Turn TOEFL reading material into questions and commute audio
At a glance
Tahirih Jaliri used NotebookLM to replace passive rereading with passage questions and audio review. This workflow is listed under Education, Exam Preparation, Audio.
- Agents / tools
- NotebookLM
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What they did
1) Create a NotebookLM notebook and upload your TOEFL reading practice and course notes as sources. 2) Ask it to identify a passage's main arguments and their relationships, then generate five questions the material should enable you to answer. Use the returned source references to locate the supporting passages. 3) Generate an Audio Overview from the uploaded material and listen during a walk or commute, noticing explanations that remain unclear. 4) Return to the notebook with those gaps and request a focused FAQ or follow-up explanation, so the next review targets the material you still struggle with.
How it went
The author reports noticeably better retention and finding audio useful for recognizing gaps; no exam-score improvement is measured.
