Exam Study Prompt: Practice Test and Mistake Log From Notes

Prompt

Act as a university exam prep tutor who builds practice tests from a student's own notes and uses retrieval practice and mistake logs instead of rereading.

Inputs:
- Course name and level: [Course]
- Exam format, length, and allowed materials: [ExamFormat]
- Exam date and today's date: [ExamDate]
- Topics the exam covers, from the syllabus or review sheet: [TopicsList]
- My notes for those topics, pasted as written: [MyNotes]
- Topics I keep getting wrong and why I think that happens: [WeakSpots]
- How much time I can study each day: [DailyStudyTime]

Generate:
1. A topic confidence map: each topic in TopicsList rated covered, thin, or missing in MyNotes, with the WeakSpots topics marked.
2. A practice test of 10 to 12 questions that mirrors ExamFormat (same question types and point weight), drawn only from MyNotes, with at least half of the questions on WeakSpots.
3. An answer key that shows the reasoning step by step for each practice test question, and names the note or topic it comes from.
4. A mistake log table I can fill in after taking the practice test: question, my answer, error type (concept, calculation, misread, memory), and the fix.
5. A day by day review plan from today to ExamDate that fits DailyStudyTime, spacing each topic out, with a second practice test two days before the exam.
6. A one page night before sheet: formulas, definitions, and the three traps most likely to cost points, taken from WeakSpots.
7. A gaps list of topics in TopicsList that MyNotes does not cover, so I can check the textbook or ask the instructor.

Rules:
- Wait for me to answer the practice test before showing the answer key if I say "quiz me".
- Do not add content from outside MyNotes without labeling it [CHECK IN TEXTBOOK].

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your own course notes, exam format, and weak topics. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Check every answer key item against your textbook or lecture slides, and follow your school's rules on AI use.

Generated Output

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Exam Study Prompt: Practice Test and Mistake Log From Notes - Result

Examples

Example Input

Course: Intro Microeconomics (ECON 101), first year university.
ExamFormat: 75 minute midterm. 20 multiple choice (40 points), 3 short calculation problems (60 points). Calculator allowed, no notes.
ExamDate: Thursday, 6 days from today.
TopicsList: supply and demand shifts, price elasticity of demand, consumer and producer surplus, price ceilings and floors, total revenue and elasticity.
MyNotes: Elasticity = % change in Qd / % change in P, use absolute value, above 1 = elastic. Shift = non price factor (income, price of related goods, tastes). Movement = price change of the good itself. Consumer surplus = area under demand above price, triangle 1/2 x base x height. Ceiling below equilibrium causes shortage. Floor above equilibrium causes surplus. Inelastic demand: raise price, revenue goes up.
WeakSpots: I mix up shifts and movements. I lose points on surplus triangles because I use the wrong height.
DailyStudyTime: 60 minutes on weekdays, 2 hours Saturday.

Example Output

1. TOPIC CONFIDENCE MAP
| Topic | In my notes | Flag |
| Supply and demand shifts | Covered | WEAK SPOT |
| Price elasticity of demand | Covered | |
| Consumer and producer surplus | Consumer covered, producer thin | WEAK SPOT |
| Price ceilings and floors | Covered | |
| Total revenue and elasticity | Inelastic case only, elastic case thin | |

2. PRACTICE TEST (mirrors 20 MC + 3 calculation)
MC1. The price of coffee rises. What happens in the tea market (a substitute)? a) movement along tea demand b) tea demand shifts right c) tea demand shifts left d) no change
MC2. Price rises 10% and quantity demanded falls 20%. Demand is: a) inelastic, 0.5 b) unit elastic c) elastic, 2 d) perfectly inelastic
MC3. A binding price ceiling set below equilibrium causes: a) surplus b) shortage c) no effect d) higher quantity supplied
MC4. Demand is inelastic. The firm raises its price. Total revenue: a) rises b) falls c) stays the same
MC5. The price of coffee itself rises. In the coffee market this is: a) a shift of demand b) a movement along demand
Calc 1. Demand is P = 100 - 2Q. Price is 40. Find quantity demanded and consumer surplus.
Calc 2. Price falls from 20 to 18 and quantity demanded rises from 50 to 60. Find the elasticity (simple percent change) and say elastic or inelastic.

3. ANSWER KEY
MC1: b. Coffee's price is a non price factor for tea, so tea demand shifts right. (Notes: shift = price of related goods)
MC2: c. 20% / 10% = 2, above 1 so elastic. (Notes: elasticity)
MC3: b. Ceiling below equilibrium: quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied. (Notes: ceilings)
MC4: a. Inelastic demand: raise price, revenue goes up. (Notes: total revenue)
MC5: b. The good's own price changed, so it is a movement. (Notes: movement)
Calc 1: 40 = 100 - 2Q, so Q = 30. Height = 100 - 40 = 60 (from the demand intercept down to the price, not to zero). CS = 1/2 x 30 x 60 = 900.
Calc 2: %change Q = 10/50 = 20%. %change P = 2/20 = 10%. Elasticity = 2, elastic.

4. MISTAKE LOG
| Question | My answer | Error type | Fix |
| | | concept / calculation / misread / memory | |

5. REVIEW PLAN (60 min weekdays, 2 h Saturday)
Day 1: Shifts vs movements, 15 flash questions, then MC1 and MC5 again.
Day 2: Surplus triangles, 5 graphs, say the height out loud each time.
Day 3 (Saturday): Elasticity and total revenue, then a full timed practice test.
Day 4: Ceilings and floors, redo every mistake log row.
Day 5: Second practice test, 75 minutes, no notes.
Day 6: Night before sheet only, sleep.

6. NIGHT BEFORE SHEET
Elasticity = %change Qd / %change P, absolute value, above 1 = elastic.
CS height = demand intercept minus price.
Traps: calling a related good's price change a movement; measuring triangle height from zero; forgetting that elastic demand flips the revenue rule.

7. GAPS
Producer surplus and the elastic case for total revenue are thin in your notes. [CHECK IN TEXTBOOK]