A general AI model has read a great deal of the internet, which sounds like an advantage for a tutor until you watch it answer a Grade 9 science question with a university-level digression, or introduce a notation the student's board has never used. Breadth is the wrong instinct for a student preparing for a specific exam. So we deliberately narrow it.
The curriculum is the wall
When a school uploads its curriculum, that material becomes the boundary the tutor works inside. Before answering, the tutor retrieves the relevant passages from the loaded grade, subject, and chapter, and builds its explanation from those. This is a retrieval approach, but the retrievable set is walled: it is the school's own curriculum, not the open web. The tutor reaches for the chapter the student is on, not for everything it happens to know.
What staying in scope prevents
- Answers pitched at the wrong level for the grade
- Methods or notation the student's board does not use
- Confident detours into material that will not be on the exam
- Made-up facts with no source a teacher can check
Exam mode draws the line hardest
In Exam mode the wall is at its strictest. Revision stays strictly inside the loaded curriculum, so a student close to their board exams is never pulled toward content outside what they will be tested on. Learn mode allows a little more room to build intuition, but even there the explanation is anchored to the curriculum and cites where it came from.
Citations keep it honest
Every substantive answer points back to the chapter and topic it was drawn from. That citation is not decoration. It lets a student verify the source, and it lets a teacher reviewing a session confirm the tutor stayed on-syllabus. When an answer can be traced, a wrong or outdated passage in the curriculum can be found and fixed — the system gets more trustworthy over time, not less.
A narrower tutor is a better tutor
It can feel counter-intuitive to limit a capable model on purpose. But a tutor's job is not to demonstrate everything it knows; it is to help one student learn one syllabus well. Keeping the tutor inside the curriculum is how we make sure its considerable ability is pointed squarely at the exam the student in front of it is actually sitting.