Ace the exam.Not just the revision.

PDFs, PowerPoint decks (.pptx, including the speaker notes), Word documents, plain text, Markdown, and CSV files, up to 10 MB each. You can also paste a link to a page you are studying from, or paste the text straight into the box. GeniusPal reads the text layer of whatever you send it and works through the whole document rather than stopping at the first page, so a full chapter or a term of slides produces questions drawn from all of it. The 10 MB ceiling is the real enforced limit and comfortably covers a textbook chapter, a lecture handout, or an exported deck; split anything larger and upload it in parts. Two boundary cases are worth knowing. A PDF that is only photographs of handwriting carries no text to read, and GeniusPal says so rather than inventing questions. The pre-2007 binary .ppt format needs one re-save as .pptx before it will upload.

Good enough to catch you out, which is the point. Every wrong answer has to be something a half-prepared student would plausibly pick, so getting a set right means knowing the material rather than spotting the odd option out. Each set is also screened before you ever see it for the tells that let people score without understanding anything: an answer that gives itself away by being the longest, options that repeat each other, and "all of the above". Because the questions are written from the file you uploaded rather than from the open web, they stay closer to your syllabus and your lecturer than a generic question bank can. Treat the first set as a draft all the same. Skim the answer key before you revise from it, and flag anything that still reads wrong in one tap so it stops coming back at you.

10 questions per set on Free and up to 30 on a paid plan, each one carrying an explanation and, where your material supports it, the exact line it was drawn from. A larger set also reads proportionally more of your document in a single generation, so a long chapter gets covered rather than sampled. Every set runs as a scored quiz on every plan, which is what tells you the score you would have got today. Flashcards and written active recall over those same questions come with Student and Genius, and switching between the three modes spends no further generation. What you do not get back is a file to take elsewhere. There is no Anki, Quizlet, or CSV export today, so the set lives in GeniusPal, which is what lets it score you and bring the questions you missed back around.

Yes. Free gives you 1 study sets with no credit card required, and those 1 are a one-off allowance for the account rather than a monthly refill. That is deliberate. It is enough to upload something real, read the questions GeniusPal writes from your own material, and decide whether the output is worth paying for, without pretending to be a plan you could revise a whole term on. Free sets run as a scored quiz at 10 questions each. Student is $14.99 a month for 100 sets a month, and Genius is $59.99 for a year, shown as unlimited over a fair-use ceiling of 1000 sets a month. Both paid plans raise the set size to 30 questions and unlock flashcards and written recall. Sets you generated on Free stay in your account whatever you decide next.

Yes, as a style rather than as a source of questions. Upload a past paper alongside your notes and GeniusPal reads how that paper asks: the topics it keeps returning to, whether it wants an option picked or an answer written, how hard it pitches, and the instruction words it leans on. Your notes still supply every fact and every answer, and nothing from the paper is copied into your set. It is an estimate read off one paper, never a prediction of what your own exam will ask, and a mark scheme or a scan of handwriting gives it nothing to read. The difference shows up most in written practice, which comes with Student and Genius: on the paper we tested, questions that set up a situation before asking went from 1 in 10 to 7 in 10, while the multiple-choice wording moved much less. Free reads 1 paper, Student 10 a month and Genius 30. A saved style is reusable, so only reading a new paper spends anything, and deleting a style deletes the paper behind it.

Your upload is stored securely and used only to generate your study set. It stays private to your account and is never shared with other users. The text extracted from your file is what the model reads when it writes your questions, and that is exactly why a set matches your syllabus and your lecturer instead of a generic bank somebody else uploaded. Deleting a study set removes it from your account. Two boundary cases are worth knowing before you upload. First, only text is read: a PDF that is nothing but photographs of handwriting gives GeniusPal nothing to work from, and it says so rather than inventing questions to fill the gap. Second, upload material you are entitled to use, which for almost everyone means your own notes, your own handouts, and the documents your course has already given you.