Free for college students
Read thefine print.
A free 10-minute syllabus reality check. Find the attendance traps, late-work math, fog words, and hidden grading rules before they get used on your grade.
- Decode attendance, late work, participation, and grade-appeal rules
- Spot the fog words that let someone decide the rules later
- Do the grade-weight math so one category can't blindside you
- Turn what you find into calm, specific questions for your professor
Free fillable PDF. No email, no signup, no catch.
What's inside
Two pages. Ten minutes.
Write what the syllabus actually says, not what you hope it means.
Reading between the lines
Attendance, late work, participation, and grade appeals, in plain words.
Where your grade comes from
Weights, targets, and the quick math, so one heavy category can't quietly sink your final grade.
Rules under the percentages
Dropped scores, rounding, curves, extra credit, final-exam replacement, and what tools (including AI) are allowed.
Turn it into questions
The questions you still need answered, plus a boring-but-specific script that gets a real answer.
Office hours + receipts
What to ask before you're in trouble, and how to keep a record so your memory isn't the only proof.
Put it on the calendar
Pull every date, deadline, and trigger out of the PDF and into your actual life.
Made for
- First-gen students figuring out college without a map
- Returning, working, and parenting students with zero time to waste
- Formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted students learning a new set of rules
- Anyone who's been blindsided by a syllabus policy
Not for
- People looking for a way to skip reading the syllabus
- Anyone hoping to win a fight with their professor
Some students show up already knowing the rules. A lot of us never got that memo. So I write them down.Mabbit · Founder, Deconstructing Academia
Last call
Grab the check. Keep your grade.
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Learn the rules. Question who wrote them.