❓ Quiz Generator

The generator takes one of two paths depending on what you give it. When you paste a reasonable amount of source text, roughly sixty characters or more, it works from that passage. The text is split into sentences, factual-looking sentences are selected, and each is reworked into a question of the type you chose: a multiple choice item with a key term removed and alternatives drawn from other terms in the same passage, a true or false statement that either keeps or alters a detail, or a short answer prompt asking for the missing fact. Because the distractors come from your own material, they stay on topic rather than being obviously wrong.

When no source text is provided, questions are taken instead from a built-in bank of curated items covering a set of common subjects, matched as closely as possible to the topic you typed. The interface tells you which of the two paths produced the quiz.

Marking is done in the page. Multiple choice and true or false items are compared against the stored correct option, short answers against the expected answer text, and the total is reported both as a count and as a percentage.

Suppose you type Biology as the topic and paste a 120-word passage on photosynthesis, then set the question type to Mixed, difficulty to medium and the count to five. The counter under the text box confirms the word count and notes that questions will be extracted from your text.

The result is a five-item quiz mixing formats. A multiple choice item might ask which pigment absorbs light during photosynthesis, offering four options labelled A to D drawn from terms in your passage. A true or false item might state that photosynthesis releases carbon dioxide, which your passage contradicts. A short answer item might ask where in the cell the process takes place, expecting the word chloroplast.

Answer all five, get four right and the score reads 4 out of 5, which is 80 per cent. Each question shows a tick or a cross, and revealing the answer key displays the correct response along with the explanation for each item.

Switching the type to Multiple Choice only and the count to ten regenerates the quiz in the same format throughout, still drawn from the same passage.

Questions generated from a passage are only as accurate as the passage itself. The tool extracts and rearranges what you gave it; it does not fact-check. Paste clean source material and read the answer key before using a quiz with students. Expect to discard or edit the occasional question, particularly where a sentence contained a pronoun or a reference that no longer makes sense once it has been lifted out of context.

Short answer marking compares your typed response against the expected answer, so a correct idea expressed in different words, or with a typing slip, can be marked wrong. Treat that format as self-study prompting rather than formal assessment, and lean on multiple choice or true or false when you need dependable automatic marking.

A few practical habits help. Give at least three or four sentences of source text, since very short passages leave too little material for varied questions and for plausible distractors. Keep the question count in proportion to the passage: asking for twenty questions from a single paragraph forces repetition. And if you generate without source text, check that the built-in bank actually covers your subject, since a niche topic may return general questions instead.