How to ask an AI tutor better study questions
The AI tutor answers only from your material — no invented facts. The trick is asking questions you can actually study from.
The AI tutor answers only from your material — no invented facts from the open internet. That constraint is the feature: it behaves like a study partner who has actually read your slides, not a general chatbot guessing. But you still get out what you put in, and the quality of your questions decides the quality of your revision.
Here is how to prompt it so the answers are things you can actually study from.
Weak questions vs. strong questions
A vague prompt gets a vague answer. Specific, exam-shaped prompts get answers you can revise from directly.
- Weak: "explain photosynthesis."
- Strong: "explain the light phase like I’m 15."
- Strong: "what are three likely exam questions from section 2?"
- Strong: "compare what lecture 3 and the textbook say about X."
Chat across a whole course
Group related documents into a Course and chat with all of them at once. Cross-referencing is where a tutor saves the most time: "where do these two files disagree?" or "which topics appear in both the lecture and the past paper?" surfaces connections you would spend an evening finding by hand.
Frequently asked questions
Does the AI tutor make things up?
It is grounded in your uploaded material and answers from that, rather than inventing facts from the open web — so answers reflect your actual course content.
Can it use several documents at once?
Yes. Group documents into a Course and the tutor can answer across all of them, which is ideal for cross-referencing lectures, slides and past papers.
What are good prompts for exam prep?
Ask for likely exam questions from a section, explanations at a simpler level, comparisons between sources, or to be quizzed and graded.