ChatGPT prompts for studying

I’m studying for my [subject] exam. Quiz me on [topic]: one question at a time, wait for my answer, tell me what was right and wrong, then ask the next one – easy first, then harder. Only after 10 questions give a short summary of what I should review.

Summarise the attached material as study notes. Follow the material’s sections, keep definitions verbatim and add two questions after each section that let me check whether I understood it. Answers at the very end.

Explain [term] so that I understand it as a [year/programme] student: first one sentence of intuition, then the exact definition, then a concrete example with numbers, then the most common misconception.

Here is an exercise from my problem sheet: [exercise]. Create three similar exercises with different numbers and increasing difficulty. Only show the solutions when I write “solution” – then justify every step.

Here is my solution to [exercise]: [solution]. Check it step by step. Don’t give me the correct solution straight away – just tell me in which step the first mistake is and give me a hint.

Here is a past exam: [text]. Assign each task to a topic, estimate the points per topic and tell me which three topics to learn first if I only have [X] days left.

Create flashcards from the material in the format “question ; answer”, one per line. Each card asks exactly one fact, makes sense without the material and is phrased as a real question. No cards about title slides or references.

I’ll now explain [topic] to you in my own words. Pretend you’re a first-year student and ask wherever my explanation is incomplete, imprecise or too complicated. [My explanation]

What are the five most common mistakes students make on [topic] in exams? For each: a short wrong example, why it’s wrong, and how to do it right.

Explain how [topic A] and [topic B] are related. What’s the same, what’s different, and when do I need which? End with a comparison table.

Explain this code line by line as if we were stepping through it in a debugger. For an example input, give the variables’ values after each step as a table. [code]

Explain this proof: first the idea in two sentences, then every step with the theorem or definition it uses. Mark the step that contains the key idea. [proof]

Simulate an oral exam in [subject] on [topic]. Ask an open question, probe my answers like an examiner and give me a grade with reasons at the end.

My [subject] exam is on [date]. The topics are: [list]. I have [X] hours per day. Create a study plan with reviews at growing intervals and two mock-exam days at the end.

Create a table of the 20 most important technical terms in the material: term, one-sentence explanation, the term in German, and a typical sentence in which it appears in an exam.