Your personal routine for checking schoolwork

Copy this and customize:

1. Spot the load-bearing claims (definitions, dates, numbers, quotes, citations).
2. Doubt the smoothest sentence — confidence ≠ evidence.
3. Check one independent source (notes, textbook, teacher site) — not another AI.
4. Recalculate or re-look-up any number/date you’ll show a teacher.
5. Retell the key idea without looking; if you can’t, you don’t understand it yet.
6. Escalate care if health, harm, bullying, or other people’s private info appears — stop and get a human.

Six steps. Same order. Every AI-assisted assignment.

Make it yours:

• Subjects: For math, emphasize recalculate. For history, emphasize dates/sources. For language arts, emphasize quotes and thesis ownership.
• Time: If you only have 90 seconds, do steps 1, 3, and 4 on the riskiest claim.
• Partners: In group work, assign a “verifier” role that rotates.
• Hard no’s: List prompts you won’t run (cheat on tests; roast a classmate; medical dosing).

Write the knobs in your notes app titled AI check routine.

Routines fail when they’re only theory. This week:

• Run the core list on one homework answer.
• Run it on one project slide.
• Teach the list to a friend in under a minute.

When it feels slightly annoying and automatic, it’s working.

• Skipping checks because the answer “sounds like the teacher”
• Using AI #2 as “verification”
• Checking tiny details while ignoring the thesis-level wrong claim
• Verifying once, then accepting later AI rewrites without a re-check

After any big paste-rewrite, restart at step 1.

You can claim this routine when you can:

• recite your six steps from memory
• show one school example where a check caught a mistake
• name your independent sources for two classes
• explain when you raise stakes and stop

That’s spotting wrong answers as a habit, not a mood.