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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a previous student" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who has attended a course or program before the current time.
Example: "I often seek feedback from a previous student to improve the curriculum for future classes."
Alternatives: "an earlier student" or "a former student".
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She was ineligible for new student loans, she learned, unless she paid back a previous student loan.
I also asked a previous student to return as a teaching assistant.
This was a common practice under a previous student payroll practice.
On Tuesday the British comedian Avery Edison, who is transgender, travelled to Toronto to visit her girlfriend and was found to have overstayed a previous student visa.
Apparently the SLC wrote to me in October 2015 to explain, though it of course sent this to a previous student address, so I never received the letter.
Professor Block has done experiments in which students prepared for an exam with a study guide used by a previous student.
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The most common mistake is following a fellow (or previous) student's example.
None of this is surprising as our black presence at these institutions is a response to previous student demands for diversity.
Spell out what you want in a way that's not just a blogpost or placard – previous student campaigns for free education or to save EMA have been creative in their messaging, such as the "grants not loans" banner drop below.
Jonathan Smith, a policy researcher at the The College Board in D.C., uses this to show that a student will be 13% more likely to make a mistake if the previous student performed flawlessly.
Over in Marsfield police arrested another target of those previous raids, a former student of Arthur Phillip High, twenty-two-year-old Mustafa Dirani.
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