A past paper question generator that writes from your own notes

Yes, GeniusPal does this. You upload a past paper, it reads how that paper asks, and the questions it then writes from your own notes follow that style. The division of labour is strict: your notes supply every fact and every answer, and the paper supplies the way of asking. From the paper it reads the topics it keeps returning to, how it splits between choosing an option and writing an answer, how hard it pitches, and the instruction words it leans on, such as explain, compare, or evaluate. You see that description before it shapes anything, and you can rename the style or drop a topic that does not apply to your course. A general AI chat can imitate a paper if you paste one in, though you have to police it yourself for invented facts and for questions it lifted. Here the answers are tied to your notes, and a copying check runs on every styled set.

Mostly in written practice. We tested the feature in September 2026 on one 32-page biology paper whose examiner sets up a situation before asking in almost half of its questions, and written questions that did the same went from 1 in 10 to 7 in 10 once the style was applied. Multiple-choice wording moved much less, so a quiz made with a style can read very close to one made without it. The likely reason is room: a written question can carry a scenario and an instruction word, while a multiple-choice stem has to stay short and lean on its options. Written recall and typed answers come with Tryout, Student, and Genius, so a Free account can read a paper and apply its style while mostly sitting the format where the effect is smallest. Treat those numbers as one paper and one set of notes. A paper made almost entirely of multiple-choice questions will give you less to notice than one full of structured written answers.

Anything the uploader accepts works, which means a PDF, a Word document, a PowerPoint, or a plain text file, provided the questions are real text on the page. A scanned or photographed past paper is refused for now, because the picture reading that rescues scanned notes is only used on study material. Upload the question paper itself, since a mark scheme or answer key is turned away with a message saying so. The paper needs at least 5 questions before there is any pattern to read, and with fewer than 12 the style is still built while the review tells you how thin the evidence is. About 50 pages are read, which covers most exams, and a longer document is read from its opening with the review stating which pages were used. Each style comes from one paper, so a second paper makes a second style. If a read fails, nothing is used up and you can try again.

No, and be wary of anything that says it can. A past paper shows how one examiner asked about one syllabus in one sitting. GeniusPal reads that shape and uses it to set how your practice questions are asked, which makes them a closer rehearsal of the format. It has no knowledge of any future paper, and nothing it writes should be read as a forecast of which topics will appear. The topic weights it reports describe the paper you uploaded. If a topic came up heavily there, expect more of it in your practice wherever your notes cover it, and remember that the people setting your exam are free to do something different. A topic the paper skipped can still appear, so keep your coverage anchored to the syllabus your course has published, and generate sets across all of your notes. An estimate from one paper, never a prediction of what your exam will ask.

Nothing from the paper is copied into your set. What GeniusPal keeps from the reading is a description of it: the topics and how much weight each gets, the split between question formats, a difficulty band, the instruction words it uses, and at most three example questions rewritten in different words. Those rewrites are checked against the paper and dropped if they quote it, and every question generated with the style goes through the same check, so one that repeats a run of the wording is removed before you see it. The paper itself is sent to our AI model provider to be read, and it is stored against your account until you delete it. Deleting the style deletes the paper with it, file and description together. A style belongs to the account that made it, and nobody else can apply it. The privacy policy describes all of this in the same terms.

Reading a past paper is included on every plan, Free included, as unlimited papers under a fair-use policy. Making questions from it is what the allowance counts, the same as any other set. Free gives an account 2 study sets for life, with no card. Tryout is $7.99 a week for 15 sets, Student is $14.99 a month for 100, and Genius is $59.99 a year under a fair-use ceiling of 1000 sets a month. The plan matters more here than on other pages, because written practice is where a style shows most and it comes with Tryout, Student, and Genius. On Free the style still applies, and you will mostly be sitting multiple choice, where the wording moves least. An account with no sets left cannot apply a style, since there would be nothing for it to shape. Re-sitting a set you already have costs nothing on any plan, so one styled set can carry several rounds of practice.