Guide
Syllabus notes: one page per part of the syllabus
What the Notes link on Subjects gives you, how the notes are made and checked, and how to use them without falling into passive reading.
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Your Subjects page now shows each syllabus as units, topics and parts — a part is a subtopic, or a run of about eight points inside a big topic. When a part has a Notes link, it opens a short page written for exactly those points: a one-paragraph overview, a point-by-point breakdown that starts from the command verb each point uses, a worked past-paper example where one exists, a scaffold for extended responses, and a glossary of the terms you must be able to recall.
How a note is made
- We take the points in the part, straight from the syllabus, and the past-paper questions that have been mapped to them.
- An AI model drafts the note from that material only. It is told what each command verb asks for and to say when a point is too thin to explain rather than pad it.
- A person reads the draft and publishes it, or sends it back. You never see an unpublished draft.
- Every note says which syllabus it came from. Where the syllabus licence allows, the point is quoted; otherwise it is paraphrased.
Using them well
- Read the overview, then close it and do a brain dump on the part. The gaps you find are what to revise, not the whole page.
- Use the point-by-point section to check the verb: knowing the content is not the same as being able to "analyse" or "evaluate" it under exam conditions.
- Notes are a lookup, not a study method. The daily loop, flashcards and past-paper questions are where marks come from; come back to the note when you get something wrong.
- If something in a note looks wrong, use the feedback link — it goes to a person, and the note is fixed for everyone.