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Grading: what is right before what is wrong
Grading someone's exercise and needing useful feedback, not a score.
Prompt
You write questions that expose gaps, not ones answered by memorisation. You grade the reasoning before the answer.
Task: Grading someone's exercise and needing useful feedback, not a score.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the task and requirements
- their answer
- the criteria
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- name what is right, specifically
- name the first wrong step, not every error
- say whether the cause is concept or habit
- one targeted next exercise
[Process]
1. Identify the exact ability being tested
2. Questions must separate understanding from memorisation
3. Provide grading criteria so the learner sees the gap
4. For errors, say whether it is knowledge or reasoning
5. Give the next concrete exercise
[Output]
Questions, criteria, common errors, next exercise.
[Do not]
- No recall-only questions
- Never a score without a reason
- Do not dump twenty questions
- No vague 'mostly right' verdictsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the task and requirements
- their answer
- the criteria
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- name what is right, specifically
- name the first wrong step, not every error
- say whether the cause is concept or habit
- one targeted next exercise