Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-25

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)

It is becoming increasingly common for vehicles to go driverless. Although this development offers several notable advantages, particularly to old-age people and people who does know how to drive, it also presents certain drawbacks, most notably fear of accidents and failure of technology mid way.

One of the most significant advantages of the cars and buses being driverless is that people who are in there old age will not have to depend on anyone to drive them to do there basic tasks. This is largely attributable to the fact that it adds to there freedom to visit places they always wished to visit, but never wanted to bother there loved ones to specially take out time for them just to drive them to a special location. Furthermore, driverless cars can be huge blessing in disguise to the people who does not know how to drive or are not able to drive at the moment, which can eliminate the need of a person who knows to drive, and can go to places on there own without any hassle. Consequently, a driverless car or any other vehicle can really be beneficial to a large amount of people.

Notwithstanding these benefits, driverless cars and buses is not without its disadvantages. The most significant concern is that of technology failure. The underlying rationale is that of car becoming out of service, becoming disconnected to internet and not able to drive further. This can end up in a really bad situation, leaving people standed in some isolated locations where there is no help for hundreds of kilometres. Potentially giving rise to further more problems then just being stuck at a place. Thus, even after having multiple advances people should not overlook there disadvantages.

In conclusion, vehicles like cars, buses and trucks becoming driverless offers considerable advantages, particularly to old age people and people who are not able to drive. Nevertheless, these benefits must be weiged against the potential drop back including people being stranded because of technological failure. Overall the development represents a handfull of benefits, provided that can result in a massive technology advancements, the disadvantage to people should not be overlooked.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both sides of the question and give a relevant overall view: driverless vehicles could help older people and those unable to drive, while technology failure could leave passengers stranded. These points are supported with explanations, such as greater independence and the possibility of being far from help. However, the response does not clearly answer whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The conclusion says benefits are considerable but also warns that disadvantages should not be overlooked, leaving the comparison unresolved. In addition, the disadvantages are developed through only one main concern, and the claim that the technology could fail is not balanced with a specific example or explanation of how likely or serious this is. State your judgement directly and compare the relative importance of the two sides.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, separate paragraphs for benefits and drawbacks, and a conclusion. Sequencing is generally easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “Furthermore,” “Consequently,” and “Notwithstanding these benefits” help signal relationships between ideas. This meets the lower-band expectation of coherent organisation and shows some flexibility in linking. To make progression more consistently clear, improve the links between claims and their explanations: the discussion of older people, for example, moves from independence to visiting places without explicitly connecting this to the wider impact of driverless transport. Some references are also unclear, particularly “these benefits” and “the disadvantage to people” in the conclusion. Use more precise referencing and make the final paragraph synthesise the comparison rather than repeat points.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a range of relevant vocabulary, including “underlying rationale,” “isolated locations,” “technological failure,” and “eliminate the need,” which helps communicate the main ideas. There are also attempts at less common expressions, such as “blessing in disguise.” However, several word-choice and collocation errors make the writing less natural, including “old-age people,” “huge blessing in disguise,” and “massive technology advancements.” Spelling errors such as “standed,” “weiged,” and “handfull” are noticeable, and “further more problems then” contains inaccurate forms. These errors do not prevent the reader from understanding the main argument, but they limit precision and control. Prefer standard collocations and check spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of sentence forms, including complex clauses with “Although,” “which,” and “where,” and most of the main ideas remain understandable. However, errors occur across basic agreement, pronouns, articles, and sentence construction. For example, “people who does know how to drive” and “cars and buses is not without its disadvantages” have subject–verb agreement problems; “there old age” and “there freedom” use the wrong possessive form. The sentence beginning “Potentially giving rise to further more problems” is a fragment, while “provided that can result” in the conclusion lacks a clear subject. These recurring errors reduce accuracy, especially in longer sentences. Build complex sentences around a complete main clause, then check agreement and pronoun forms.

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