It's 11 PM the night before your midterm and you're staring at a 340-page textbook. You know you won't finish it. You also know that the 20 pages of margin scribbles you call "notes" aren't going to save you. This is the exact moment we built the new AI Study Guide tool for.
Upload your course PDF, click once, and about 30 seconds later you have a structured, exam-ready document: key concepts, definitions, formulas, worked examples, common mistakes, and exam-likely questions with answers. All of it grounded in your textbook, not some generic Wikipedia blend.
Why this beats asking ChatGPT
Generic chatbots are great at trivia. They're terrible at your specific course, because they've never seen your professor's slides or the weird way chapter 7 handles Bayesian inference. When you ask ChatGPT for a study guide, it invents a plausible one. When you ask iTutor, it reads your actual materials first and cites the pages it pulled from.
That single difference — generated from your materials, not generic answers — is why students stop second-guessing whether the AI made something up. Every section of the guide carries inline citations back to the source PDF, so you can verify any claim in two clicks.
What you actually get
The AI study guide isn't just a summary. It's a full exam-prep reference with six sections:
- Core concepts — the big ideas stitched together, not bullet-point soup
- Key terms with contextual definitions and source pages
- Formulas and rules pulled straight from the material
- Worked examples with step-by-step reasoning
- Common mistakes — the traps your professor will test
- Exam-likely questions with model answers and difficulty tags
Who this is for
Anyone with a pile of PDFs and a deadline. University students cramming for finals. High schoolers prepping for IB or A-levels. Grad students who need a fast reference to a methods textbook they barely have time to skim. Teachers who want a clean study packet to hand out to students who missed a week.
It pairs naturally with two other new tools in iTutor: the Worked Solutions generator, which produces full step-by-step answers to any problem in your textbook, and the Chapter Summary Pack, which gives you one uniform summary card per chapter. Use the study guide as your primary exam reference, pull in worked solutions when a specific problem type is tripping you up, and keep the chapter pack open for fast flip-through review.
How to try it
Create a free account at itutor.study, start a subject, upload one PDF, and click "Generate Study Guide" in the planner. Every plan includes free generations so you can see the quality before you commit. If it saves your midterm, consider this the best 30 seconds you ever spent.