Summarise A Dense Textbook Chapter In Your Own Words

You have finished the chapter and you are not entirely sure what just happened, only that your eyes moved across all the words. This gets the main argument down to three sentences, defines the key terms it introduced, and flags what you could not yet explain confidently, so you know exactly what to reread.

You have just read a dense textbook chapter on {CHAPTER_TOPIC} and want to check you actually understood it, not just turned the pages. Summarise the chapter's main argument in three sentences, list the four key terms it introduces with a one-line definition for each, and write two questions you could not yet answer confidently, so you know what to reread.