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As of 13 August 2026, AI can predict likely questions in your UK exam.
Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.
Can you do it?
5 minutesto a draft.
30 minutesto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ityou
What the alternative costsNo priced human alternative is provided in the available tool data.
If this goes wrong: you over-revise a predicted topic and neglect material that appears in the exam.
What to actually do
Do it yourself
The route this page recommends
A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the current specification and assessment materials for your exam board, subject, qualification, tier and paper, and save the relevant documents.
- Gather several available past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports, then remove any material that is not for your paper or specification.
- Write a short note listing the topics you have revised, the topics you find difficult and the time remaining before the exam.
- Paste the specification, past-paper extracts, mark schemes, examiner reports and your revision note into a chatbot with the supplied prompt.
- Ask the chatbot to separate evidence from cautious predictions and to produce practice questions that cover both recurring patterns and topics you may otherwise neglect.
- Compare every proposed priority with the current specification and mark schemes, then build your revision plan around full course coverage rather than the prediction list alone.
- Attempt the generated practice questions without the guidance, mark them against the official scheme where possible, and replace any question that does not match the paper's format or assessment objectives.
Prompt
Act as a UK exam revision planner, not a source of leaked or certain exam questions. I am preparing for [exam board], [qualification and subject], [tier or paper], with the exam on [date]. Use only the current specification and the past papers, mark schemes or examiner reports I provide below. Identify the topics and question types that are reasonable revision priorities based on syllabus coverage, recurrence, assessment objectives and gaps in my preparation. Do not claim that any question is likely to appear as a fact, and do not imply access to confidential exam materials. Separate your response into: evidence from the materials, cautious revision priorities, topics I must not neglect, and original practice questions with brief answer guidance. Flag anything you cannot establish from the materials. Here are my materials and current strengths and weaknesses: [paste materials and notes].
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceHand it to a person
The distant thirdA person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot know which questions the exam setter has chosen or identify confidential exam content.
- It turns recurrence in past papers into a prediction, even though a topic can return in a different form or be absent.
- It may misread an outdated specification or mix the content and question style of different UK exam boards.
- It cannot judge your real exam readiness as well as marked work from a teacher who knows your course and common errors.
- A prediction list can narrow your revision too much unless you use the full specification as the boundary.
Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, context depth and stakes of error.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 2 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 9 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT predict what will come up in my exam?
- It can identify topics and question styles that are sensible revision priorities from your specification and past papers. It cannot know the questions selected for your exam, so treat the result as a revision aid rather than a forecast.
- Is it safe to revise only the questions AI predicts?
- No. A prediction can be wrong, and narrowing your revision to it can leave you unprepared for ordinary syllabus content. Use the full current specification first, then use AI to organise practice and identify possible priorities.
- Can AI make likely GCSE exam questions?
- Yes, it can create original practice questions in the style of the materials you provide. Check the subject, tier, exam board, command words and mark allocation against official papers before relying on them.
- How do I get AI to predict exam questions accurately?
- Give it the current specification, relevant past papers, mark schemes, examiner reports and your own weak topics. Ask for evidence and uncertainty separately, and require it to state that it cannot know the actual exam questions.
Nearby answers
Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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