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
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
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
- Ask for any of the context above that is missing before analyzing anything.
- Extract the key topic tested by each question in {{question_papers}}.
- Map every extracted topic to the matching chapter in {{syllabus}}.
- Count how often each topic recurs across {{year_range}}, and rank topics within each chapter by frequency.
- 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.