By Simon Batt
Publication Date: 2026-02-24 01:09:00
Every so often, I have the same dream. I’m back in high school, and I have to take an exam, usually math or history. The problem is, I’ve either forgotten to study for it, forgotten where the exam hall is, or forgotten when the exam is. Regardless of the problem, I end up bumbling around the school, trying to figure out how I’m going to fix this mess.
I figured the problem may be due to the anxieties I had over exams when I was a teen. I figured that I could put those worries to bed if I went back and studied high school math and history again; at the very least, if I had to take an exam in a dream, I’d be better equipped to sit it. That’s when I remembered that Gemini, the LLM that broke my ‘not paying for AI’ streak, has a Guided Learning mode to teach people topics. So, I sat down with it, told it to give me the worst high school had to offer, and here’s how it went.
Guided Learning automatically generates a quiz on whatever you like
You don’t have to revisit your nightmares if you don’t want to
While I was going through the trenches re-living my toughest math classes, I do want to emphasise that Guided Learning can be used for pretty much anything you want to learn and be quizzed about. For instance, I used Guided Learning to learn key phrases and words when ordering food in Paris, which was a lot more fun and lot less nightmarish than going back to high school.
Here’s how Guided Learning works. You…