Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-31

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)

Due to advancement in technology in future care and buses will be driverless going to discuss both advantages and outhweigh of disadvanteges in upcoming paragraph.

To start with advantages ,safety come in both the part advantages and disadvanteges firstly we are talking about advantages so in safety basicly reducing injury-related crashes by roughly 68% to 80% compared to human-driven, on other side less man power more money for example if you owned a traveling agency then you heir a driver you need to give salary to drive and also need to take care of car maintanance rather then if you swith with driverless car you just need to take care of maintanance only

just a car maintainace cost no need to give money to a driver.

On other side disadvantages the most important disadvantages of driving driver less car.

Cybersecurity & Hacking Risks: Because driverless cars rely heavily on 1]software, internet connectivity, and cloud communication, they are vulnerable to remote hacking, data breaches, and malicious software control.

2] unpredicatabel envirment: curently autonomous system still strugle to drive in critical weather condition for example like heavy rainfall snow fall to much crowed plass

3] unemployment[ job loss] In todays company shifting toward driver less car which may lead a proficional thread toward a proficianal driver.

TO conclude with may driver less car is good but it only work in certhan part

while selecting with driver is good

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You address both sides of the question, giving possible safety and cost benefits and raising hacking, difficult weather and job losses as drawbacks. However, the task asks whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and your position is not clear: the introduction promises to discuss the issue, while the conclusion says driverless cars are “good” but only work “in certain part,” without directly weighing the two sides. The safety statistic and travel-agency example are relevant, but their connection to your overall judgement is not explained, and the disadvantages are mostly listed rather than developed. The response is also 14 words below the required minimum. State your view clearly and support it by comparing the importance of the benefits and risks.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some basic organisation: an opening, a paragraph on advantages, a paragraph on disadvantages and a concluding statement. The reader can identify the main topics, and phrases such as “To start with” and “On other side” attempt to guide the discussion. However, progression within paragraphs is limited, and the advantages paragraph moves abruptly from safety to staffing costs. The numbered points in the disadvantages paragraph read more like notes than connected argument, while the conclusion does not clearly follow from a comparison of the points. Some linking phrases are repeated or used imprecisely. Develop each main idea in a complete sequence—claim, explanation and example—and use clear transitions to show how the points relate.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You attempt vocabulary relevant to the topic, including “driverless,” “cybersecurity,” “data breaches,” “malicious software” and “autonomous system.” This shows some range beyond basic everyday language. However, spelling and word-choice errors are frequent and sometimes make the reader pause, as in “outhweigh,” “unpredicatabel envirment” and “profisional thread.” Some expressions are also unnatural or imprecise, such as “safety come in both the part” and “switch with driverless car.” Repetition of “disadvantages” and “driverless car” further limits flexibility. Check spelling carefully and learn common collocations for discussing transport, employment and risk; precise phrasing will make your ideas easier to understand.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple statements and longer sentences, including a conditional example beginning “if you owned a traveling agency.” However, the range is limited, and attempts to combine several ideas often produce faulty sentence structures. For example, “Due to advancement in technology in future care and buses will be driverless going to discuss…” lacks a clear grammatical connection between the clauses. There are frequent problems with articles, agreement and sentence boundaries, as in “safety come” and the long sentence about hiring a driver and maintaining a car. Punctuation and capitalisation are also inconsistent. Practise writing complete sentences with one main idea, then add subordinate clauses only when their grammatical relationship is clear.

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