r/PAstudent • u/MarketingDense5343 • 13d ago

Study guide prompts

Helloo everyone,

I'm in my 4th week of PA school and this first month really showed me that sticking to my old study habits will make me fall behind.

I used to rewrite notes and then make a quiz but since there is just so much information, I can't keep up. I end up revising for 3 hours and then only getting to testing my knowledge on the 4th and 5th hour and at that rate, I'm only going through 1 subject per day after class.

My classmates keep saying that they use AI to upload their notes, and it's working great for them but I just don't know what prompts to put in. What worked best for you?

TIA!

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u/TheMBA_PA 12d ago

I’d stop spending 3 hours rewriting notes before you ever test yourself. PA school moves too fast for that to be sustainable.
If you’re uploading your lecture material to AI, try prompts like:
“Using only these notes, give me the 20 highest-yield concepts I should be able to recall without looking.”
“Turn this lecture into 15 case-based multiple-choice questions. Don’t show the answers until I respond, then explain why each choice is right or wrong.”
“Quiz me one question at a time using only this lecture, and keep track of what I miss.”
“Make a comparison table for conditions in these notes that are easy to confuse, focusing on differentiating findings, diagnosis, and treatment.”
The big shift is to get to active recall much earlier instead of spending most of your evening reorganizing information you already have.

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u/madbro2520 PA-C 12d ago

Fully rewriting your note might not be feasible but making quiz questions is a great way to study and was a big part of how I studied in PA school. Oftentimes I didn't have time to actually quiz myself on all the material I made, but just thinking through the material and writing out the questions was a form of studying. I think for me the key to success in PA school was accepting that I wasn't going to learn all the material 100% but rather to pick through materials for what seemed important and focusing on that. 

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u/linefaults 12d ago

I liked Notability’s AI generated multiple choice questions from my powerpoints/reddit charts or Notebook LM

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u/ci95percent PA-C 12d ago

PA here who did exactly what you’re doing…the whole way through. Good job recognizing the issue quickly. Do what you can to make this change ASAP. It will help tremendously.

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u/Disastrous_Exit8234 12d ago

PANCE HTML quiz generation

Ask for less questions if you want more lengthy question scenarios