{"id":"study-sat-punctuation-rule-cards","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"examples","track":"study","title":"Make SAT punctuation rule cards from your tutor's notes","free":false,"task":"The SAT Reading and Writing section keeps testing punctuation you get wrong. Make exactly 5 numbered rule cards, each one line in the form 'Mark: rule | example', each under 25 words, plain text. Cover the semicolon and colon your tutor flagged, use only your tutor's notes, and follow her correction about commas.","materialLabel":"Your tutor's notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"SAT TUTORING - Session 4 - Punctuation (with Ms. Adeyemi)\n\nMy mistakes on Practice Test 2: 4 of 6 punctuation questions wrong.\n\nRULES WE COVERED:\n- Period: ends a complete sentence. Ex: \"We missed first period.\"\n- Semicolon: joins two complete sentences that are closely related. Ex: \"The bus was late; we missed first period.\" **flagged, I missed 2 of these**\n- Colon: comes after a complete sentence and introduces a list, explanation or example. Ex: \"She packed one thing: her calculator.\" **flagged, I missed 1**\n- Comma + FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so): joins two complete sentences. Ex: \"The bus was late, so we missed first period.\"\n- Comma alone: I wrote \"a comma can join two complete sentences.\"\n  ** Ms. A correction: NO! That's a comma splice and it's always wrong on the SAT. A comma alone can't join two sentences. **\n- Dash: sets off extra info, like parentheses. Ex: \"My cousin - the one in Ohio - is visiting.\"\n\nMs. A: \"The SAT tests rules, not style. If two choices are both 'correct,' pick the shortest.\"\n\nNext session: verb tense and pronouns. Test date: March 14.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying how many cards","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more cards than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 5 numbered cards.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each card: \"each card under 20 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Not showing the card shape","why":"The AI writes a long grammar guide with headings and several examples per rule.","fix":"Show one: \"Semicolon: joins two related sentences | The bus was late; we missed class.\"","checks":["r0","plainText"]},{"title":"Missing the correction","why":"Your wrong comma rule is still in your notes, right next to the fix.","fix":"Add: \"Use Ms. Adeyemi's correction about commas.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Letting in outside rules","why":"The AI adds apostrophes, quotation marks and style tips you didn't cover.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the rules in my tutor's notes.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many cards","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,25}card"]},{"label":"Names the flagged marks","patterns":["semicolon","colon","flagged"]},{"label":"Shows the card shape","patterns":["\\|","rule.{0,10}example","like ['\"]","format"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["correct","comma splice","comma alone"]},{"label":"Says to use only the material","patterns":["only.{0,30}(notes|material|source|excerpt|text|reading|passage|draft|facts|article|handout|sheet|guide|chapter|data|list)","no outside","don't add","do not add","don't invent","tutor"]}],"hint":"Rule cards work when each is one line you can scan. Show the AI the shape, name the marks you must cover, and point it to your tutor's correction.","rubricLabels":["Includes cards for the semicolon and the colon, and every card is one line in the shape 'Mark: rule | example'","No card says a comma alone can join two complete sentences; if comma use appears, it reflects the correction (a comma alone joining two sentences is a comma splice, or a comma needs a FANBOYS word)","Rules and examples come only from the tutor's notes, with no extra punctuation marks or style advice added"]}