To check AI revision notes, compare them with your course before you memorise them. First check the expected concepts, then the sensitive wording: definitions, conditions, numbers and examples. Asking the same AI whether it is right is not an independent check.
Start with chapter coverage
Open the notes and the source document side by side. Turn the course outline into a checklist. Every important part should appear in the summary, or be explicitly left in a complementary resource.
A note can be accurate and still incomplete. If it leaves out a key exception, it prepares you for an easier question than the one that will actually be asked.
Teaching example: a chapter presents a rule, its conditions and an edge case. A summary that keeps only the rule makes reading easier, but distorts what you need to learn.
Spot the words that change the meaning
Circle the expressions “always”, “never”, “only” and “necessarily”. Check that the course really uses that scope. A property that is valid under certain assumptions should not become a universal rule.
In mathematics, compare signs, units, domains of definition and conditions of use. In history, check dates and cause-and-effect links. In a definition, see whether the technical term has been replaced by an approximation.
The CNIL reminds users that generative systems can produce plausible errors. Text fluency therefore does not prove accuracy.
Check examples and references
For each example, distinguish three cases: it comes from the course, it was added for illustration, or its source is uncertain. An added example is not automatically wrong, but it must be checked before you learn it.
If a reference is cited, open it. Check that it exists, that it matches the statement and that it concerns the right year or the right syllabus. A link that works is not enough: its content must support the passage.
The ministerial framework for AI use requires this critical review of results. If you cannot decide on a point, keep a note rather than inventing an answer.
Correct without rebuilding the whole note
Use three labels: “keep”, “correct” and “check”. Rewrite false passages with the document open. For incomplete passages, add only what is missing from the revision goal.
A note generated with EduFiche can provide the starting structure. The check focuses on content, even if the layout looks clear. Our method for creating an effective revision note then helps you keep a readable summary.
Do not ask for a full new version because of a local error: you may introduce other changes that are hard to track.
Do a test after correcting it
Close the note and answer a few questions on the concepts you checked. A definition copied correctly can still be misunderstood. Add an application question or a counterexample to spot that.
The quizzes from a course are useful training here, with answers that should also be checked. Keep the corrected version and the source document together.
Today, take one note you have already made and check a single section all the way through. You will have one reliable part and a repeatable method for the next ones.