HSC exams end 5 November: turn your study chats into one summary

Where your revision ended up

This year's HSC has 123 written exams over 18 days, from English Paper 1 on 13 October to Physics on the morning of 5 November, according to NESA. That's a long stretch, and a lot of study sessions.

You're far from the only one revising with AI: in the March quarter of 2026, 66% of Australians aged 14 to 17 used AI tools in an average four weeks, according to Roy Morgan. The catch is that a study chat isn't built to be re-read. The explanation that finally clicked is buried under three wrong attempts, and the summary table you asked for is forty messages up.

What a good revision summary keeps

Not the whole conversation. For revision, a summary should keep:

• The topic, in one line: "Module B, close study of the prescribed text", "Acids and bases".
• The explanations that worked, in the version you finally understood.
• The points you kept getting wrong, and the correction.
• What's still shaky: the question you never quite nailed.

Everything else, the "can you explain it differently", the rewrites, the tangents, can go.

Do it yourself, chat by chat

1. Open each study chat and write its topic at the top of a page.
2. Scroll down and copy only the explanation you understood, not every attempt.
3. Note your mistakes and the corrected version, in your own words.
4. List what's still open, and take it to your notes, your textbook or your teacher.

It works, and writing it yourself helps it stick. But with a dozen chats and a few days left, it's slow.

The faster way: Summarize, in Uncook

Uncook's Summarize does the first pass for you. On the ChatGPT page, click the Uncook icon and pick Summarize. You get the topic, what was settled, where it stands and what's still open, without the back-and-forth.

• Summarize — Free on one chat within its own length and daily usage limits. Beyond those limits, the task cost depends on your plan and is shown before you start.
• Several chats at once, say all your Chemistry chats, give you one summary of all of them. That counts as a task.
• Adjust the tone or who it's for, for example "as revision notes for a Year 12 student". Each adjustment runs it again, as a task.

Then export it as PDF, Markdown or text, and read it wherever you like.

Before you trust it: check it

A summary of a chat is only as good as the chat. If ChatGPT got something wrong along the way, and long chats make that more likely, the summary can carry the mistake over.

Your syllabus is the final judge.

Check each point against your class notes, your textbook or the NESA syllabus for your subject. Anything that doesn't match, take it to your teacher. Uncook summarises what was said in the chat. It doesn't check whether it's right.

And use it for what it is: revision before the exam, never help during it.

Questions people ask

Does it work if I revised in Gemini? Yes. You can use it with a supported chat open in desktop Chrome, such as a ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini chat.

Can I use it on NSWEduChat? No. The extension doesn't read NSWEduChat. You can copy what you need from it by hand into your notes.

Will the summary be shorter than my notes? It keeps the essentials and drops the back-and-forth. Read it, and add back anything it cut too short.