Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-01

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)

It is predicted that in the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The primary advantage of driveless vehicle is human saftey. More than 90% of road accidents are cuased by human errors, drinking, speed etc. As Automous vehicle uses LIDAR, camera and seniors to get the enviroment information, it does not tired, drink and overspeed or check phone. They communicate with each others to follow the trafic rules and changes routes to avoid trafic and any incidents.

However, there are disadvantages of driverless vehicles like unemployement, millions of job are dependent on driving taxes, trucks etc, they will be wipeout. A sudden shift to driverless vehicles can creates a ecnomic and social disturbance. Another concern, is technology reliability and security. These softwares are heavly rely on internet connectivity, intruders can hack the systems, poor performance in developements area and in heavy trafic areas.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You identify relevant advantages and disadvantages, including reduced human-error accidents, job losses, and cybersecurity or reliability concerns. However, the task asks whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and you do not state a clear overall judgement; the response ends without a conclusion. The points are also only briefly listed: for example, you mention that driving jobs could be lost but do not explain the scale or possible responses, and the safety benefit is not supported with a developed example. The response is 134 words, below the required 250 words; 12 words copied from the task prompt were not counted. This leaves the task addressed only minimally. State your position clearly and develop each main point with explanation and a relevant example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic, understandable structure: it introduces the topic, presents a safety advantage, and then signals a contrast with “However” before discussing disadvantages. This helps the reader follow the broad direction. However, the ideas within each section are compressed into lists, and there is no concluding paragraph to complete the progression or clarify your overall view. Connections between claims also need to be made explicit: the discussion moves from job losses to economic disturbance, then to technology security, without explaining how these points relate or prioritising them. Develop a clearer paragraph structure, use linking phrases to show cause and result, and finish by returning to the question of which side is stronger.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You attempt topic-specific vocabulary, including “driverless vehicles,” “human errors,” “LIDAR,” “internet connectivity,” and “hack the systems.” These choices make the subject clear, and the response shows some range beyond basic everyday language. However, spelling and word-form errors are noticeable, such as “driveless,” “saftey,” “cuased,” “unemployement,” and “ecnomic,” and some expressions are imprecise or unnatural, including “get the enviroment information” and “job are dependent on driving taxes.” These errors reduce the accuracy and polish of the vocabulary. Check spelling carefully and choose more precise collocations, such as “collect data about their surroundings” and “jobs in the transport industry.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You use some simple sentences and attempt more complex structures, for example, “As [an] autonomous vehicle uses…,” and a contrastive opening with “However.” The main ideas are generally recoverable, but grammatical errors occur frequently and sometimes make relationships between ideas difficult to follow. Examples include “it does not tired” instead of “it does not get tired,” “They communicate with each others,” and “a sudden shift…can creates.” There are also problems with articles, agreement, plurals, and sentence boundaries, particularly in the long sentence beginning “However, there are disadvantages…”. Practise accurate subject–verb agreement and verb forms, and divide long lists into complete sentences. Aim to control a wider range of sentence patterns without sacrificing accuracy.

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