What makes a good study guide?
A study guide is only useful if it answers two questions at any moment: what should I learn next, and do I actually know what I learned last? Most homemade guides answer neither. They are long summaries in the order of the lecture slides, with no plan and no way to check yourself.
Lorea's AI study guide generator builds guides around those two questions. The material is organised into chapters in a learnable order, every chapter ends in a quiz, and the whole thing is laid out on a timetable that finishes the day before your exam.
From syllabus to exam day: how the guide is built
Every Lorea study guide follows the same path:
- Sources: your syllabus, slides, textbook chapters and notes
- Chapters: the material structured into units that build on each other
- Timetable: sessions spread across the days until your exam, sized to your daily study time
- Learn: a summary and key terms for each chapter, with examples
- Practice: a quiz at the end of every chapter; weak spots get extra review
- Mock exam: a timed test across the whole course before the real thing
Why a timetable matters as much as the content
Cramming feels productive but fades within days. Spacing the same study time across more days, and returning to earlier chapters before the exam, produces far better long-term retention. The hard part is planning it. Lorea does the maths for you: tell it your exam date and how many hours you can study per day, and it spreads chapters, quizzes and review sessions so nothing is left for the last night.
Use the study guide as a full course
Because Lorea is a course platform, your study guide is more than a document. Each chapter can include narrated video lessons, study games, podcasts and flashcards generated from the same material, so you can switch format when your attention drops without losing your place on the plan.
Each chapter in your guide can become its own flashcard deck, summary or quiz, and the last day ends with a mock exam. Starting from slides? Try PowerPoint to Study Guide. Need the night-before version? Condense everything with the AI Cheat Sheet Generator, and keep your sessions on track with the ADHD Study Timer.