Umm Al-Qura University · B.Sc. Software Engineering · 2022 – 2026

How I got First Class Honors

No secret: a system. I caught every lecture the day it went up, kept one folder per course, and turned each lecture into practice with AI. Scroll through it.

AI grew my skills. It never did my work.

Every quiz, lab, project and exam was mine: I answered every question myself. I used AI like a strict tutor, to drill me, explain what I missed and show me where I was weak.

What AI did

Turned each lecture into questions
Explained the parts I got wrong
Put a whole lecture on one page

What I did

Answered every question myself
Wrote every lab, project and report
Sat every exam on my own

Activity StreamWinter 2023–24

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SE2204 Requirements Engineering 1Lecture 9 slides postedToday

SE2204 Requirements Engineering 1Lab 3 is openToday

CS2315 AlgorithmsHomework 2 postedYesterday

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CS2214 Data Structures+112/27/2023 9:14 PMFile folder299 items

SE2306 Software Design 1+11/14/2024 6:02 PMFile folder81 items

SE2204 Requirements Eng. 1+11/12/2024 11:40 PMFile folder79 items

SE2103 Software Engineering Ethics+112/21/2023 8:30 PMFile folder52 items

CS2231 Databases+12/18/2024 10:05 PMFile folder40 items

CS2315 Algorithms+12/4/2024 7:47 PMFile folder20 items

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ChatGPT

NotebookLM

Gemini

Claude

Here's Lecture 9 of Requirements Engineering. Make me MCQs with a hint on each, explain the hard parts, and give me a one-page summary.

MongoDB is a ___ DBMS.

RelationalNoSQLSQL

MCQ quiz pagequestions, with a hint on E

Merge sort in 90 s

Explainer videothe hard parts, explained

Configuration controltap to flip

Flashcardsterms to memorise

Lecture 9 · Requirements management

One-page summarythe whole lecture on one page

CS2231 Databases · cheat sheetCREATE TABLEDROP TABLEJOIN … ONGROUP BY1NF → 3NFPRIMARY KEY

Cheat sheetsyntax and rules on one page

CS2231 Databases · Q8 of 32Score 78

MongoDB is an example of a __________ DBMS.

ARelational
BNoSQL
CSQL
DNetwork

Hint: it's designed for large data and flexibility.

Cumulative GPA

out of 4.00

First ClassHonorsUmm Al-Qura University · 2026

1I kept Blackboard open and caught every new slide, lab and homework the day it went up.
2Everything went into one folder per course on my PC: slides, labs, homeworks, past exams.
3Then I turned each lecture into practice with ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Gemini and Claude.
4I practised until the quizzes were easy: between classes, on the way home, the night before.
5Four years of that: a 3.81 GPA and First Class Honors.

The result

3.81cumulative GPA out of 4.00

FirstClass Honors at graduation

184credit hours, one folder per course

1,000+files collected and studied

Some of my best grades:

100SEC2101 Cybersecurity
A+CS2231 Databases
A+CS2315 Algorithms
A+CS1312 Programming 2
A+SE3110 Software Testing
A+SE3113 Software Design & Construction 2
A+SE3114 Functional Programming
A+SE2307 Requirements Engineering 2
A+DS3002 Data Engineering
A+SE4431 Code Generation
A+SE4206 DevOps
A+SE3502 Graduation Project 2

How a lecture became practice

Re-created from my real course files: the same lectures, question banks and formats I studied with.

ChatGPTSE2307 Requirements Engineering 2

Lecture 5 conv.txtMake 10 MCQs from this lecture, one per line: question|A|B|C|D|E. Hint|answer. My quiz app reads that format.

