In the past, preparing for exams often meant listening to all lectures, noting everything, reading writing on repeat, flipping through notes, rereading all that I had and trying to guess and predict what actually matters. Through my Bachelor and Masters and with ChatGPT subscription and availability I experimented a bit to support my learning.
What suprised me the most and helped in my preparations and score maximisations was how effective this tool was for active learning, recreating mock exams and sending questions that were similar and good preperation for the exams. For example as I am an active learner I asked ChatGPT to turn my course reading into Socratic-style questions. Instead of constant repetitions of notes and definition learning which I always found very boring I found a way of interactive revision and learning through the modelling the scenario-based prompts or application questions. This allowed me to verify my current knowledge within minutes and focusing on the things I yet had to learn.
After some time of creating questions, redoing exams, and basically working on that asking the infinite source of knowledge and possibilities which was ChatGPT, and learning while doing, which was for me the best as I was learning, verifying my knowledge and also enjoying the process at the same time I found the best way to study, and nail my exams, by asking specific prompts and tasks that were required to do well on the exams.
Based on my experience I would suggest for beginners, to always upload all the files that you acquire to ChatGPT project, all the guidelines, exam rules and formats, as well as practice question and go week by week, by asking about summaries, practice questions, concept clarifications and just interacting asking, answering, verifying your answers, and treating it a bit as a game. The next thing once you do it for a while I suggest storing and tracking your progress, and once you have completed all weeks and materials I would just grind practice mock exams created by gen AI all the time, and then the exams are no longer stressful nor hard.
Picture taken from https://www.thp.co.uk/what-is-chat-gpt/ by Ben Locker
Although It looks so perfect at a first sigh, AI tools are not perfect. They sometimes hallucinate or give simplified answers, or do not exactly understand what you want. That’s why it is important to do not rely blindly on them and also put thought into what is happening. I use them as a study partner or additional teacher rather that a replacement for my own thinking. The combination of my own judgement and AI assistance feels like the future of learning and a key shift in learning habits.
I hope this will help you in your learning improvement and productivity and let me know what you think about this !!!
