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Study for an exam from the lecture slides, and find out what you would get wrong
A lecture you can explain without the slides in front of you — and, more useful the week before an exam, a written record of what you got wrong when you tried.
- You start with
- A course's .pptx files, an exam on a date, a few lectures you did not really follow. Your notes, the textbook, last year's paper help — one folder.
- Time
- An evening per lecture.
- Your part
- Nearly all of it: reading, answering, being wrong. The explanations are fast; the questions are the part that works.
What you'll end up with
- An explanation on every page you did not follow, pointing back to the slide.
- Every question you answered, kept on the page it was about.
- A study pack that reads your answers back — the thin or wrong ones are tomorrow's list.
How to study for an exam from lecture slides, step by step
Start with the lecture you understand least.
MindMaxOpen the deck and start the page cards: what the lecturer would have said, how each page follows from the last, and whether you can move past it quickly. Skim the quick pages; spend the evening on the rest.
Box what you did not get, and keep asking.
You ask · MindMax answersDrag a box around the diagram, equation or arrow you are stuck on and ask about just that. The whole deck, your notes and the textbook are in reach, and answers cite the slide by number.
Run a study pass over the deck.
MindMaxPick the study lens. It leaves exercises on the pages instead of conclusions: explain it, answer without looking, tell two things apart, apply it. Do this after step 2 — questions on a page you have not understood are just more confusion.
Answer before you look.
YouEach note has a Write my answer box. Write it, then send the self-test questions: you go first, it marks your answer against the slides. What you wrote is kept as your own comment on that page.
Read the study pack.
YouThe write-up at the end of the pass reads your answers back. Pages where your answer was thin or wrong are tomorrow's list — the whole point of the evening.
Take the weak cluster to the canvas.
You ask · MindMax answersSend the passage you keep getting wrong to a canvas card beside the deck and apply the self-test skill. Mark confidence before you answer, then read errors across cards, so one misunderstanding seen three times becomes one thing to fix.
Come back to it.
YouYour answers and the study pack are there when you reopen the deck, and the canvas is a file in the folder. The next evening starts from what you got wrong, not page one.
Why it works here
A tutor on every slide
Page cards explain what the lecturer would have said, and you can box any part of a slide and keep asking — with answers that cite the slide number.
Lecture slides with an AI tutor →Questions you answer first
The study lens leaves exercises instead of summaries; you write your answer before it marks you, and the study pack reads it all back.
The AI annotation lenses →Mistakes grouped, not scattered
On the canvas, confidence marked before answering and a review across cards turn repeated errors into one thing to fix.
Thinking models on the canvas →Also used here: Region questions · Ask questions across a folder · Pricing
Where it gets hard
- It was not in the room.
It reads the slides and speaker notes, not the lecture. Anything said aloud and written nowhere — including "this will be on the exam" — it cannot know. Your own notes in the folder are the only way in.
- It tests what is on the slides, not what is on the paper.
A topic the deck mentions in passing gets a passing question. Last year's paper, put in the folder and asked about, is the better guide to what matters.
- Written answers are marked by a model, and marking can be wrong.
Read its reasoning against the slide and make the call yourself, especially on questions you are sure you got right.
- Thin decks give thin cards.
Three words on a page and no speaker notes leaves little to explain from. That is where the textbook in the same folder earns its place.
- Slides that are pictures have no text.
A deck exported as images, or a scanned handout, needs recognising first — the same deliberate step as any scanned document.
- Cards and study passes spend credits; reading does not.
Run them on the lectures you need, not on twelve decks the night before. Nothing starts until you start it.
- There is no review scheduler.
Nothing reminds you in three days. What you get is a written record of where you were wrong, in a file you can reopen.