, driverless cars will take away the human aspect from it, as human are capable of making choices and decisions which can lead to informed choices and may avoid any cosniderable losses. Machines are unable to act on their own and make choices, which can lead to accidents and losses. As the cars will not know how to respond to a situation it have not been computed in for, which can lead to issues and big problems.

Further, driverless cars can lead to humans getting extremely laid back which can lead to them putting in no effort for working hard and doing something, when they know that everything is been done for them. Hence, in the long term although it will save them from road rage and driving tiredness but at the same time, will make them extremely reliant on technology and lousy. As now when AI have become so common, mostly students get their assignments done from it, which impacts their cognitive capabilties.

To conclude, I believe that the disadvantages of the driverless cars outweigh its advantages as it can create reliance on technology leading to humans losing their sense of identity and be able to do something. I think that having completly driverless cars is not a viable option, but there should be some human aspect that should be present giving some liberty for human control.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

Your position is clear: you argue that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and the conclusion restates this view while suggesting some human control should remain. You address both sides with relevant points, including greater independence for women, fewer accidents caused by tired drivers, and risks from machine decision-making and over-reliance on technology. The Pakistan example gives the first advantage useful context. Some ideas, however, are less fully developed than others: the claim that automation makes people “lousy” is broad, and the comparison with students using AI does not fully explain how this would follow from driverless transport. To strengthen the response, explain the mechanisms and consequences of your main disadvantages more precisely and support them with focused examples.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a coherent overall arrangement: an introduction states your view, separate paragraphs consider benefits and drawbacks, and the conclusion returns to your position. Linking expressions such as “Nevertheless,” “Further,” and “To conclude” help signal the direction of the argument. The progression is generally understandable, but some connections are mechanical or unclear. For example, “Further” introduces a related but distinct concern without showing how it connects to the previous paragraph, while the final sentence shifts from the overall judgement to a recommendation. Some references, such as “it” in “as human are capable” and “this” in “this can help them,” could be clearer. Use more precise transitions and make the relationship between each example and its paragraph’s main claim explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You attempt a range of topic-related vocabulary, including “human error,” “systematic road transportation,” “reliant on technology,” and “cognitive capabilities.” These choices help communicate the main ideas, and the reader can generally follow your argument. However, noticeable spelling and word-choice problems reduce precision, such as “determental,” “belived,” “concentrtaion,” and “cosniderable.” Some expressions are also unnatural or imprecise: “transport facility,” “human aspect,” and “lousy” do not convey your intended meaning as effectively as more specific alternatives. Aim to check spelling carefully and choose collocations that fit the context. Replacing broad terms with precise descriptions of safety, autonomy, or technological dependence would make the argument more fluent and convincing.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mixture of simple and complex sentence forms, including clauses beginning with “which,” “as,” and “when,” and most of the argument remains understandable. Some grammatical errors nevertheless affect accuracy and occasionally make relationships between ideas harder to follow. For example, “The driverless cars, buses and trucks is” has a subject–verb agreement problem, and “As the cars will not know how to respond to a situation it have not been computed in for” contains errors in agreement and clause construction. There are also issues with articles, plurals, and verb forms, as in “as human are capable” and “everything is been done.” Work on agreement, complete clause structure, and consistent verb forms, then proofread punctuation in longer sentences. This would improve control while preserving your attempts at complex structures.

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