How to use NeuraGeek's AI Tutor

AI can be useful for revision, but only when you use it for the right job.

A generic chatbot window can give you an answer. A subject-specific study buddy should do more: help you understand the topic, stay inside your course, work through questions, turn difficult ideas into something visual, and check your own written work.

NeuraGeek's AI Tutor is built around those different situations.

Inside a subject you can switch between Tutor and Examiner modes, choose a full explanation or a guided approach, upload material, generate diagrams, and move straight into past papers and topical practice.

Open the AI Tutor from your subject

Open the subject you want to study and select Ask AI Tutor. In this walkthrough the example subject is A-Level Sociology.

The tutor opens already inside that subject, so you never have to begin a chat by explaining what course you are studying.

The main screen has two modes at the top: Tutor and Examiner.

The left-hand navigation holds the current subject, Past Papers, Topical Papers where the subject has them, and the Dashboard with your pinned subjects. New chat starts a fresh conversation; Recents is where previous chats collect.

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Tutor mode: use AI to learn, not just to get an answer

Tutor mode is the normal learning workspace.

Ask a direct subject question, request help with a concept, ask about a syllabus topic, or upload a document and keep the conversation going around it.

The important choice is how you want the tutor to respond, and you switch between Explain and Learn.

Explain is the more direct option. It answers the question fully and breaks the concept down.

Reach for it when you are reviewing a topic, checking your understanding after revision, or working out why an idea holds.

Ask the tutor about your actual subject

Because the tutor is opened from a specific subject, you can ask questions in that context.

In the Sociology example, a syllabus request was followed by a question about socialisation and the creation of social identity. The tutor produced a structured explanation: the concept, primary and secondary socialisation, and the agencies involved.

You can keep asking follow-up questions in the same chat.

Revision rarely ends after one response. You may understand the definition but still need an example, a comparison, a simpler explanation, or help connecting the idea to an exam question.

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Use Diagram mode when text is not enough

Some topics are easier to remember when you can see how the ideas relate.

Diagram mode turns a topic into a visual explanation. Send a prompt like "explain visually socialisation and the creation of social identity" with Diagram selected, and the tutor explains the topic, then draws the ideas and the relationships between them.

It works best for processes, comparisons, classifications, cause-and-effect chains, and topics with several connected concepts.

Instead of rereading a long paragraph, use the diagram as a revision map — and go back to the chat if one part still does not land.

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Save the response as a PDF

Every tutor response has actions underneath it: copy the output, regenerate it for another version, or save it as a PDF.

The PDF carries the written explanation as well as the visual, so something useful does not stay trapped inside one chat.

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Upload your own material in Tutor mode

Tutor mode also includes an upload option.

Use it when the thing you need help with is already in a file rather than something you can type. Add the material, then ask the tutor to explain, simplify or work through it.

Examiner mode: switch from learning to checking your work

Tutor mode is for learning. Examiner mode is for grading and feedback.

Switch to Examiner at the top of the page when you want the AI to look at an answer you have actually attempted.

The interface becomes deliberately simpler. Explain, Learn and Diagram disappear, leaving the upload button on its own.

It is built for handwritten work you want checked, not a new concept you want taught.

The strongest revision loop is: attempt the question with no help, upload your answer in Examiner mode, read the feedback, and only then go back to Tutor mode if there is a concept or technique you still do not understand.

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Move between the AI Tutor and exam practice

The AI Tutor is not isolated from the rest of the subject workspace. The sidebar links take you straight into Past Papers or Topical Papers.

That makes it easy to turn an explanation into practice: learn the concept in Tutor mode, open a real paper, attempt a question, and come back when you get stuck.

It works in the other direction too. If a past-paper question exposes a weak area, use the paper's Ask AI integration or open the AI Tutor and study that topic properly before attempting more questions.

A practical way to use it

If you are not sure which mode to reach for, keep it simple.

• Explain when you need a clear, complete explanation of a concept.
• Learn when you want hints and guidance instead of the finished answer.
• Diagram when the topic makes more sense as a visual map or a process.
• Upload in Tutor mode when what you need help with is already in a document.
• Examiner after you have attempted your own written work and want it reviewed.
• Past Papers or Topical Papers after learning, so you apply the idea to real exam questions.

Do not use it as a shortcut around practice

The fastest way to make an AI tutor useless is to ask for every answer before you have tried anything yourself.

If you are revising for an exam, the goal is not a correct response on the screen. It is being able to produce that response when the AI is no longer there.

So use the modes deliberately. Learn first when you can. Explain when you are stuck. Generate a diagram when the concept is hard to organise.

Then close the explanation and test yourself. Once you have written an answer, use Examiner mode to find out what still needs work.

Put it into practice

Open one of your Cambridge subjects and pick a topic you genuinely find difficult.

Ask the AI Tutor to teach it in Learn mode, switch to Explain if you need a fuller breakdown, and generate a diagram if the relationships are still unclear. Then move into a topical or past-paper question on the same area and attempt it without the tutor in front of you.

That is where the AI Tutor earns its place — not as a replacement for revision, but as the layer between not understanding a topic and being able to answer an exam question on your own.