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How to run a study group in Brainback

Compare reasoning. Never compare answers.

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Study group mode lets up to four students share a session. Each student attempts the same problem independently. Each student's Explain-back is visible to the group. Raw attempts are private.

Why this design: copying another student's raw attempt is the same failure mode as copying an AI's answer. But comparing Explain-backs — reading how a peer reasoned about the same concept — is one of the highest-leverage study activities that exists.

Rules of thumb: one problem per meeting, minimum 15 minutes of independent work before anyone shares, then take turns reading each other's Explain-backs aloud.

The goal is not to be right first. The goal is to identify why your reasoning differed from the peer whose Explain-back you found most useful. That's the study group's real product.

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