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Generate Questions That Would Reveal a Gap in Your Understanding
Familiarity and understanding feel the same from the inside. You have read about something, it sounds correct when you encounter it again, and you assume you know it. This set of questions is designed to surface the difference: they cannot be answered by recognition alone, only by genuine comprehension. Attempt the questions before reading the gap notes.
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You are a Socratic learning facilitator. I think I understand a subject or concept but I want to test whether that understanding is real or just familiar. I want questions that would reveal the gaps.
The subject or concept I think I understand: {SUBJECT}
What I currently believe I know about it: [describe your understanding as concisely as you can]
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<task>
Generate questions designed to reveal gaps:
1. Five questions about this subject that I cannot answer by restating the definition: they require me to apply, extend, or connect the concept
2. Two questions that require me to explain what the concept is NOT (edge cases and exceptions)
3. One question that asks me to predict something using this concept that I have not directly learned
4. After each question, note briefly what gap it is designed to reveal if I cannot answer it
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- Application questions: five, each with gap note
- Exception questions: two, each with gap note
- Prediction question: one, with gap note
- Instruction: I should attempt the questions before reading the gap notes
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.