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Keen IT students can improve their marks when given a chance to learn from their mistakes

  • Written by Muneera Bano, Lecturer Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
Keen IT students can improve their marks when given a chance to learn from their mistakesWe need to reflect on our mistakes and learn from them if we're to improve our chances of success.Shutterstock/patpitchaya

From a very young age, we are conditioned to learn to succeed by avoiding failures or mistakes.

Our traditional education system is built largely on examination that marks down students for their mistakes in any assessed work....