Turn ChatGPT or Gemini Into a Free Board Exam Tutor: Prompts for Class 10 and 12

Maybe someone at home has already decided how your boards will go. Fine. Let the result do the talking.

A good tutor does three jobs. They teach you the chapter, they make you practise and they take a test and tell you your marks. An AI chat can do all three for free if you give it the right instructions. Without instructions it just dumps a long answer and you scroll past it.

Below is one prompt for Class 10 and one for Class 12. Pick yours, fill in the square brackets and start.

How the three rounds work

Teach. The chapter comes in small parts, with a quick check after each part.
Practice. Questions come one at a time, from easy to hard, with hints when you ask.
Test. A short paper in board style. You answer first, then get marks and a list of weak topics.

One rule before you start. AI chats get facts wrong sometimes, and the marks they give are only an estimate. If an answer does not match your textbook, the textbook wins.

Class 10: your tutor prompt

Class 10 · Tutor mode

Act as my personal tutor for Class 10 [CBSE or RBSE] [SUBJECT]. The chapter is [CHAPTER NAME]. Work in three rounds and wait for my reply after every step. Round 1, Teach: Explain the chapter in small parts in simple English. Use Hindi words where they make it easier. After each part, ask me one quick question to check that I understood. Round 2, Practice: Give me 8 questions, one at a time, from easy to hard. Include very short, short and long answer questions and at least 2 competency-based or case-based questions. Give a hint only if I ask. Round 3, Test: Give me a 20-mark test in board paper style. Do not show the answers. After I send my answers, check them like a board examiner, give marks for each question, my total out of 20 and the 3 topics I should revise. Stay within my board's textbook for this chapter.

Class 12: your tutor prompt

Class 12 · Tutor mode

Act as my personal tutor for Class 12 [CBSE or RBSE] [SUBJECT]. The chapter is [CHAPTER NAME]. Work in three rounds and wait for my reply after every step. Round 1, Teach: Explain the chapter in small parts. For each part give the key idea, the formula or definition if there is one and one solved example. After each part, ask me one quick question. Round 2, Practice: Give me 8 questions, one at a time, from easy to hard. Mix short answers, long answers and numericals or derivations where the subject has them. Include at least 2 competency-based or case-based questions. Give a hint only if I ask. Round 3, Test: Give me a 20-mark test in board paper style. Do not show the answers. After I send my answers, check them like a board examiner, give step marks for each question, my total out of 20 and the 3 topics I should revise. Stay within my board's textbook for this chapter.

Extra rounds when you want more

These three work in the same chat, after the tutor prompt.

Extra · Previous year round

Here are previous year questions from this chapter: [PASTE THE QUESTIONS]. Ask them to me one at a time. Check each answer like a board examiner and show the points I missed.

Paste real questions from past papers. Do not ask the AI to remember them, because it can make them up.

Extra · Competency round

Ask me 5 competency-based questions from [CHAPTER NAME]. Each one should give a real-life situation and ask me to apply the idea from the chapter. One at a time, and explain the thinking after I answer.

Extra · Scoreboard

Keep a scoreboard for me in this chat. After every test, add a row with the date, the chapter, my marks and my weakest topic. Show the full scoreboard whenever I type "score".

What is a competency-based question?

It is a question that checks if you can use an idea, not only repeat it. You get a small situation, a table or a case, and you have to apply what the chapter taught. Board papers now carry a good share of these, so practising only definitions leaves marks on the table.

How to use it every day

One chapter per sitting. About 30 to 40 minutes.
Write your answers in a notebook first, then type them. The exam is on paper.
Note the 3 weak topics from each test. Start the next sitting with them.

Quick round

Three questions on tutor mode

Why does the prompt say "wait for my reply after every step"?
- To make the chat slower
- So you answer and think, and do not just read
- It has no purpose
A competency-based question mainly checks
- How fast you write
- If you can apply an idea to a situation
- Your handwriting
The AI gives you 17 out of 20. How should you read that?
- As an exact board score
- As a rough estimate that shows weak spots
- As a reason to stop studying

Start with your weakest chapter

Pick the chapter you have been avoiding and run all three rounds on it today. The first test score may be low. Write it down anyway. Beating that number next week is the game.