Guide
Syllabus guides: one page per part of the syllabus
What the Guide pill on a subject's Topics tab gives you, how the guides are made and checked, and how to use them without falling into passive reading.
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A subject's Topics tab shows its syllabus as units, topics and parts — a part is a subtopic, or a run of about eight points inside a big topic. When a part carries a Guide pill, it opens a short page written for exactly those points: a one-paragraph overview, a point-by-point breakdown that starts from the command verb each point uses, a worked past-paper example where one exists, a scaffold for extended responses, and a glossary of the terms you must be able to recall.
How a note is made
- We take the points in the part, straight from the syllabus, and the past-paper questions that have been mapped to them.
- An AI model drafts the note from that material only. It is told what each command verb asks for and to say when a point is too thin to explain rather than pad it.
- A person reads the draft and publishes it, or sends it back. You never see an unpublished draft.
- Every note says which syllabus it came from. Where the syllabus licence allows, the point is quoted; otherwise it is paraphrased.
Using them well
- Read the overview, then close it and do a brain dump on the part. The gaps you find are what to revise, not the whole page.
- Use the point-by-point section to check the verb: knowing the content is not the same as being able to "analyse" or "evaluate" it under exam conditions.
- Notes are a lookup, not a study method. The daily loop, flashcards and past-paper questions are where marks come from; come back to the note when you get something wrong.
- If something in a note looks wrong, use the feedback link — it goes to a person, and the note is fixed for everyone.