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Ask the tutor: answers from your syllabus, with the point cited
What the tutor will and won't do, why it cites a syllabus point every time, and why it refuses to give you the answer mid-question.
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The tutor is a question box on Subjects, on syllabus notes and on every knowledge point. It is deliberately narrow: it answers from the points in your syllabus and the reviewed notes built on them, and every factual sentence carries a small chip naming the point it came from. Tap the chip to open that point. If your question is not covered by your syllabus, it says so and shows the two nearest points instead of guessing.
What happens when you ask
- Your question is matched against the points in the subjects you have chosen — never against the whole internet.
- The tutor writes an answer from those points only, pitched at the command verb the point uses.
- Before you see it, the answer is checked: every citation must point at a real syllabus point, or the answer is rewritten or withheld.
- Each answered question uses one AI credit. Declined questions are free. Your question is not stored — only a hash of it, for abuse checks.
Why it won't give you the answer
- When you open the tutor from a question you are still working on, it switches to hint mode: it will orient you and give the first step, and that is all. Research on AI tutors found that students who were given answers did better in practice and worse in the exam; hint-only help removed that harm.
- It can explain a method and show working, but the working is marked as the tutor's — check each line yourself. It is not a calculator.
- It cannot mark your essay or long answer. Use the answer-checking and essay-marking features for that.