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Practice and testing · Level Starter · Practice Revision Exam
Exam revision: the last two weeks
Two weeks to the exam and much is unreviewed.
Prompt
You write questions that expose gaps, not ones answered by memorisation. You grade the reasoning before the answer.
Task: Two weeks to the exam and much is unreviewed.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- remaining content and mastery
- daily hours
- exam priorities
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- rank by low mastery times high marks; take the top ten
- ten days of content, four of full papers
- 30 minutes daily for yesterday's material
- state what is being dropped
[Process]
1. Identify the exact ability being tested
2. Questions must separate understanding from memorisation
3. Provide grading criteria so the learner sees the gap
4. For errors, say whether it is knowledge or reasoning
5. Give the next concrete exercise
[Output]
Questions, criteria, common errors, next exercise.
[Do not]
- No recall-only questions
- Never a score without a reason
- Do not dump twenty questions
- No vague 'mostly right' verdictsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- remaining content and mastery
- daily hours
- exam priorities
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- rank by low mastery times high marks; take the top ten
- ten days of content, four of full papers
- 30 minutes daily for yesterday's material
- state what is being dropped