⚡ Notes to quiz

Your notes, turned into a quiz that asks you back

Paste them in or upload the file. The questions come from the sentences you wrote, so the test covers your course rather than a generic version of your subject.

Questions per set

Bigger sets read more of your document. Included with Student and Genius.

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How are the questions written from my notes?

  1. 1

    Paste or upload them

    Type them straight into the box, or upload the Word file, Markdown, or plain text you keep them in.

  2. 2

    GeniusPal turns them into questions

    It finds the claims worth testing and writes a question for each, with wrong options that are genuinely tempting.

  3. 3

    Answer from memory

    Sit the quiz, see your score, and find out which parts of your own notes you cannot actually recall.

🗒️ See the output firstIllustrative sample

What does a quiz from my notes look like?

Four lines of modern history revision, and the marked paper that comes back after sitting the 10 questions written from them. Sample material, written by us to show the shape of the output.

The notes you pasted

Weimar republic notes, pasted

  • Versailles 1919: war guilt clause, 132bn gold marks reparations
  • Ruhr occupation Jan 1923 after missed payment, passive resistance
  • Hyperinflation peaks Nov 1923, Rentenmark introduced
  • Dawes Plan 1924 reschedules payments, US loans follow

Your marked paper

Your score

6 of 10

3 of the 10 questions

  • Correct

    What triggered the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in 1923?

  • Correct

    Which currency was introduced to halt the hyperinflation of late 1923?

  • Missed

    The Dawes Plan rescheduled reparations. Why did that make American loans central to Weimar recovery?

    Rescheduling lowered the immediate payments but left the debt in place, so recovery ran on borrowed capital that could be recalled. Your notes record the loans without recording what depending on them meant.

The four you missed come back on their own as a shorter round, and redrilling them spends no part of your allowance.

Every plan runs the scored quiz, Free included. Student and Genius take the same notes up to 30 questions and add flashcards and written recall over them.

Rereading is the trap

The notes stop being something you look at

  • Nothing to upload if you would rather paste

    Notes you typed yourself are usually faster to paste than to find and attach. The box takes them directly and treats them exactly like a file.

  • Messy notes still work

    Bullet fragments, half sentences, and your own shorthand are fine. The reader is working out what you were recording, not marking your prose.

  • It tests your syllabus

    A generic question bank tests a generic course. Notes you took in your lectures encode what your examiner cares about, and the questions inherit that.

  • The gap becomes visible

    Notes you have reread five times feel known. A score is the first honest signal about which parts of them you could not produce under pressure.

Notes in a state? Read our guide to organising your notes.

Notes to quiz questions

Can I paste my notes instead of uploading a file?

Yes, and for notes you typed yourself it is usually the faster route. The box on this page accepts pasted text directly and treats it exactly as it would treat an uploaded document, so there is no difference in the questions you get back. Uploading makes more sense when the notes live in a file you did not write, such as a handout somebody shared, or when the material is long enough that finding and attaching it beats selecting it all. Either way the same reader runs over the same text. Formatting is not something to tidy first, since headings, bullet markers, and stray numbering are all read as structure rather than content. You do not need an account to start: paste, generate, and create the free account at the point the quiz exists so there is somewhere for your score and your missed questions to be kept between sessions.

My notes are messy. Will the questions be bad?

Fragmented bullets, abbreviations, and your own shorthand are all normal input and produce perfectly usable questions. What the reader is doing is working out which claims your notes are recording, and a half sentence like "Ruhr occupied 1923, passive resistance" carries that claim as clearly as a paragraph would. Where messy notes genuinely hurt is when they are so compressed that the meaning is not recoverable from the words alone, such as a lone date with no event attached, or an arrow between two initials. Those produce thin questions because there was nothing else there. The useful test is whether a classmate reading the line cold would understand it. If they would, the questions will be fine, and if they would not, that is worth knowing about your notes before the exam rather than during it.

Is a quiz from my own notes actually better than a question bank?

For the exam in front of you, usually yes, because your notes are a record of what your lecturer chose to spend time on. A commercial bank is written against a syllabus in general, and it cannot know that your module skipped two chapters, weighted a third heavily, or used a definition that differs from the standard one. The questions here inherit those choices automatically, since they can only be about sentences you wrote down. The honest limit is the other side of the same coin: material your notes never covered cannot appear, so a gap in your notes becomes a gap in your revision rather than being caught. A bank is the better tool for checking breadth against an official specification. This is the better tool for testing the course you actually sat.

What does it cost to quiz myself on my notes?

Nothing to begin with, and the free version is not a trimmed one. Scored multiple choice is included on every tier, so each of the Free plan's 2 generations produces a full quiz on your own material, marked and explained, with redrills of your missed questions on top at no further cost. Those 2 are granted once and never refill, so a third batch of notes is the point a plan starts to matter. Student runs $14.99 monthly against 100 generations, and Genius takes $59.99 for a whole year with a fair-use ceiling of 1000 each month. Paying widens a set to 30 questions and opens flashcard and written recall over the notes you already turned into a quiz. Written recall is the mode worth the money here, because it makes you produce the answer from an empty box rather than recognise it among four options, which is much closer to what a written paper asks of you.

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