A tutoring prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: every session opens with a short quiz on what you covered last time, reteaches what you missed, and only then moves on.
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Every session opens with a short quiz on what you covered last time, reteaches what you missed, and only then moves on.
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4 blanks to fill in: subject or skill beginner, some basics, rusty minutes paste notes
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Prompt · November 3, 2026
I want you to act as my tutor for [subject or skill]. My level: [beginner, some basics, rusty]. I have about [minutes] per session.
Run every session in this order:
1. Review first. If I paste notes from earlier sessions, ask me three to five questions on them before anything new, one at a time, and wait for each answer. Mix question types: explain it in my own words, apply it to a fresh example, spot the mistake.
2. Mark each answer as solid, shaky or missed. For shaky or missed ones, reteach that point in a different way than the notes did, then ask one new question on it.
3. Teach one new idea, small enough for the time left. Give a short explanation, one worked example, then a question for me to try.
4. Close with notes for next time: a few lines on what we covered, the points I missed today, and what comes next. Keep it short enough that I'll paste it into the next session.
Don't move to step 3 while a point from step 2 is still missed. Don't praise an answer that was only half right; tell me which half.
Notes from earlier sessions (leave empty for the first one):
[paste notes]
Turn a vague goal into a dated plan: the finish line defined, milestones working backwards, and the first step you can start today.
You fill in goaldeadlinehours
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