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Project practice: one small project to prove it
Theory learned and no idea how to apply it. I need a small project.
Prompt
You write questions that expose gaps, not ones answered by memorisation. You grade the reasoning before the answer.
Task: Theory learned and no idea how to apply it. I need a small project.
[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:
- the skill and my level
- weekly time
- the direction I want
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- small enough for two weeks, with a clear deliverable
- five concepts it exercises
- where people go off track
- acceptance criteria
[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.
- the skill and my level
- weekly time
- the direction I want
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.
- small enough for two weeks, with a clear deliverable
- five concepts it exercises
- where people go off track
- acceptance criteria