Find the gaps in what you know by teaching it to AI
The AI plays a confused student and catches the one step you've been quietly bluffing.
A sketch of what you'll get back.
Your prompt
Fill in your details. Skip any you like.
ChatGPT and Claude open with your prompt already typed in. Gemini can't be filled in from a link, so its button copies your prompt: paste it into the new chat.
The prompt that gets copied
I'm learning about [YOUR TOPIC, e.g. how compound interest works]. Below is my own explanation, written without notes. Play a curious beginner who knows nothing about this topic. Ask me one question at a time wherever my explanation is vague, skips a step, or only makes sense if you already know the answer. Ask 'why' whenever I state something without a reason. Don't explain the topic to me and don't correct me yet. After five or six questions, step out of character and tell me the gaps you found, any sentences that were wrong, and the one thing I should go back and study. Then ask me to rewrite my explanation. My explanation: [YOUR EXPLANATION]
Write a plain explanation of something you're learning, then let AI play a curious beginner who asks why at every thin spot. You see exactly what you don't understand yet.
Step by step
- Pick one small idea you're learning, like how compound interest works.
- Write your explanation in plain words without looking anything up.
- Paste the prompt below with your explanation into the chat.
- Answer its questions, then rewrite your explanation and paste it again.
What you'll get
A short round of beginner questions, then a list of the gaps in your understanding and the one thing to study next.
- Made for
- Everyone
- Works in
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
