Turn a textbook chapter into a one-hour study session
Here's the chapter: {{paste it, or the section headings and key passages}}. Course context: {{what came before, what I'm being assessed on}}. I have {{60}} minutes and {{my current level}}.
Plan the hour as a session, not a reading list.
Start with the three questions the chapter exists to answer — I should be able to attempt them badly before reading anything. Then the reading, split into passes: what to skim, what to read closely, what to skip entirely, with minutes for each.
Build in retrieval: at the {{20}} and {{45}} minute marks, give me questions to answer from memory, closed book. Include one that requires combining two parts of the chapter, not just recalling one.
End with a five-minute close: the three sentences I should be able to write from memory, and the one thing I should flag to ask about because the chapter explains it badly.
Don't summarise the chapter for me. Summaries feel like learning and aren't.
How to use it
The closed-book checkpoints are the whole session. Skipping them turns an hour of study back into an hour of reading.
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