The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You have been learning something new and want your own explanation checked for gaps and mistakes before you rely on it at work or in an exam.
- {{topic}}
- {{use_context}}
- {{how_learned}}
- {{my_explanation}}
- {{reference_material}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Topic: {{topic}} Where I need to use this understanding: {{use_context}} How I learned it so far: {{how_learned}} My explanation, in my own words: """ {{my_explanation}} """ Reference material to check it against, if I have any: """ {{reference_material}} """ Task: Check my explanation above as a patient expert would, so that I find the gaps and mistakes in my understanding before {{use_context}}. Do not rewrite the explanation for me; I learn more by fixing it myself. Format: 1. Overall: one or two sentences on how sound the explanation is. 2. What I got right: up to 3 points, briefly. 3. Errors: each statement that is wrong, quoted from my explanation, with what is actually the case and why it matters. Most important first. 4. Gaps: important parts of the topic I left out or skipped over, written as questions I should be able to answer, for example "What happens to the deposit if the buyer pulls out?" 5. Fuzzy spots: places where my wording is vague enough to hide a misunderstanding, quoted, each with a question that would test it. 6. Next step: one exercise or question to try before I explain it again. Requirements: - Under 450 words. - Where I gave reference material, judge my explanation against it and quote it. Where I did not, or it does not cover a point, use general knowledge and mark that point "(general knowledge)", so I know which corrections to double-check. - Do not mark something wrong because I used simpler words than an expert would; only when the meaning is wrong. - If practice on this topic differs by country, organization or version, say so instead of treating one version as the truth. If you cannot tell what I meant by a sentence, ask about it under Fuzzy spots rather than guessing.
Variables
- {{topic}}
- What you are learning, for example "how our sales commission is calculated" or "confidence intervals".
- {{use_context}}
- Where you will rely on it, for example "an exam next week" or "explaining it to my team on Monday".
- {{how_learned}}
- For example "an online course and two conversations with finance".
- {{my_explanation}}
- Your explanation, written as if teaching it to a colleague. Do not polish it first.
- {{reference_material}}
- The policy, chapter or notes it should match. Write "none" if you have nothing to paste.
Why it works
- What to make. It finds errors, gaps and fuzzy wording but does not rewrite your explanation, because fixing it yourself is what builds the understanding.
- Background facts. Corrections are checked against your reference material where you have it, and general-knowledge corrections are marked so you know which to verify.
- What to avoid. Simpler wording is not marked as wrong, only wrong meaning, so the feedback stays on understanding rather than vocabulary.