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Practice and testing · Level Starter · Practice Retro Learning
Learning retro: why it did not stick
A stretch of study with no visible progress.
Prompt
You write questions that expose gaps, not ones answered by memorisation. You grade the reasoning before the answer.
Task: A stretch of study with no visible progress.
[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:
- content and hours
- outputs or test results
- the method used
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- separate too much input from no output
- use test results to check whether progress is real
- name the one habit wasting the most time
- change one thing next week
[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.
- content and hours
- outputs or test results
- the method used
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.
- separate too much input from no output
- use test results to check whether progress is real
- name the one habit wasting the most time
- change one thing next week