What the Quiz Generator from Text does
This quiz generator turns your own notes or a passage into a practice quiz of fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice and true-or-false questions, with instant checking, an answer key, a print view and JSON export. Paste a few paragraphs, choose the question types and how many, and choose Make quiz.
It is not AI. Questions are built by transparent rules from the key terms in your text - each question in the answer key says exactly which rule made it - so every correct answer comes straight from what you pasted, and nothing is sent anywhere.
How to use it
- Paste notes written in full sentences: a textbook summary, lecture notes or a passage you need to learn. Bullet fragments give fewer and weaker questions.
- Tick the question types you want and set the number of questions.
- Choose Make quiz and answer the questions without looking at your notes - the effort of recalling is what helps learning.
- Choose Check answers to see your score and the correct answer for each miss.
- Change the shuffle number for a different mix of questions from the same notes, and print or export the quiz to use again.
Reading the results
Key terms are found by rule: capitalised names and acronyms that do not begin a sentence, numbers and years, and longer content words, ranked by how often they appear (capitalised terms count double). Common function words are ignored.
Fill-in-the-blank removes a key term from one of your sentences. Multiple choice offers that term plus three other key terms of the same kind from your text - names with names, numbers with numbers, words with words. True-or-false shows your sentence either unchanged (true) or with its key term swapped for another (false).
Because distractors come from your own text, some may be partly plausible. That is intended: telling close terms apart is good practice, and the answer key shows the original sentence.
Worked example: a paragraph on photosynthesis
The photosynthesis example has eight sentences, each between 6 and 60 words, so up to eight questions can be made - one per sentence.
ATP appears twice as a capitalised term, so it scores 2 x 2 = 4 and ranks among the top key terms; 1961 is recognised as a number, and "The Calvin cycle" gives the name Calvin rather than "The Calvin" because a leading "The" is stripped.
A fill-in-the-blank question from the third sentence reads "The Calvin cycle uses _____ to fix carbon dioxide into glucose." with the answer ATP and NADPH. A false statement might swap carbon for glucose in the Rubisco sentence, and the answer key shows the original wording.
Limitations: what the result does not prove
- The rules pick terms, not meaning. They cannot tell which fact matters most for your exam, and they may blank a term that is obvious from context.
- True-or-false swaps can occasionally produce a statement that happens to be true; the answer key shows the original sentence, which is the reference.
- It works best on English prose. Lists, tables and formula-heavy notes give few usable sentences.
- Fill-in-the-blank checking ignores case, accents and spacing but not spelling or synonyms, so check near-misses yourself.
Privacy: where your data goes
Everything you paste, type or drop is processed in this browser tab. It is not uploaded, logged, stored or sent to analytics. Session recording and tag-manager scripts are switched off on this page.
Standards and sources
- Roediger and Karpicke (2006) - Test-enhanced learning, Psychological Science
- Dunlosky et al. (2013) - Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques
Frequently asked questions
Is this an AI quiz generator?
No. It uses fixed, documented rules on your own text: it finds key terms, blanks them, and builds options and swaps from other terms in the same text. The answer key explains the rule behind each question.
Why do practice quizzes help me remember?
Retrieving information from memory strengthens it more than re-reading it, an effect known as retrieval practice or the testing effect. Short, low-stakes quizzes on your own notes are one of the simplest ways to use it.
Why were fewer questions made than I asked for?
Each question comes from a different sentence that contains a key term and is 6 to 60 words long. Short or list-like notes have fewer such sentences; paste more text for more questions.
Can I use the quiz with my class?
Yes. Copy the quiz as text or print it, and keep the answer key for yourself. Read the questions through first, because rule-based blanks and swaps sometimes need a light edit before they are fair.
How do I get different questions from the same notes?
Change the shuffle number. The same notes and shuffle number always give the same quiz, so you can reproduce one later; a new number gives a different selection and order.
Last reviewed by the A2Z.Tools team against the sources listed above.
