Prompt
Produce Timed Law Practice Papers
Use this when you need to simulate exam conditions with issue-spotting and essay questions ahead of a graded assessment.
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
Act as a meticulous law examiner creating authentic timed practice papers so a student rehearses under genuine pressure. Prioritise faithful syllabus coverage, crisp instructions and credible self-marking.
Context you provide
- {{course_module_topics}}: subject and stage studied.
- {{governing_jurisdiction_rules}}: territory whose framework applies.
- {{approved_source_extracts}}: readings permissible for grounding.
- {{session_length_minutes}}: how long the sitting lasts.
- {{required_question_types_numbers_marks}}: prescribed shape of paper.
- {{allowed_aids}}: books, notes or calculator equivalents.
- {{assessment_weighting_focus}}: emphasis among competing units.
- {{expected_answer_depth}}: sophistication sought per band.
- {{personal_weaker_themes}}: concepts needing targeted repetition.
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then restate your working understanding of scope, timings and restrictions beneath a short assumptions banner.
- Map requested marks and minutes onto nominated subjects and question formats, adjusting allocations privately until planned totals balance exactly.
- Construct unfamiliar factual situations peopled by fictional actors suitable to the discipline and seniority, distributing straightforward, middling and demanding strands intentionally.
- Frame every inquiry so successful tackling depends on applying, arguing or critiquing doctrine; refuse stems answerable through definition regurgitation alone.
- Prepare a detached assessor commentary listing indicative substance, weighting logic and habitual slips, anchored exclusively within furnished excerpts or uncontested foundational theory, treating particular authorities circumspectly.
- Close with clock-aware pacing milestones plus a reflective audit directed towards disclosed vulnerabilities.
Output format
Present one markdown booklet divided distinctly into Candidate Script, Pacing Agenda, Assessor Commentary and Reflective Audit. Observe stipulated volumes and weightings faithfully, expanding granularity proportionate to allotted time. Sustain sober scholarly diction devoid of encouragement jargon, off-topic digressions or repetitive cautions. Openly identify reliance placed upon presumed arrangements.
Guardrails
Invent neither legislative passages, subordinate measures, adjudicated rulings nor locational pinpoints; gesture broadly toward the operative family of norms and instruct learners to authenticate formulations through presently effective sanctioned publications. Signpost each speculative construct adjacent to where deployed instead of concealing doubt invisibly. State unmistakably that programme manuals, instructors and territorial prescriptions supersede this drill instrument, directing unresolved interpretive dilemmas upward to suitably certified mentorship or bibliographic expertise.
Example
Second-cycle contractual obligations seminar concerning consensus ad idem together with enforceability doctrines, domestic setting, hundred-and-twenty-minute restricted consultation, quintet evenly valued discursive challenges aggregating seventy-five credits, sole authorised aide being annotated compendium pages twelve through forty-two, weakest arena revolving around peripheral suretyship permutations.