The phrase "actual student" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to distinguish a real student from someone who may not be enrolled or is pretending to be a student.
Example: "To participate in the program, you must be an actual student enrolled at the university."
Alternatives: "genuine student" or "real student".
"A lot of the trend toward increasing test scores was not attributable to gains in actual student learning," Mr. Tobias said.
A Student Aid Services study of the federal template's methodology, using actual student financial profiles, found that family contribution estimates were off by an average of $5,335.
They agreed to organize teachers to confer in their own school districts about exemplary lessons and how actual student work met their standards.
Officials say the assessment system is intended to measure actual student progress and not to reward those selective schools that already start out with a talented, high-performing student pool or to penalize those with poor disadvantaged students.
In the misanthropy of my actual student days, I had never been interested enough to find out who the song was by, let alone paid attention to what would have been, under normal circumstances, risibly cliched lyrics.
Although some of the formulas are supposed to take things like poverty and disability into account, the justice concluded that there was little evidence that these formulas have any connection to actual student needs.
The allegations that Newton cheated academically three times at Florida before leaving the university is a blow to the N.C.A.A.'s effort to show that its stars are actual student-athletes.
The cushions are most often used to allow for variations in statistical sampling, but schools are reporting on actual students, not samples of them.
As former teachers ourselves, we know that matching the standards to good classroom practice will take trial and error on the ground, with actual students.
Meanwhile, ringers — large, talented nonstudents, wearing jersey numbers listed for actual students — were commonplace, though using them was against the rules.
Watching a video that looks as if it were made with a convenience store security camera, as most Internet courses do, without the slides, syllabus and other materials available to actual students, dilutes the experience, Mr. Sandel said.
