Questions out of the same chapter
Multiple choice, true or false, open answers and matching, without typing a card.
Making flashcardsSummaries
Make a summary of your own chapter, in plain language
Summarising is useful. Copying out the book is not. Upload your chapter and get a summary in plain language, with the key terms and worked examples beside it, and questions to check whether any of it stuck.
In short
You upload a photo, pdf, Word file or PowerPoint of your chapter. StudyWorld reads it and writes a summary in plain language: short pieces, the key terms set apart, and worked examples where the material is hard. Questions on the same upload are waiting when you finish reading.
What you actually get
Example from a biology chapterFrom your book
Photosynthesis takes place in the chloroplasts, where chlorophyll absorbs light energy and converts it into chemical energy, splitting water and reducing carbon dioxide to glucose.
The summary
The plant catches light in its chloroplasts and uses it to build sugar out of water and carbon dioxide. The oxygen you breathe is what is left over.
Key terms
Chloroplast, chlorophyll, glucose, carbon dioxide, oxygen.
What the summary holds
- Short pieces
- Key terms
- Worked examples
- Questions included
Why a summary helps, and when it does not
Summarising forces you to choose what matters. That choosing is the actual learning: you have to pull the main line out of the details, and you can only do that once you understand what the chapter is about.
It usually goes wrong in the doing. Copy the chapter sentence by sentence and after two hours you have a handsome document and very little knowledge. The text has moved, not landed.
So StudyWorld does the dull half: the reading and the writing out. What you keep is the summary, plus the time to check whether you actually know it.
From chapter to summary
Three steps and you can start reading
No pages to copy, no highlighter. A readable photo of the pages is enough.
- 01
Upload your chapter
Photograph the pages with your phone, or upload the pdf, Word file or PowerPoint your teacher handed out.
- Photo
- Word
- PowerPoint
- 02
StudyWorld reads it and writes the summary
In plain language, out of your pages rather than out of general knowledge. The key terms are listed separately, and the hard parts get a worked example.
- Plain language
- Key terms
- Worked examples
- 03
You check whether it stuck
Questions come with the same upload. Reading always feels like knowing; answering a question shows whether that is true.
- Questions included
- Per concept
- Spaced review
Copy it out yourself, or have the chapter summarised
Summarising by hand
- Two hours of typing before you answer a single question
- You write out what you already understood
- The book stays the book: the same hard sentences
- No way of knowing what you left out
- Finished is finished, and then the studying still has to start
StudyWorldAdaptive
- A few minutes between uploading and reading
- The hard parts get explained, not transcribed
- Plain language, with the technical terms kept
- Out of the whole chapter, not out of what caught your eye
- Questions arrive with it, so you can check
Summarising was the point. Typing was only the work.
Getting more out of it
Five things that make a summary usable
These hold whether you write it yourself or have it written.
Start with the key terms
Knowing the words makes the rest read faster. Take the list first and find the sentences afterwards.
Summarise the summary
Try to say each piece in one sentence without looking. If you cannot, you do not know it yet.
Write the question above it
Put the question each piece answers at the top of it. That turns your summary into a quiz.
Highlight nothing
Highlighting feels productive and changes nothing. What you mark is what you will read back word for word.
Check with questions, not by rereading
Rereading makes you feel like you know it. Answering a question shows whether you do.
More than a summary
One upload brings the rest of it along.
A practice test against the clock
Pick your topics, set the difficulty and sit it before your teacher sets one.
Making a practice testAn AI tutor for what you do not get
It explains from your own chapter, and says so when something is not in there.
All featuresFree to start
Everything free for the first 7 days, without payment details. What you make stays yours.
See pricingFrequently asked questions
- Can I summarise a photo of my book?
- Yes. A readable photo of the page is enough, and you can upload several at once. A pdf, Word file or PowerPoint works the same way.
- How long is the summary?
- That depends on your chapter. It is shorter than the original and broken into short pieces, with the key terms listed separately.
- Does the summary match my book?
- It is written from the pages you uploaded, not from general knowledge. When something is not in your material, StudyWorld says so instead of filling the gap.
- Can I practise questions on it too?
- Yes. The same upload gives you questions and a practice test, and StudyWorld keeps track of which concepts you have mastered.
- Does it work for maths or chemistry?
- Yes. The hard parts come with worked examples, and if numbers are difficult for you the maths support can be switched on at no extra cost.
- Is it free?
- You can start for free: for the first 7 days you get everything in StudyWorld Unlimited, without payment details. After that, everything you made stays and you can keep practising. Making something new needs Unlimited. The pricing page has the prices.
Stop copying it out. Upload the chapter.
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