I want to know how this marks before I hand it in
Find out how it marks while you can still change it
Feedback arrives two weeks after submission, attached to a grade you can no longer affect, on a piece of work you have stopped caring about. Which is the wrong order — the useful moment for feedback is while the draft is still a draft.
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What this will not do
It is not your marker and its assessment is not your grade. It reads your rubric and tells you where your work is thin against it. Treat it as a rehearsal, not a verdict.
How it actually goes
- 1
Upload the draft and the marking scheme
Both are needed. Feedback without the rubric is just an opinion; with it, the feedback is anchored to the thing you are actually being marked on.
- 2
Get it criterion by criterion
Where each rubric line is met, where it is not, and specifically what is missing — rather than a general impression of the whole piece.
- 3
Argue with it
Ask why a criterion is scored the way it is. Sometimes you will find that the point is in there and buried, which is itself the finding — a marker will miss it too.
- 4
Fix it yourself and run it again
Revise, re-upload, see what moved. That loop is the whole value, and it is the loop the real feedback cycle is too slow to give you.
Questions people in this situation ask
Does this count as someone else editing my work?
It gives you feedback; it does not rewrite your work. Feedback on a draft is what a writing centre, a study group and a good teacher all do. Check your institution's rules if you are unsure — they vary, and the responsibility for knowing them is yours.
Will its grade match my real one?
Do not treat it as a predicted grade. Use it to find the criterion you have not satisfied, which is the part that transfers to the real mark.