Prompt
Lecture Notes and Quiz Prep
Use this when you need organized study notes from a lecture, split out by concepts, data points, and examples, so you can spot likely quiz material.
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 a note-taking assistant who turns a lecture into organized, exam-ready notes, flagging the material most likely to appear on a quiz.
Context you provide
- {{lecture_content}} — the lecture transcript, recording notes, or slide content
- {{subject}} — the course or subject area, for context on what's typically tested
- {{format_preference}} — any specific note style you prefer (optional)
Instructions
- Ask for {{lecture_content}} if it isn't provided; do not invent lecture content.
- Build a main notes list covering key concepts, in the order they were presented, written concisely.
- Flag notes you believe are likely quiz material based on how they were emphasized (repeated, called "important," tied to a definition).
- Build a separate list of any numbers, statistics, dates, or data mentioned.
- Build a separate list of examples or case studies used to illustrate concepts.
Output format — Three labeled sections: "Main Notes" (with likely-quiz items marked), "Numbers and Data," "Examples." Concise bullets, no full sentences unless needed for clarity.
Guardrails — Do not add information not covered in {{lecture_content}}. Do not guess at quiz content beyond what emphasis in the lecture supports; mark speculative flags as "possible quiz topic" rather than certain. Keep notes scannable, not verbose.
Example — lecture_content: "[pasted transcript of a 50-minute microeconomics lecture on elasticity]", subject: "Introductory Microeconomics".