After your feedback is generated, a chat opens. The chat knows your question, your response, and your feedback in full. It can explain, extend, demonstrate, and push back.
You’re not paying by the hour. Most students type “ok thanks” and leave. That’s the equivalent of a tutor giving you detailed notes and you putting them straight in your bag. The students who improve fastest are the ones who ask.
Prompts that unlock better feedback
When the feedback uses a term or concept you don’t fully understand, ask for a plain explanation.
Ask for an example sentence or paragraph at your current band — not at Band 6. A Band 6 model is too far from where you are to be useful.
Paste a specific sentence from your response and ask how to improve it. This is the most direct path to getting better — not a model answer to copy, but your own words made stronger.
If you’re not sure you understood what the question was actually asking, the chat can break it down. Understanding the question is the first mark you earn.
Before you reattempt the question, ask the chat to summarise the one or two things you most need to change. Go into the second attempt with a specific target.
The chat won’t help you cheat — and that’s the point.
The feedback chat is set up to help you understand and improve — not to write your response for you. Asking it to write a full Band 6 essay is the wrong use of the tool. You’ll get something back, but you won’t learn anything, and you’ll sit in the actual exam without the skill you should have built.
- ✕“Write me a Band 6 response to this question.”
- ✕“Just tell me what to write.”
- ✕“Is my essay good?” (with no specific question)
- ✕“Ok thanks.” (and leaving)
- ✓“Show me how my opening sentence could be stronger at Band 4.”
- ✓“What’s the one thing that would move me to the next band?”
- ✓“Can you explain why my analysis was too surface-level?”
- ✓“Before I reattempt — what two things should I focus on?”