Quiz Generator

How to use Quiz Generator

1. Open Quiz Generator — no sign-up, and nothing to install.
2. Add your study material: one or more PDF or Word (.docx) files. Several files are treated as a single body of material, so a quiz can span a whole set of notes.
3. Narrow it down if you want to: give each file a page range (all, 1,5,7,9 or 2-7) — PDF pages are exact, Word pages come from the file where it records them and are estimated where it does not — and click any detected topic to leave it out.
4. Set how many questions you want of each type — multiple choice, choose-all-that-apply, true/false, fill in the blank, short answer, definitions and matching each have their own number. Each one shows roughly how many your material can support.
5. Pick a difficulty if you want one, and how many options each multiple-choice question should have.
6. Click Generate. The questions are built in your browser from sentences your documents actually contain, then shown for you to check.
7. Download the paper and its answer key as PDF, Word or plain text. Your documents are never uploaded.

Why use Quiz Generator?

• 100% free with no limits, no sign-up and no watermarks.
• Private by design — your files are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
• Fast and lightweight, with instant results even on a phone or a slow connection.
• Works everywhere — any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
• Part of a full pdf tools suite, so related quiz tasks are one click away.

What people use Quiz Generator for

• Setting conceptual questions — how a mechanism works, how two ideas differ — rather than pure recall, from material you already teach from.
• Turning a lecture handout or textbook chapter into a revision quiz before an exam.
• Building a quick comprehension check from the training manual a new starter has just been given.
• Making a printable worksheet with an answer key from your own teaching notes, without retyping any of it.
• Producing several different papers from the same material, so a class does not all sit an identical test.
• Quizzing one chapter of a long PDF at a time by giving the page range, rather than splitting the file first.
• Self-testing on a set of notes: generate questions, answer them, then check against the key.

Quiz Generator: limits and things worth knowing

• No AI model is involved, and nothing is invented. Every question is assembled from sentences your documents already contain — a multiple-choice question's correct answer is the definition your material gives for a term, and the wrong options are the definitions it gives for other terms. Because nothing is written from scratch, no question can state a fact your source does not.
• The material you feed it matters more than any setting. Explanatory prose with clear definitions — "X is a ...", "X refers to ...", "X means ..." — is what most question types are built from. Slide decks of bullet fragments and pages of tables produce far fewer questions.
• Short answer and the Conceptual multiple-choice style ask about understanding rather than recall: how something works, how two things of the same category differ, or how two terms connect. They are built only where the material states the link itself — a "... by ..." clause, two definitions sharing a category, or two defined terms in one sentence — so the question probes comprehension without the tool inferring anything your source does not say. Straight "What is X?" recall stays in the Definitions type, so the two never duplicate each other.
• Multiple-choice options come in three shapes. Long statements asks which description fits a term, so the options are full descriptions and there can only be as many questions as your material has definitions. Short terms blanks the key term out of a sentence and offers a list of terms instead — that works on any sentence mentioning a defined term, so it yields considerably more questions from the same documents. The Conceptual style asks how or why instead. A mix rotates between all three.
• Every file has its own page range, so a 300-page book can be quizzed one chapter at a time: type all, 1,5,7,9 or 2-7. PDF page numbers are exact. A .docx stores no pagination of its own, so its pages come either from the boundaries Word left behind when it last laid the file out, or — for a file nothing has ever paginated, such as a Google Docs export — from an estimate based on how much text fits on a page. Estimated pages say so, and a page break you inserted yourself is always obeyed exactly.
• The topics your material covers are listed as soon as it is read — from the document's own headings where it has them, and from the most distinctive words in each passage where it does not. Leave any of them out with a click, and see afterwards how many the paper actually covered.
• Difficulty is what a question makes you do, not how long it is: recall of one stated fact is easy, choosing among plausible alternatives is medium, and reasoning across the material is hard. Because every question is assembled rather than written, the operation it demands is known exactly — so each question carries its true difficulty, and the mix you got is reported rather than promised.
• Two questions on one paper are never allowed to answer each other. A matching exercise pairs five terms with their descriptions, so nothing else on that paper may define those terms; a sentence printed whole is never also printed with a gap in it. This is why asking for several types at once can yield fewer than the per-type figures suggest — those figures are what each type could give you on its own.
• With "Ask the same material more than one way" ticked, a term already used can be asked about again in a different form once every unused one is spent — defined in one question, gapped in another. It never asks the same question twice.
• Each type shows how many questions your material can support before you generate. That figure is produced by actually building them and counting what survives, not by estimating, so the number you see is the number you get.
• If a type produces fewer questions than you asked for, the tool says so and says why. Multiple choice needs several definitions to build plausible wrong answers and matching needs five per question; when there are not enough it builds fewer rather than padding the paper.
• Add as many PDFs and Word files as you like — they are treated as one body of material, and each question records which file it came from.
• A scanned PDF has no text layer to read, so there is nothing to build questions from. Run it through OCR first.
• Half the true/false statements are altered so the answer is genuinely false. Those are labelled "Altered from" rather than "Source", because your document does not say them.

Is it private and secure?

Your privacy is built in. Quiz Generator does all processing on your own device using client-side code, so your files are never transmitted, stored or seen by anyone — including us.

Network activity: none. Nothing is sent and nothing is fetched. This tool makes no network request at all once the page has loaded — which is why it keeps working if your connection drops.

You do not have to take that on trust — our privacy proof page publishes the Content-Security-Policy that enforces it, lists every third party it permits, and shows how to verify the whole claim yourself.

We also measured the competition. Our PDF upload audit recorded how many bytes each of 20 online PDF tools actually transmits: 12 of the 13 measurable services uploaded the whole test file, and Filevane transmitted 0.00 MB.

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