Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-03

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 5.5)

In the future all form of tranports such as cars, trucks and buses wil be diverless. Th only people traveling inside these vehicles will be passengers. I strongly think that there are more advantages of diverless vehicles as their disadvantages. There are many advantages of diverless vehicles that releted to enviornment and may also protects human health. Diverless vehicles such as cars, buses, trucks and any other form of transprot may produce less pollution in the enviornment and protect our ozone layer from disruption.Similarly, they have provides more benefits for those people who dont know how to drive. For example, disabled or blind people dont know how to drive they can used diverless cars and do their works as same as other do . As result, everyone do their own work without depend on anyone.We save our time and energy for work and spend time with family. As compared to, we may face some issues related to this modern development. The only people traveling inside these vehicles will be passengers. Empolyment has been affected in the future due to driveless transports.For instace, poor people drive taxi, uber, indrive to make enough money and fullfill their needs of children and live happy life with their family.Consequently, more people have unempolyed and faces inflation and may be affects on ecnonmy. In conclusion,driverless vehicles provides more benefits and helps disabled people to travel easily in any country without dependent on anyone.As well as many advantages to the enviornment and reduce air pollution and protects our roads . However, many issues aise related to the unempolyed of people in their future and loses their jobs.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You give a clear position that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and you address both sides of the question. The benefits you identify—help for people who cannot drive and possible environmental gains—are relevant, while the loss of taxi and ride-hailing jobs provides a suitable counterargument. The example of disabled or blind people is particularly connected to the topic. However, some claims are unclear or insufficiently explained: for instance, you say driverless vehicles may produce less pollution without explaining how, and the point about protecting the ozone layer is not clearly linked to the technology. The employment concern is also introduced but not weighed in detail against the benefits. Develop these ideas with clearer reasoning and a more explicit comparison.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has an overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph on advantages, a paragraph on disadvantages, and a conclusion. This makes your position and the main contrast easy to identify. You also use linking expressions such as “Similarly,” “For example,” and “In conclusion.” At times, however, connections are mechanical or unclear. “As compared to” does not smoothly introduce the disadvantage paragraph, and the repeated statement about passengers does not advance the argument. Some references, such as “they” and “this modern development,” could be more precise. Improve progression by giving each paragraph a clear central point, linking each example directly to that point, and avoiding repeated or loosely connected statements.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant topic vocabulary, including “driverless vehicles,” “pollution,” “disabled,” “employment,” and “inflation,” so the reader can follow the main ideas. There are also attempts to express more specific concepts, such as “ozone layer” and “unemployed.” However, spelling errors and inaccurate word choices are noticeable and sometimes make the meaning harder to understand: examples include “tranports,” “enviornment,” “Empolyment,” and “ecn onmy” (intended as “economy”). Some combinations are also unnatural, such as “protects our roads” and “more people have unemployed.” Check spelling carefully and learn common collocations, for example “reduce air pollution,” “protect the environment,” and “people become unemployed.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a reason-and-result structure in “Consequently” and examples introduced with “For example.” The overall meaning is generally recoverable, but errors in sentence construction and verb forms occur across the response. For instance, “they have provides” combines incompatible verb forms, “they can used” needs a modal followed by the base form, and “everyone do” has incorrect subject–verb agreement. The conclusion also contains incomplete or awkwardly joined clauses, such as “As well as many advantages to the environment.” Use a reliable range of sentence patterns, and check agreement, verb forms after modals, and whether each sentence has a complete main clause.

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