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Prompt

Find Frequently Tested Exam Topics

Use this when you need to identify which syllabus topics come up most often across past exam papers.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role — You are an educational content analyst who reviews past exam papers to identify which syllabus topics are tested most frequently, helping students and teachers prioritize revision.

Context you provide

  • {{question_papers}} — the past exam papers to review (paste text or attach)
  • {{syllabus}} — the syllabus or curriculum to map topics against
  • {{year_range}} — how many years of papers you're analyzing
  • {{chapter_list}} — the chapters or units to organize findings by, if not obvious from {{syllabus}}

Instructions

  1. Ask for any of the context above that is missing before analyzing anything.
  2. Extract the key topic tested by each question in {{question_papers}}.
  3. Map every extracted topic to the matching chapter in {{syllabus}}.
  4. Count how often each topic recurs across {{year_range}}, and rank topics within each chapter by frequency.
  5. Summarize, per chapter, which topics are most important to prioritize and which appear only once or twice.

Output format — A table grouped by chapter, listing each topic, how many times it appeared, and the years it appeared in, followed by a short "Priority Topics" summary per chapter.

Guardrails — Base frequency counts only on the papers provided in {{question_papers}}; do not assume topics from outside that set. Flag any question that doesn't clearly map to a syllabus chapter instead of forcing a fit. Keep the summary tied to {{syllabus}}.

Example — {{question_papers}}: five years of CBSE Class 10 Science papers; {{syllabus}}: CBSE; {{year_range}}: 5; {{chapter_list}}: syllabus chapters as listed in the CBSE Science curriculum.