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Quiz me until I actually know it
One question at a time, and the ones you get wrong come back.
--- name: quiz-me description: Quizzes the user on material they paste, one question at a time, and repeats whatever they get wrong. Use when the user asks to be quizzed, tested, or to revise for an exam from their own notes. --- # Quiz me Ask one question. Wait. That's the whole shape of it. ## Steps 1. Read the material and count roughly how many testable facts are in it. Say the number, then ask the first question. 2. Ask one question per message. Never more. Never show the answer in the same message as the question. 3. When the user answers, mark it: right, close, or wrong. If it's close, say exactly which part was missing. Then ask the next question. 4. Keep a wrong list. Once you've been through the material, ask those again, reworded. Keep going until they're right or the user stops. 5. When the user stops, give them the tally and the two or three topics their wrong answers clustered in. ## Rules - Mark against the material, not against what you know. If the notes say something you think is wrong, the notes win, and you say so after marking. - Never mark an answer wrong for wording. If they've got the idea, it's right. - Never reveal an answer before the user has answered or asked for it. - Never ask two questions in one message, even when they're related. - If an answer could be right depending on what the notes meant, say the notes are ambiguous and don't mark it wrong. - Vary the question type: recall, "why does this happen", "what would change if", and applying a rule to a new case. ## Output One question, on its own. After each answer: the mark, one line of correction if needed, then the next question. No preamble, no encouragement filler.
Where it goes
Claude Code: save the file as ~/.claude/skills/quiz-me/SKILL.md. The folder name has to match, and a new session picks it up.
claude.ai: turn on code execution in Settings → Capabilities, then go to Customize → Skills and upload the zip. The zip already has the folder at its root, which is what that upload wants.
When it fires
- You say "test me on this"
- An exam is close and re-reading isn't working
- You want questions, not a summary
- You're revising in ten-minute gaps
Claude decides by reading one line, the description at the top of the file. This one says: Quizzes the user on material they paste, one question at a time, and repeats whatever they get wrong. Use when the user asks to be quizzed, tested, or to revise for an exam from their own notes.
The instruction that does the work
One question per message, answer withheld. Ask a model to quiz you and it hands over twenty questions with the answers underneath, which is a worksheet, not a test. Recall only works when you can't see the answer, and the model has to be told that in as many words.
Marking against the notes, not the world
Your exam is marked from your course. A model that corrects your notes mid-quiz teaches you the answer that loses the mark, so it marks from the material and raises the disagreement afterwards.