the prompt this whole guide is built on
Here are my lecture slides for [class]. Make a one page study guide: the key terms with short definitions, the 5 ideas most likely to be on the exam, and 10 practice questions. Put all the answers at the very end so I can quiz myself first.
The exam is in two days and all you have is a slide deck your professor clicked through way too fast. Half the slides are one word and a picture. You don't even know where to start.
Start here. Hand the slides to an AI chat tool and ask for a one page study guide with practice questions at the end. You get the stuff to study and a way to test yourself, in about the time it takes to make coffee.
How to do it
- If the AI tool won't open the slide file, export the slides as a PDF. In PowerPoint or Google Slides, look under the File menu for a PDF option.
- Upload the PDF, paste the prompt above and swap in your class name.
- Read the key terms and big ideas once. If anything doesn't match your notes, trust your notes and fix it.
- Cover the answers and do the practice questions on paper. Circle every one you miss.
- Use the follow up below on the ones you missed, then quiz yourself again tomorrow.
For the ones you missed
I got these questions wrong: [paste them]. Explain each one in two or three sentences using only my slides, then give me one new question on the same idea. Hold the answers until I reply.
The night before
Using the same slides, make 8 harder questions that mix ideas from different lectures, the kind that make you connect things. Put the answers at the very end again.
that's it. go try it tonight.
