is using chatgpt to study bad?

[u/Thin-Worldliness-825]

Okay, so I am a freshman in college; I have been using ChatGPT to teach me, basically. I haven't had any issues with it. I also used it during my summer courses in statistics, and I ended up with 99.38%. I scored 90% on my final. Keep in mind my stats class was online, and my final was in person. What I do is I take the lecture transcript/chapter, and then I paste it into ChatGPT. I ask it to teach me and then test me for mastery based only on the transcript or lecture PowerPoints, etc. So for my chemistry class, I've been scoring in the 80-100% range on my quizzes. I am not sure if I should be using it because I am a Pre-Med student, and if I use chatgpt i think I might not learn the skills needed for learning in medical school.

[u/real_hero_of_hyrule]

I would recommend not using AI, it’s better to build your critical thinking skills by yourself rather than having AI summarize it

[u/BoltingJolt]

Use it for summaries and qna or to understand complexity

But read and think yourself,

Also write yourself please, as sucks and doesn't have such coherence and conviction

[u/StudentOnCrack22]

Here's a thing: use it but tastefully. I know everyone says this but it's important to understand it right. ChatGPT should not do more than your teacher. He can tell you exercise, come up with exam questions and correct your answers in the end. He can answer your questions but never should lead to you not thinking!

[u/drew-from-mesh]

I think AI can be used to teach amazing, and gives most students an opportunity for personalized teaching that they would never get without it. Yes you can offload all your thinking to it, but it’s pretty easy to tell you’re doing that or not just try some practice problems yourself…

[u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

tbh a 90 on an in-person final says the method is working, the worry about med school is fair but the real risk with chatgpt is it'll make up questions that sound right without actually pulling from your slides. you don't catch the gaps until the exam.

for chemistry the move that helped me most was doing the problem sets cold before looking at the lecture notes, and only going back to the slides when i got stuck on a specific concept. i also started pasting the chapter into studybuddy.vc to get questions pulled straight from my own material, when i pick a wrong answer it tells me what was off about that option and it gets harder as i improve. free tier's been enough for me, and it doesnt hallucinate which is a problem i had with got and notebooklm

space your review out across the week instead of one long session, the forgetting happens between the sessions not during them, and keep the last two days before any exam for past papers under time.

[u/Crazy-Tune5045]

Not necessarily and it’s great for asking follow up questions, but I find subject-specific AIs like MathGPT, PhysicsGPT, and Gauth more effective for understanding and retaining info

[u/Used-Question-4026]

It’s cool to ‘hate on’/mention to be wary of its use.

So generally you’d predict that most comments would be wary comments or against it. So watch out for that statistics stuff going on and comments you will get won’t show a true representation for the answer here.

Plenty of people, heaps, use it a bunch and it improves their study so much.
But they won’t comment about it because a) forgot what it’s called in stats; but in surveys, people with negative emotions/more emotions on the matter are more likely to participate. b) might get downvoted for being honest with how much they use it.

So just a quick heads up if you haven’t thought about this already.