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)

Cars, buses and trucks will become driverless in the future. Passengers will be only people that travel inside them. From my prespective, driverless transportation have more disadvantages as compared to advantages. In this essay, I will discuss both.

Nowadays, technology has improved our lives and made it easier. Automotive manufactuing is on their boom and there is an ongoing competition that who will make the first car in which drivers are not mandatory. For instance, in China, several companies are in the process of developing the driverless vehicles such as BYD and Dong Feng. One advantage of accomplishing this, that it will cut down the cost associated with driver such as salary. And companies can utlize money on improving efficiency of different type parts such as GPS system.

On the other hand, older people who are not familiar with technology, this can create choas and fear in them. Hence, it eventually leads to a point where people will be trust advanced vehicles. Moreover, this feature will also contributes to high level of umeployment particularly in people whose profession are associated with it. In addition to this, safety concerns related to incidents have gone under noticed by majority of automotive manufactures.

In conclusion, in my opinion, the disdvantages of driverless vehicles will outweigh the advantages. The main reasons includes high level of umeployment, issues associated with safety of passengers and unfamiliarity of this technology in people.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You state a clear view that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and you address both sides, including lower operating costs, unemployment, safety and older people’s concerns. However, the response is under the required 250 words, which limits how fully you can develop the argument. The advantage is explained briefly through reduced driver salaries and possible investment in GPS, but the link between that investment and wider benefits is not made clear. The disadvantages are also mostly listed rather than supported: explain how job losses might affect workers, or give a specific example of a safety risk. Your position is clear, but fuller explanation and relevant examples are needed to develop the response more completely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, a paragraph presenting an advantage, a paragraph on disadvantages, and a conclusion that restates your position. Linking expressions such as “For instance,” “On the other hand,” and “Moreover” help signal the direction of the argument. However, progression within paragraphs is sometimes unclear. For example, the point about companies investing in GPS does not explain how this supports the benefits of driverless vehicles, and “Hence” introduces a consequence without a clear preceding explanation. The conclusion repeats the disadvantages rather than drawing together the reasoning. Make each paragraph follow a clear point–explanation–example sequence, and use referencing and connectors only where the relationship between ideas is explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use some topic-relevant vocabulary, including “driverless vehicles,” “automotive manufacturers,” “efficiency,” “safety concerns” and “unemployment.” This gives you a workable range for discussing the subject. However, spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable and sometimes make the intended meaning less clear, as in “prespective,” “manufactuing,” “choas” and “umeployment.” Some combinations are also unnatural, such as “on their boom,” “cut down the cost associated with driver,” and “gone under noticed.” Aim for accurate collocations and check spelling carefully. You could also use more precise terms for the effects you discuss, such as “operating costs,” “job displacement” and “public confidence,” while ensuring that each phrase fits its sentence.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a relative clause in “people whose profession are associated with it” and a conditional idea about how technology may affect older people. However, the range is limited, and errors occur frequently enough to affect clarity. Examples include “transportation have” instead of subject–verb agreement, “One advantage … that it will cut down” without a complete grammatical structure, and “this feature will also contributes,” where the verb form is incorrect. The sentence beginning “older people who are not familiar with technology” is also a fragment. Practise building complete sentences with clear subjects and verbs, and check agreement, articles and verb forms before submitting.

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