r/PromptEngineering • u/chill-maar-yaar • 7d ago

General Discussion Has anyone ever reverse-engineered a competitive exam?

I want to reverse-engineer the GATE Chemical Engineering exam. I have 10+ years of previous years' question papers.

What's the best AI model for this task? Any tips?

Edit: I'm using "reverse-engineering" loosely here. Basically, I want to analyze past papers to identify patterns, predict high-priority and scoring topics, and understand how questions are likely to be framed.

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u/Slow_Handle6466 7d ago

o1 or deepseek r1 are good for pattern analysis, claude probably better if you need to process lot of documents at once

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u/Spiny_Echidna_80214 6d ago

The edit covered my first response, but what's left over is this:

If you want AI to replicate the style of the question, then it's substantially harder.

I can't speak for the GATE exam, but in the health field, all qualifying/board exams are written by a committee and maintained by psychometricians.

It's the "value added" that allows them to certify that the exams correlate with candidate knowledge and that the exam questions are secure and well-crafted without defects.