Socratic helps you practise explaining, testing and revising your reasoning. It responds to how you reached an answer, not only whether the answer was correct.
Two focused demonstrations of Socratic tutoring. This is a formative proof of concept, not a learning platform or formal assessment.
Agree a useful activity from a topic or your own material, then reason with adjustable support.
Start Open PracticeWork through authored short and longer cases with controlled fact release and evidence-aware feedback.
Choose a caseDemonstration panel — fixed synthetic attempts, not live tutoring
Alex has a positive fictional screening result (90% sensitive, 95% specific, 1% prevalence). What does the positive result mean?
Shared answer in both attempts: About 15%
About 15%. I just remember that number from somewhere.
The numerical answer matches the teaching figure, but little reasoning was shown.
Development points
A recalled percentage without evidence does not show that the learner can justify or revise the conclusion.
About 15%. In 10,000 people, 100 have X and 90 test positive; about 495 without X also test positive. So 90 of 585 positives have X. The result raises chance from 1% but is not a diagnosis; false positives still outnumber true positives.
The same numerical answer is supported by explicit evidence, base-rate use and calibrated uncertainty.
Strengths
Development points
Evidence, alternatives and uncertainty make the reasoning inspectable — not only the final number.
Both attempts reach the same answer. Formative feedback differs because Socratic judges the reasoning that was actually expressed.