PDF to Quiz Generator: turn any PDF into a practice test

Yes. ChatGPT can read an uploaded PDF and write quiz questions when you ask it to, and for a quick quiz on a short document it does a decent job. The work shifts to you as the file gets longer and the studying gets more serious: you write and refine the prompt, check that the questions cover the whole document rather than the first few pages, reformat the answers if you want them in Quizlet, Anki or an LMS, and remember to come back to the ones you got wrong.

If you use ChatGPT, a specific prompt helps: "Write 15 multiple-choice questions from chapter 3 of this PDF. Give four options, one correct answer, a one-line explanation, and quote the sentence each answer comes from." Asking for the quote makes made-up answers easier to spot.

QuerySpark handles those steps for you. The quiz arrives as a study set with the explanation next to every answer, the source passage on most questions, eight export formats and spaced review for your misses. ChatGPT is the better tool when you want to talk a concept through; a dedicated generator is the better tool when you want to drill a chapter until you know it.

Yes, with limits, and it is worth knowing exactly where they are. Every new QuerySpark account gets a 3-day Pro trial with no credit card. When it ends you move to the free plan, which includes 10 PDF pages, 20 generated questions and 1 study session a month, with files up to 5 MB. Everything you made during the trial stays in your account.

No sign up: uploading a PDF needs a free account, but the no sign-up question generator takes pasted text. Copy a page or two out of your PDF (up to 6,000 characters), paste it in, and you get multiple-choice questions with explanations, 3 times a day.

Unlimited: we do not offer unlimited free generation. If you need a lot, Student is $9/month (or $7/month billed yearly) for 500 PDF pages and 1,000 questions a month, and Educator removes the monthly caps. See full pricing.

QuerySpark does not publish straight into Quizlet, but the move takes a couple of minutes:

1. Generate the quiz from your PDF, then export it as CSV with answers included.
2. Open the CSV in Google Sheets or Excel. It has a column for the question text and one for the correct answer.
3. Copy those two columns. Copying from a spreadsheet gives you tab-separated text.
4. In Quizlet, create a set, choose Import, paste, and select Tab between term and definition.

Each question becomes a term with its answer as the definition. The wrong options and the explanation stay behind, because Quizlet's import only takes term and definition pairs. If you want classic two-sided cards in Quizlet, generate a flashcard deck instead; its CSV has just Front and Back columns. More on that in QuerySpark vs Quizlet.

For students, practice test mode turns the same PDF into a scored run: you answer every question first, see your score at the end, then work through explanations for the ones you missed. It is the closest thing to sitting the exam, which makes it a better final check than flicking through questions one at a time.

For teachers, generate from your handout or reading, edit any question you would word differently, then either export it (QTI for Canvas, Blackboard and D2L, Moodle XML, or Word and PDF for a paper test) or assign it inside QuerySpark to a class that joins with a code. You see each student's progress and score. Read every question before it goes to students; the AI can misread a table or miss context the rest of your course supplies. The question generator for teachers page covers the classroom side in detail.