ChatGPT is launching a ‘study mode’ to help students with their uni work – The Tab
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OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – has announced a new “study mode” feature to help students with their academic work.
It’s an open secret that a lot of uni students get generative AI software (such as ChatGPT) to do their uni work for them. A 2025 study by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found 88 per cent of students used AI tools for assessments.
This is pretty concerning since a) students aren’t learning how to do the task themselves b) using AI to write an essay counts as academic misconduct c) Generative AI software doesn’t understand what it produces in the way a human does – it essentially regurgitates a version of whatever text was fed into it. So, it can accidentally repeat misinformation.
OpenAI’s new study mode feature aims to get students to use ChatGPT for academic work in a responsible way.
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Jayna Devani, who’s the international educational lead at OpenAI, said: “How do we take that step forward in showing that there are responsible ways to engage with ChatGPT – to engage with ChatGPT to actually support a learning process? We definitely don’t believe that these tools should be misused and this is one step toward that.”
OpenAI developed study mode alongside academics from Stanford University, teachers and students.
The aim of it seems to be that instead of just giving students the answers to questions, study mode acts like a teacher. ChatGPT breaks down a question step-by-step and guides students towards the answer.
To use it, you just press the plus sign at the left of the question box and select “study and learn”. You can start by asking ChatGPT to teach you something new, help you with your homework, explain a topic to you, or create a practice quiz.
Ta-da
ChatGPT in study mode starts by asking a student basic questions to assess their level of knowledge and make sure the “lesson” is at the right level for them.
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Study mode gives students quizzes on what they’ve learned, and critiques their answers.
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The new feature works based on “custom system instructions”. So, ChatGPT study mode will behave how the user tells it to. For instance, if you didn’t want to do any quiz questions, you can just tell it not to give you any.
OpenAI wanted study mode to be like that, as “it lets us quickly learn from real student feedback and improve the experience—even if it results in some inconsistent behaviour and mistakes across conversations.”
The long-term plan is for ChatGPT’s software to let students set long-term goals, and for the software to monitor a student’s progress over different conversations.
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