{"id":"study-quiz","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"format","title":"Turn messy lecture notes into a practice quiz","task":"Your Psych 101 midterm is tomorrow. You want a quiz to test yourself: exactly 5 numbered questions, with all the answers together at the end so you can't peek, under 170 words, plain text so it prints cleanly. It must cover the topic your professor said will be on the midterm, and use only what's in your notes. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","featured":true,"free":true,"materialLabel":"Your lecture notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PSYCH 101 - Lecture 6: Memory (Oct 14)\n\n3 stages: encoding -> storage -> retrieval\n\nSensory memory: very brief. Visual (iconic) < 1 sec, auditory (echoic) ~2-4 sec\n\nShort-term memory (STM): holds ~7 +/- 2 items (Miller, 1956)\n - CORRECTION from prof: last week I said STM lasts about 2 minutes. That's wrong. Without rehearsal it's about 20 seconds.\n - chunking = grouping items so more fits (phone numbers!)\n\nLong-term memory (LTM): basically unlimited\n - explicit (you can say it out loud):\n     episodic = personal events (your 10th birthday)\n     semantic = facts and general knowledge (Paris is the capital of France)\n - implicit: procedural (riding a bike), priming\n\n!!! Prof: \"The midterm WILL ask you to explain the difference between episodic and semantic memory, with your own example.\" !!!\n\nSerial position effect: remember the first items (primacy) and last items (recency) of a list best\nEbbinghaus forgetting curve: we forget fast at first, then it levels off\nSpacing effect: studying in spread-out sessions beats cramming\n\n(prof's dog ate his reading glasses lol. parking lot B closed next week)","rules":[{"type":"questionCount","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":170},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Saying \"make me a study guide\"","why":"The AI picks the size, and it defaults to a long outline you won't finish reading the night before.","fix":"Be exact: \"5 numbered questions.\"","checks":["questionCount"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 170 words\" and it often lands at 190.","fix":"Ask for about 25% fewer words than your real limit, or set a size it handles better, like \"one sentence per answer.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Answers right under each question","why":"Your eyes jump to the answer before your brain tries. Testing yourself only works if you have to recall it.","fix":"Add: \"Put all the answers together at the end.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Missing what the professor flagged","why":"The AI treats every line of your notes as equally important. It doesn't know which part your professor said is on the exam.","fix":"Tell it: \"One question must be on episodic vs. semantic memory.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Forgetting it has to print","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold headings and asterisks that print as clutter.","fix":"Say where it will be used: \"Plain text I can print, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Letting the AI fill gaps from the internet","why":"AI mixes in facts it already knows, and it can repeat a mistake your notes later corrected. Your exam follows your class, not the internet.","fix":"Add: \"Use only my notes. Where the notes correct something, use the correction.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many questions","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,20}question"]},{"label":"Puts answers at the end","patterns":["answers?.{0,30}(end|bottom|after|separate)","(end|bottom).{0,20}answers?"]},{"label":"Mentions the midterm topic","patterns":["episodic","semantic","midterm topic","professor said"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Says to use only the notes","patterns":["only.{0,25}notes","no outside","don't add","do not add"]}],"hint":"The AI doesn't know it's for self-testing, or which topic your professor flagged. Tell it how many questions, where the answers go, what must be covered, and to stick to your notes.","rubricLabels":["Includes a question about the difference between episodic and semantic memory (the topic the professor said will be on the midterm)","All answers are grouped together after the last question, not placed under each question","Sticks to the notes: adds no facts that aren't in the notes, leaves out the off-topic remarks, and if it mentions how long short-term memory lasts, uses the corrected figure (about 20 seconds, not 2 minutes). Rewording what's in the notes is fine, and the quiz doesn't have to cover every topic"]}