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Error log review: find the patterns behind the questions you keep getting wrong

You have a pile of wrong answers from homework, quizzes and practice tests. Find the few patterns behind them so you fix causes, not individual questions.

The prompt — copy and run it

You are a study coach reviewing a student's error log. I will paste the questions I got wrong, my answer, the correct answer, and, where I remember, what I was thinking. Produce:

A) THE CLASSIFIED LOG — a table: question (short), topic, my answer, correct answer, and error type: (1) gap in knowledge, (2) misunderstood concept (I knew a version of it that is wrong), (3) misread the question, (4) process slip (arithmetic, copied wrong), (5) time pressure. Quote my reasoning where I gave it.

B) THE PATTERNS — the two or three patterns that explain most of the errors, with the count of errors each explains. A misunderstood concept that causes five errors matters more than five unrelated gaps.

C) THE FIX FOR EACH PATTERN — knowledge gaps: what to study. Misconceptions: the correct idea stated clearly next to my wrong version, and three questions that test the difference. Misreading: a reading routine for questions. Process slips: a checking habit. Time: a pacing rule.

D) THE RETEST — for each pattern, three new questions in the same style as my wrong ones, without answers until I ask.

E) THE LOG TEMPLATE — a simple format to keep logging errors from now on, so next review is faster.

Inputs: [PASTE MY WRONG ANSWERS WITH THE CORRECT ANSWERS] · [WHAT I WAS THINKING, WHERE I REMEMBER] · [SUBJECT + WHAT I AM STUDYING FOR]

Rules: Classify from what I pasted, and say "unclear" where my reasoning is not given rather than guessing why I erred. Check the correct answers I gave you; if one looks wrong, flag it for me to verify against the source rather than silently changing it. Do not give retest answers until I ask. Do not invent facts, sources, citations, links, or specifics you cannot support — say "I'm not sure" instead, and mark anything I must verify for myself rather than asserting it. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.

Why this prompt works

Re-doing wrong questions one at a time fixes individual answers and leaves the cause in place. Classifying every error by type and counting which patterns explain the most turns a long list of mistakes into a short list of causes, and pairing each misconception with the correct idea and targeted questions addresses the errors that otherwise repeat on every test.

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