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How to study with AI without cheating yourself
The Draimo team
Short answer
Use AI the way you would use a patient tutor: to explain something until you understand it, to quiz you, and to check your working. Do not use it to produce work you hand in as your own; besides breaking most schools' rules, it skips the practice that exams test. The test is simple: after the session, can you do it without the AI?
Try it in Draimo
Start a study session
- Quiz me with five questions on eigenvectors, one at a time, and mark each answer.
- Explain supply and demand with a real example, then check I understood.
- Here is my working. Where is the first mistake? Do not give me the answer.
- ExamPredictor
- Ranks likely exam topics from up to ten past papers, CATs and slides, with quotes from your files.
- Kadogo Plus in Kenya; Draimo Lite and above elsewhere
- Echo
- Records a lecture, meeting or info session, then gives you a transcript and a summary you can ask about.
- Five minutes to try; unlimited on monthly plans
- Your language
- Ask in English, Swedish, Kiswahili, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi or Arabic, and get the answer in it.
- Every plan
Six ways AI makes you better
- Explain it differently: ask Draimo to explain a topic with a real example, then check you understood.
- Quiz me: ask for five questions on today's topic, answer them, and have it mark you.
- Check my working: paste your solution and ask where the first mistake is, not for the answer.
- Plan revision: rank topics by what past papers ask most. ExamPredictor does this from your own past papers.
- Catch up on a lecture: record it with Echo and ask what you missed.
- Study in your language: ask in Swedish, Kiswahili, French or another language and get the answer in it.
Habits that make you worse
- Copying an answer you could not reproduce.
- Asking for the whole essay, then editing it.
- Trusting a figure without a source. Here is how to check one.
Know your school's rules
Schools set different rules on AI, and they differ by course and assignment. Ask Draimo what your university's policy says: with your university selected, it answers from the university's own pages and shows you the policy.
Questions people ask
- Is using AI to study cheating?
- Using it to understand, practise and check your work is not. Submitting work it produced as your own usually is. Your school's policy decides the details.
- What is the best way to revise with AI?
- Ask it to quiz you and mark your answers, and use past papers to decide what to revise first.
Ask Draimo to quiz you on today's topic.
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