Notes to quiz: turn your notes into a quiz
Upload your notes and QuerySpark writes quizzes from what is actually in it, so you can quiz yourself on exactly what your course covers. Pasted text, or .txt and .md files.
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How do you turn your notes into quizzes?
Paste your notes and QuerySpark turns them into multiple choice, true or false or short-answer questions with an explanation for each, in about a minute. You can try it free with no account: the question generator takes up to 6,000 characters of pasted notes, 3 times a day. With a free account you can upload longer notes, track your scores and get missed questions back later. The free plan allows 20 questions a month after a 3-day Pro trial.
- No sign up: 6,000 characters of notes, 3 times a day
- Questions only use what is in your notes
- Every answer explained
- Paste from Notion, OneNote, Google Docs or Apple Notes
How it works
How to turn your notes into quizzes
- 01
Copy your notes
Select the notes for one topic or lecture in whatever app you use and copy them. Formatting is dropped; the text is kept.
- 02
Paste them in
Without an account, paste up to 6,000 characters into the question generator. With an account, paste any length or upload a .txt or .md file.
- 03
Answer before you look
Commit to an answer for each question, then read the explanation. Guessing and checking is what makes the quiz stick.
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Fix the gaps in your notes
When a question exposes something your notes explain badly, rewrite that part of your notes. The next quiz from them will be better too.
Example
Quiz from ECON 101 notes
A sample of what you get from your notes on economics. Yours is written from your own file.
Question 1 · Multiple choice
If a 10% price rise cuts quantity demanded by 20%, what is the price elasticity of demand?
- -0.5
- -1
- -2
- -20
PED = % change in quantity / % change in price = -20 / 10 = -2, so demand is elastic.
Question 2 · Multiple choice
A seller of a good with inelastic demand raises its price. What happens to total revenue?
- It falls
- It rises
- It stays the same
- It cannot be determined
With inelastic demand quantity falls proportionally less than price rises, so revenue goes up.
What your quizzes include
- Multiple choice, true or false and short-answer questions written from your material
- An explanation for every answer, plus the passage it came from
- Distractors that are plausible, not obviously wrong
- Correct answers spread across A to D, so you cannot game the pattern
How you study them
Answer one question at a time with instant feedback. Wrong answers come back later in the session, and the ones you keep missing move into your review queue.
Best for: checking you understood a chapter, quick revision before class, finding weak spots early.
How we read notes
Paste notes straight in, any length from a paragraph to a full unit. Short notes produce a small, focused set; longer notes are split into topics first so coverage stays even.
Get the best results
- Write in full sentences where you can.
- Include the definitions and the examples your teacher used.
- Add your exam date so reviews are paced to it.
Turn notes into a quiz for free, without signing up
Go to the question generator on the AI question generator page and paste your notes. It accepts up to 6,000 characters, which is roughly 1,000 words or two to three pages of typed notes, and returns real multiple choice questions with explanations. You can do it 3 times a day per visitor with no account.
Notes longer than that, uploaded files, flashcards and study guides need a free account. New accounts start with a 3-day Pro trial with no card, and after it the free plan includes 20 questions a month.
Getting notes out of Notion, OneNote, Goodnotes or Obsidian
Most apps only need copy and paste. A few have a better route.
- Notion: copy the page, or export it as Markdown and upload the .md file.
- Obsidian: your notes are already .md files, so upload them directly.
- OneNote, Apple Notes and Google Keep: select all, copy and paste.
- Goodnotes, Notability and paper notes: handwriting is not text yet, so export the pages as images or PDF and use the photo of notes converter, which reads neat handwriting with OCR.
Can ChatGPT make a quiz from my notes?
Yes. Paste your notes into ChatGPT and ask for a quiz, and it will write one. It is flexible: you can ask for harder questions, a different format or an explanation of something you got wrong.
Two things to watch. A general chatbot will happily fill gaps in your notes with outside knowledge, which is useful for learning but means you can be quizzed on things your course never covered. And you mark yourself. QuerySpark writes only from what your notes say, sizes the set to how much they contain rather than padding it, and keeps score.
Write notes that make good quiz questions
A list of terms gives you recall questions and nothing else. Notes that include the because give you questions about cause, which is what most exams ask. "Inelastic demand: price rise, revenue rises" supports one question; "revenue rises because quantity falls proportionally less than price" supports a question you have to reason through.
Spell out abbreviations once, keep the worked examples your teacher used, and write definitions in full. Each of those turns into a better question.
Quizzing a study group from shared notes
If one person in the group takes the best notes, make one set from them and publish it. Published sets can be studied by anyone with the link, no account needed, so everyone works from the same questions and you can compare which ones tripped you up.
Things that trip people up with notes
Very short notes (a few lines) produce only a handful of questions. That is intentional: we do not invent facts that are not in your text.
Abbreviations only you understand can confuse the model. Spell out key terms once.
Questions about notes to quiz
Copy your notes, paste them into QuerySpark and generate. You get explained multiple choice, true or false or short-answer questions in about a minute.
Yes. The question generator takes up to 6,000 characters of pasted notes, 3 times a day, with no account. Longer notes and uploads need a free account.
Yes. QuerySpark writes questions only from the notes you give it, so very short notes give a short quiz rather than invented content.
Make flashcards from the notes instead of a quiz, export them as CSV and paste the two columns into Quizlet's Import box. Quizlet sets are term and definition pairs, which is the flashcard shape.
Yes. Take a photo of each page, or export pages from Goodnotes or Notability as images or PDF, and upload them. Neat handwriting is read with OCR.
About 80 characters is the minimum, but a page or more gives a proper quiz. The number of questions follows how much your notes actually contain.
Yes, and lecture notes are a good source because they reflect what was emphasised in class. Paste one lecture at a time for a focused quiz.
About 80 characters is the minimum, but a page or more of notes gives a proper set. We size the set to your material instead of padding it.
Yes. Copy and paste works from any notes app; formatting is ignored, the text is kept.
Every question is validated before you see it, so the answer is always one of the options, and most show the quote from your material they were written from. You can edit any question.
Yes, to start. New accounts get a 3-day Pro trial with no credit card. After the trial the free plan includes 1 study session, 20 questions and 10 PDF pages a month, and you keep everything you made. You can also try the question generator on pasted text without an account, 3 times a day.
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