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Input
Drop in your materials
Paste your syllabus, slides, notes, and past papers, or attach supported files (TXT, MD, DOCX, PPTX, PDF). We read the pile.
Study the right things.
Focus on higher-priority topics.
Paste your syllabus, slides, and past papers. We score every topic — how often it shows up, how much it's worth, how shaky you are on it — then tell you exactly what to grind and what to leave for later.
Free to try. No card.·Turn your ladder into a focused next study session.
Sample output
- John Abbott College
- McGill University
- University of Toronto
Works with whatever your prof sent
SyllabusLecture slidesPast papersTextbook PDFs
Three steps.
Then you actually study.
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Scan
We check what repeats
Topics are cross-referenced against past exam patterns, syllabus weight, and recency.
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Output
Get your triage ladder
A ranked list of exactly what to study. Critical first. Skim later. Skip last.
Not just a list. A focused next session.
Tell ExamHack how much time you have right now. You get a short focus plan: which topics to study first, which to review, and which to come back to. A recommendation, not a guarantee.
BIO 201 — Midterm · 60 min focus session
#0125m
Cellular respiration · ETC and ATP yieldStudy
High priority based on your current ladder.#0220m
Enzyme kinetics · Michaelis-MentenStudy
Lower confidence makes this worth focused time.#0315m
Photosynthesis · light vs dark reactionsReview
High priority — quick review to keep it fresh.Lower priority for this session based on current evidence: Glycolysis, Krebs cycle. Come back after the focus session if you still have time.
Choose 30, 60, or 120 minutes
Get recommended next actions from your current priority ladder. Built from evidence signals and your confidence.
Short-session focus
When the exam is close, lean on the highest-priority topics first. Don't try to cover everything.
A scoring model, not a summary.
Every topic gets a score based on exam frequency, syllabus weight, and your confidence rating. General AI can summarize your notes. ExamHack tells you which topics to study first, which to skim, and which to leave for later — with evidence for every ranking.
- Specific topic names, not vague categories
- Backed by counts from your materials and past papers
- A real lower-priority list, so you spend time where it actually matters.
Why not just ask ChatGPT?
You can. Here is what changes when the workflow is built around exam triage instead of open-ended chat.
Handle slides, past papers, and syllabus together
General AI chat
Depends on setup and prompts
ExamHack
One course workspace. The materials stay connected.
Rank topics by exam relevance
General AI chat
You ask for analysis manually
ExamHack
Built-in scoring: frequency, weight, recency, and confidence
Tell you what's lower priority right now
General AI chat
Often summarizes everything
ExamHack
Explicit lower-priority list with reasons
Turn ranking into a focused next session
General AI chat
Usually generic study advice
ExamHack
Focus plan: choose your time, get next actions
Not a productivity hack. A scoring model grounded in learning research.
ExamHack borrows from three boring but useful ideas: past exams reveal patterns, retrieval beats re-reading, and time limits make prioritization matter.
Past exams show structure
Prior exams reveal recurring topic types, question formats, and marking habits. A better signal than guessing from page count alone.
Educational measurement and test design research.
Retrieval beats re-reading
Testing yourself outperforms passive review because the act of retrieval strengthens memory.
Roediger and Karpicke, Psychological Science, 2006.
Focus beats uniform coverage
When time is limited, selective effort on high-yield topics is more useful than treating every reading as equal.
Research on desirable difficulties and effortful practice.
Questions you are actually asking.
Paste a YouTube, Panopto, or transcript link. We pull the usable text and rank it like the rest of your material.
Try it on your next exam.
Upload your materials. Get a ranked ladder in about 90 seconds. Then turn it into a focused next study session.