Paste the address of a course page, a revision site, or an article, and answer questions written from what is on it. There is no file to find and nothing to copy across.
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A course page, a revision site, a documentation page, or an article. The box takes a link in place of a file.
It pulls the text of the article itself and writes questions from it, leaving the navigation and the footer behind.
Answer, score, and see explanations. The page stops being something you skimmed and becomes something you tested.
A section of an environmental science course page, and the marked paper that comes back after sitting the 10 questions written from it. Sample material, written by us to show the shape of the output.
The page you linked
Course page: the carbon cycle, section 3
The ocean holds roughly fifty times as much carbon as the atmosphere, most of it as dissolved bicarbonate. Warmer surface water holds less dissolved gas, so ocean uptake weakens as the surface warms, which is a positive feedback on atmospheric concentration.
Your marked paper
Your score
9 of 10
3 of the 10 questions
In what chemical form is most oceanic carbon held?
Roughly how does the ocean carbon store compare with the atmospheric store?
Why is weakening ocean uptake described as a positive feedback rather than a negative one?
Warming reduces uptake, which leaves more carbon in the air, which drives further warming. A feedback is positive when its effect pushes the original change further in the same direction.
The one you missed comes back on its own as a shorter round, and redrilling it spends no part of your allowance.
Scored quizzes run on every plan, Free included, and a pasted link costs exactly what an uploaded file does. Student and Genius extend a page to 30 questions.
Course material published as a web page usually has no download button, and printing it to PDF just to study it is a step nobody should have to take.
Menus, cookie banners, and related-post rails are stripped out, so the questions come from the writing rather than the site around it.
A page behind a login, a paywall, or a heavy script may return nothing readable. You are told that rather than handed questions about an empty page.
Departmental pages, lecturer notes, and niche references are exactly the material no commercial question bank will ever cover.
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Ordinary public web pages work best: a departmental course page, a revision site, a documentation page, an encyclopaedia entry, a news or magazine article. Anything you can open in a private browser window without signing in is very likely to read cleanly, because that is essentially the same access GeniusPal has. The text of the article is what gets used, and the navigation, cookie notice, sidebar, and comment section are discarded, so the questions come from the writing rather than from the furniture around it. Length is rarely an issue for a single page. Where it gets less reliable is anything that assembles itself in the browser after loading, since there may be nothing in the delivered page to read yet, and those are the cases most likely to come back empty.
No, and it will not pretend otherwise. GeniusPal fetches the page as an anonymous visitor with no session, no subscription, and no institutional access, so a university portal, a library database, a subscriber-only article, or anything gated behind a sign-in returns either a login screen or a truncated preview. When there is nothing substantial to read you are told the link produced no usable text instead of receiving a quiz assembled from a paywall notice. The workaround is the ordinary one: if you are entitled to the material, open it in your browser where you are already signed in, and either save it as a PDF and upload that or copy the text into the box directly. Both routes produce exactly the same questions as a link would have, and neither asks you to hand over credentials to anything.
For a page written as an article, yes, and the questions are indistinguishable from those you would get by saving it and uploading it. The reason to prefer the link is friction: pasting an address takes a second, while printing a page to PDF to feed it to a study tool is a chore that stops people bothering. Uploading is the better choice in two situations. The first is when the page is long enough that you only want a section of it, since pasting just that part into the box gives you a set focused on what you are actually revising. The second is when the page renders its content through script and comes back thin, in which case saving it from your own browser captures what you can see and the link cannot.
A link is charged exactly like a file, which is to say the scored quiz mode is on every plan and a Free account runs it without a card. Each of your 2 free generations turns one page into a marked test with explanations, plus as many redrills of the questions you missed as you want. What runs out is generations, granted once for the account rather than monthly, so the third page you want to study is where the plans come in. Student is $14.99 per month against 100 generations, while Genius takes $59.99 for a full year under a 1000 monthly fair-use ceiling. Paid plans also lift a page to 30 questions and unlock the flashcard and recall modes over the same page. There is no separate charge for reading a link rather than a file, and no per-page fee of any kind.
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