Students
Turn a semester of lectures, PDFs, and scattered notes into a short syllabus you can actually finish before the exam.
Exam-first sequencing
For students, academics, and examinees
The whole course, minus the noise.
Turn textbooks, lectures, and past papers into a focused short syllabus and a study guideline. Generate a draft with AI for free — or have a specialist in the field write it by hand.
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Who it is for
Three desks. One problem: too much syllabus, too little time.
Whether you are sitting a paper, teaching a compressed module, or preparing a professional exam, the work is the same — decide what matters, in what order, and what you will not touch.
Academics
Condense a full module into a teachable outline — core outcomes, reading order, and what can safely be left as optional.
Module distillation
Examinees
Board, civil service, and professional papers need ruthless focus. We map the syllabus to the actual exam pattern.
Pattern-aware coverage
Two ways to distill
AI for the first cut. A human when the paper is unforgiving.
Free
Generate with AI
Bring every resource you have. The generator reads notes, outlines, and past papers, then writes a short syllabus with weights, a skip list, and a week-by-week guideline.
- — Minutes, not days
- — Best when your materials are complete
- — A serious draft you can print and annotate
Premium
A specialist writes it
We match you with someone who has taught, examined, or practised in the field. They do not just extract your files — they know which chapters the examiner still loves.
- — Human intervention, field experience
- — Likely questions and examiner commentary
- — One revision round, 3–5 day desk
What you receive
Not a summary. A working map of the course.
Every ShortSyllabus — free or premium — is built to be studied from, not admired.
Short syllabus
A compressed topic list with estimated weight, must-know vs optional, and the order you should actually study.
Study guideline
A paced plan to your exam date — daily blocks, revision loops, and what to drill when time gets short.
Skip list
The chapters that look important and almost never appear. Permission to ignore is half the work.
Question clusters
Recurring question shapes drawn from your past papers and the way the subject is typically examined.
Sample
This is what a short syllabus looks like on the page.
Short syllabus
Organic Chemistry I
End-of-year written paper (3 hours) + mechanism spotter
A short syllabus for Organic Chemistry I, aimed at End-of-year written paper (3 hours) + mechanism spotter. Must-know topics carry the paper. Likely topics are covered at outline-plus-example depth. Optional items are listed so you can ignore them without guilt.
Topic map
- 12%
Bonding, structure & acid–base in organic systems
mustEvery mechanism question starts here. Formal charge and pKa beats memorising names.
- 16%
Substitution & elimination (SN1/SN2/E1/E2)
mustHighest yield. Stereochemistry, solvent, and substrate decide the pathway.
- 10%
Addition to alkenes & alkynes
mustRegiochemistry and stereochemical outcomes are the usual marks.
- 18%
Carbonyls: addition, condensation, acyl substitution
mustAldol, Claisen, and Grignard clusters dominate finals.
- 12%
Aromaticity & electrophilic aromatic substitution
mustDirecting effects and multi-step synthesis planning.
- 14%
Spectroscopy (IR, 1H/13C NMR, MS)
likelyStructure elucidation from a mixed data set is almost guaranteed.
- 8%
Oxidation, reduction & protecting groups
likelyReagent choice in multi-step synthesis, not isolated reactions.
- 6%
Pericyclic reactions & frontier orbitals
optionalOften a single short question. Learn Woodward–Hoffmann at outline level unless your paper loves it.
- 4%
Bio-organic / named industrial processes
optionalSkip deep industrial flowcharts unless past papers show them.
From the desk
People who were drowning in PDFs.
“I fed it three years of lecture PDFs and a messy Google Drive. The short syllabus was the first time I saw the course as a map instead of a pile.”
“The premium chemist who wrote mine had marked this paper. She told me which named reactions are theatre and which ones pay the bills. Worth every dollar.”
“We use the free generator to draft condensed outlines for visiting lecturers, then send one module a term to a Premium expert for the high-stakes course.”
Pricing
Free to draft. Pay when you want a human in the loop.
AI distillation
Free
$0instant
Upload your resources. Get a short syllabus and guideline generated in minutes.
- ✓Unlimited source text, notes, and outlines
- ✓AI short syllabus with topic weights
- ✓Week-by-week study guideline
- ✓Skip list and high-yield flags
- ✓Download or print your draft
- ✓Best for first cuts and revision maps
Human expert
Premium
$149per syllabus
A specialist in your field writes the short syllabus. Experience, not just extraction.
- ✓Matched expert who has taught or examined the subject
- ✓Hand-crafted short syllabus and guideline
- ✓Exam-pattern commentary and likely questions
- ✓What textbooks over-teach this year
- ✓One revision round included
- ✓Typical delivery in 3–5 days
Priority desk
Premium Rush
$24948-hour
Same human standard, faster desk. For exams that will not wait.
- ✓Everything in Premium
- ✓48-hour target delivery
- ✓Priority expert matching
- ✓Same-day clarification on brief
- ✓Printable sealed PDF
- ✓Ideal inside two weeks of the paper
Questions
Before you upload a semester of notes.
What is a short syllabus?+
A distilled version of a full course or exam syllabus: the topics that matter, in the order you should study them, with weight, skip advice, and a guideline for how to cover them before your date. It is not a cheat sheet of answers — it is a map of the terrain.
How does the free AI version work?+
You upload or paste everything you have — notes, chapter lists, past papers, learning outcomes. The generator indexes those sources, estimates what is high-yield, and produces a short syllabus plus a study guideline. It is fast and surprisingly sharp when your materials are complete.
When should I choose Premium?+
When the exam is high-stakes, the subject is judged by people (law, medicine, civil service, literature), or you need someone who has actually taught or sat the paper. AI extracts patterns from your files. A human knows which patterns the examiner still loves.
Who are the Premium experts?+
Tutors, former examiners, practising professionals, and lecturers matched to your field. Each request is assigned to someone with direct experience in that subject — not a generalist editor.
What files can I upload?+
PDFs, lecture slides, notes, images of handwritten pages, links, and pasted text. The free generator reads what you provide in-browser for this demo. Premium experts review the same pack by hand.
Begin
Bring the pile. Leave with a map.
Start with the free generator this afternoon, or brief an expert if the exam will not forgive a machine’s guess.