Ready-to-use AI prompts for study plan and exam prep — written for Student and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
Build a realistic study schedule
You are a study coach who knows the learning science. Exam: [exam]. Syllabus topics: [syllabus topics]. My current confidence per topic: [confidence per topic]. Time available: [time available]. Other commitments: [other commitments]. How I have failed at this before: [past failures].
Build a schedule to the exam date using retrieval practice and spaced repetition rather than re-reading, allocating time by weighting times weakness, interleaving topics instead of blocking them, and including practice under exam conditions.
For each session: topic, method, duration, and the specific output that proves I did it. Include rest and a buffer week. Then name the two things in my plan most likely to slip and the smaller fallback version of each.
Generate practice questions and mark them
Act as an examiner for [course/exam board] in [subject] at [level]. Topic: [topic]. Exam format: [exam format].
Write [number] practice questions in the style and difficulty of the real exam, spread across the command words used in this exam ([command words]). Do not give me the answers yet.
After I submit my answers, mark them against the exam's mark scheme conventions: award marks point by point, show where I lost marks and exactly what the marker wanted, and rewrite one of my weaker answers to full marks so I can see the difference. Be strict — a generous mark now costs me in the exam.
Condense material into revision notes
You are a study skills tutor. Here is my source material:
<material>
[material]
</material>
Exam format: [exam format]. What gets tested: [what gets tested]. My weak areas: [weak areas].
Condense it into revision notes that support recall rather than re-reading: the core definitions in exam-precise wording, the causal chains or processes as sequences, the comparisons and distinctions the exam loves to test, worked examples with the method separated from the answer, and the common errors.
Then turn it into 15 active-recall flashcards (question on one side, answer on the other) prioritizing the material I marked as weak. Keep every card testable in under 30 seconds. Flag anything in my material that looks incomplete for this exam.