Generate MCQ from PDF: AI Multiple Choice Question Generator

A multiple choice question has three parts: the stem (the question), the key (the correct answer) and the distractors (the wrong options). Whether you write them yourself or check an AI's, the same rules apply:

• The stem is a complete question. A reader should be able to answer it before seeing the options. "Mitochondria:" followed by four statements is a true/false quiz in disguise.
• One best answer. If an expert could argue for two options, rewrite the weaker one.
• Options look alike. Same length, same grammar, same level of detail. The longest, most qualified option is often the key, and test-wise students know it.
• Avoid all of the above and none of the above. Spotting two correct options gives away "all of the above" without knowing the third.
• Be careful with negatives. If you must ask which option is NOT true, make the NOT impossible to miss.

Test the stem, not the reading. A question whose answer is the only option that repeats a word from the stem is testing pattern matching, not knowledge.

Good distractors are wrong answers a student who half-knows the topic would pick. The best sources are:

• Common misconceptions. In the mitochondria example below, "protein synthesis" works because students confuse organelles.
• Near neighbours from the same chapter. Other antibiotic classes, other court cases, other enzymes in the same pathway.
• True statements that do not answer the question. Correct facts that are irrelevant to this stem test whether the student read the question.
• Partial answers. One stage of a process when the question asks for the whole thing.

Avoid joke options, absolutes like "always" and "never" that are obviously wrong, and options that differ only in punctuation. That last one is something QuerySpark's checks catch automatically.

No PDF? Paste text instead. The free generator takes up to 6,000 characters without an account and returns five multiple-choice questions with four options each, an explanation and a supporting quote. It is a quick way to check whether an AI-written MCQ meets the rules above before you sign up.

With an account you can paste text into a study set as well, and also use Word files, slides, photos of notes and YouTube links. If you want other question types alongside, the AI quiz generator mixes multiple choice with true/false, short answer and essay.

Once you have edited the set, export it in the format your platform expects. QTI imports into Canvas, Blackboard and D2L. Moodle XML goes into Moodle through the question bank's import, with Moodle XML selected as the format. Word and PDF are there for paper tests, with or without the answer key.

You can also skip the LMS: assign the set to a class inside QuerySpark, students join with a code, and you see each student's progress and score. Questions are single answer only, so if your bank needs multiple-response items, adjust those after import. More on classroom use on the question generator for teachers page.