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How to make a quiz from a PDF
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Short answer
To make a quiz from a PDF, upload it to an AI quiz generator, optionally name the chapters or topics to cover, and generate multiple-choice questions. Then check each answer against the document. PDFBetter's PDF to quiz writes questions with three to five options, rotates the correct answer's position, and attaches a quote from the cited page to every correct answer, dropping any question it can't verify. A quiz costs 2 AI credits.
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Step by step
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Open PDF to quiz
Upload one to five PDFs — a policy, a manual, course reading — and sign in with a free account. “Quiz” is preselected.
- 2
Add a focus
Name the section or topic, such as “expense limits” or “chapter 3”. You can also ask for the questions in another language.
- 3
Generate
Five questions are written on this page. In a document workspace you can choose 3, 5, 8 or 10.
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Answer and check
Pick an option and press Check answer. You see whether you were right, a one-sentence explanation and a link to the source page.
1Your PDF
2Ask or summarize
3Answers that cite pages
Get questions worth asking
Questions are about facts stated in the documents: numbers, dates, obligations, definitions and findings. Focus on the parts people get wrong in practice — limits, deadlines, exceptions — rather than the whole document.
A quiz tests recall of what the documents say, not whether they are right. If a policy is out of date, the quiz will be too.
Limits
Questions are multiple choice only — no flashcards, open questions or true/false — and there's no export to a learning platform. Scanned PDFs need OCR first. Document text is sent to OpenAI's API, whose API data-usage terms by default exclude API data from model training.
Tools used in this guide
- PDF to quizUpload one to five PDFs, answer multiple-choice questions on screen, and see the quote and page behind each correct answer.
- PDF to audio briefUpload one to five PDFs and get a short MP3 summary to listen to, with a transcript where every part links to its source page.
- PDF to briefUpload one to five PDFs and get a short report with headed sections, where every claim links to the page it came from.
- Chat with PDFUpload a PDF and ask questions in plain language; every answer points to the pages it is based on.
Questions people ask
Can I share the quiz with my team?
Not as a quiz link. Quizzes are saved in your workspace; workspaces can't be shared with team members yet.
Why did I get fewer questions than I asked for?
Questions whose quote couldn't be found on the cited page are removed. Add more material or widen the focus.
Can it make flashcards?
No. Each question with its answer and explanation can serve as a study card, but there's no flashcard mode.
What does it cost?
2 AI credits per quiz, whatever the number of questions. The Free plan includes 20 AI credits a month.