Here are your questions, ready for your quiz app:

Which activity tracks changes to agreed requirements?|A. Requirements management|B. Elicitation|C. Prototyping|D. Validation|E. Hint: It starts once the requirements are agreed.|A
Configuration control is mainly about __________.|A. Writing use cases|B. Approving and tracking changes|C. Interviewing stakeholders|D. Estimating cost|E. Hint: Think change requests and baselines.|B
Which of these is a reference model for requirements management?|A. CMMI|B. UML|C. SQL|D. HTTP|E. Hint: It rates how mature a process is.|A

ChatGPT: questions in my quiz app's format. One line per question with a hint on E, so they went straight into my exam simulator.

NotebookLMSE2204 Requirements Engineering 1

Sources

Lecture 1 · What are requirements?Lecture 2 · ElicitationLecture 3 · Vision & scopeLecture 4 · Use casesLecture 5 · Domain & goal models

Audio overviewDeep dive · 14 min

What diagrams can we use to present the product scope?

A context diagram, a use-case diagram, a feature tree and an ecosystem map. 34

NotebookLM: every lecture in one notebook. A podcast-style overview for the way home, and answers that point back to the slide they came from.

GeminiCS2315 Algorithms

Merge sort in 90 seconds

Split the list in half until each part has one item, then merge them back in order.

0:41 / 1:30

SplitMergeWhy n log n

Gemini: short explainer videos. For the parts the slides made hard, like why merge sort is n log n.

ClaudeSE2103 Software Engineering Ethics · Chapter 10

Question 5 of 10Streak 4

What is the transformation of an idea or resources into useful applications called?

aInnovation
bCreativity
cInvention
dDiffusion

Right. Creativity is thinking up new things; innovation is turning them into something useful.

Claude: a quiz page for every chapter. Pick an answer, see why, keep the streak going. Built from the chapter's question bank.

What I made to study

Real files from my course folders: the quiz app I wrote to drill for my Databases final, the lectures I turned into text for AI, and the kind of work it paid off on.

java App · Databases exam simulator

Question 8 out of 32: MongoDB is an example of a __________ DBMS.
A. Relational
B. NoSQL
C. SQL
D. Network
Questions left: 24
Your answer (A, B, C, D, or E for hint): E
E. Hint: It's designed for large data and flexibility.
Try again (A, B, C, D): B
Correct!

My Databases exam simulator (Feb 2024). A Java quiz app I wrote for the final: 32 questions, a hint on E, a colour for every answer, and a review of what I got wrong at the end.

Software Requirements 2 \ final exam

Lecture3 INCOSE Guide to Writing Requirements conv.txt
Lecture 4 conv.txt
Lecture 5 conv.txt

Requirements Management · What is Requirements Management? · Configuration Management · Configuration Control …

Lectures turned into text for AI (May 2024). Before the Requirements Engineering 2 final I converted each lecture to plain text, ready to paste into an AI and turn into questions and summaries. I got an A+.

Use-case diagram of the Green Zone Monitoring System: drivers, residents and an operator, with green zone entry and exit, permits, and account management. — **Green Zone Monitoring System (SE2306).** My use-case model for a city green-zone system: entry and exit, permits, fines and accounts.

Class diagram of the Green Zone Monitoring System with Vehicle, Driver, Permit, Operator, a centralized server and the sensor devices. — **Its class model.** Vehicles, drivers, permits, sensors and the central server, and how they talk to each other.

Inside my course folders

CS2214 Data Structures299 files · labs and Java code
SE2306 Software Design & Construction 181 files · lab diagrams
SE2204 Requirements Engineering 179 files · lectures, labs, quizzes
SE2103 Software Engineering Ethics52 files · lectures, quizzes, report
CS1211 Programming 1 (Java)45 files · Java training code
CS2231 Databases40 files · exam simulator, study guide
CS1101 Discrete Structures 137 files · lectures, quizzes
CEN2002 Hardware/Software Interface29 files · MIPS and Logisim
SE2307 Requirements Engineering 223 files · lectures as text
CS2315 Algorithms20 files · homeworks, sorting project
SE3110 Software TestingJUnit, Selenium, JMeter and security labs
SE3111 Mobile AppsFlutter projects with Firebase

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