Why use it?
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If you don’t use your feedback you will find it harder to improve your work. You need to learn from your mistakes and learn what you are doing well. Your lecturer doesn’t give feedback for the fun of it, they do it to help you progress. You should be able to see a progressive rise in your grades and you should find that you are more easily able to complete your work safe in the knowledge that what you are doing is on advice from your lecturer on previous pieces of work.
“The feedback I received on my course was excellent and the fact that I used it properly and didn’t just skim read it for the grade meant that I was able to greatly improve my work through out my degree. Of course I had to work extremely hard for three years to gain a first but I know that my feedback directly contributed to this.”
You may find that sometimes specific feedback on a particular aspect of work can’t always be applied to other pieces of work on different modules but it all enhances your learning. Much feedback though is transferable, for example if you get feedback about your writing style and how to improve it, that will inevitably be transferable to other written work you might do.
“Yes, I have definitely seen a progression in my grades. When I know what went wrong I can work on it!”