PDF to Quiz
Upload a PDF — lecture notes, a textbook chapter or slides — and get a quiz with answers in seconds.
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Use a paragraph from your notes, a textbook or an article. Questions appear in seconds.
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Reading a PDF over and over is one of the least effective ways to study. Testing yourself on it is one of the best. Quizbot turns your PDF into questions automatically: upload the file, choose the question type and how many questions you want, and it reads the document and writes a quiz with an answer key, based only on what’s in your file.
Example: questions from a lecture-notes PDF on the water cycle
Uploaded file: geography-week3-water-cycle.pdf (12 pages)
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Multiple Choice
Which process returns water vapour from plants to the atmosphere? A) Infiltration B) Transpiration C) Runoff D) Precipitation
Answer: B) Transpiration
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True / False
Condensation happens when water vapour cools and turns back into liquid droplets.
Answer: True
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Fill in the Blanks
Water that soaks into the ground and refills aquifers is called ________.
Answer: infiltration (groundwater recharge)
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Open-Ended
Explain how deforestation can increase surface runoff.
Answer: Fewer roots and less leaf cover mean less interception and infiltration, so more water flows over the surface.
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Upload a PDF or Word file in the box at the top of this page, choose the question type, and you get 5 questions with answers. Your file is not stored. Files can be up to 5 MB, the questions come from the first pages, and you get 3 free tries a day.
With a free account you can upload up to 4 files of 20 MB each, make longer quizzes, use scanned PDFs, and save and export your quiz.
Which PDFs work best
PDFs with real text, such as lecture notes, handouts and textbook chapters, give the best questions. A PDF made from photos or a scanner has no text to read directly, so it needs a free account.
One chapter at a time gives sharper questions than a whole book. If your file opens with a cover and a long table of contents, cut it down to the pages you are studying first. Questions are written in the language of your document unless you choose another one.
Why turning a PDF into a quiz helps you learn
Re-reading feels productive but mostly builds familiarity, not memory. Retrieval practice — answering questions without looking at the text — is one of the most reliable ways to remember what you study. Converting your PDF into a quiz gives you that practice without spending an evening writing questions yourself.
Because the questions come only from your file, the quiz covers exactly what your lecturer or textbook covers, in the same terms.
Long PDFs and multiple files
You can upload up to four files in one go — for example the lecture slides, the handout and a past paper — and Quizbot writes questions across all of them. For a long textbook, upload one chapter at a time for sharper, more focused questions.
Quizbot works with typed PDFs as well as Word and PowerPoint files, and you can generate questions in the language you study in, even if it differs from the language of the document.
PDF to quiz with an AI chatbot vs Quizbot
General chatbots can read a PDF, but long files often get summarised or cut short, and you still need to copy the questions somewhere to use them. Quizbot is designed for this one job: it keeps an answer key with every quiz, balances correct answers across the options, saves your quizzes for later, and lets you play them online or export them in one click.
Frequently asked questions
How do I turn a PDF into a quiz?
Upload your PDF in the box on this page, choose the question type and click generate. You get 5 questions with answers in seconds, with no account. For more questions, sign up free, open the generator and upload your file there.
Do I need an account?
Not to try it. You get 3 free tries a day on this page. A free account lets you upload bigger files, use scanned PDFs, make longer quizzes and save or export them.
Is the PDF to quiz converter free?
Yes. You can try it on this page without an account, and a free account, with no credit card, comes with 20 free questions. Multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blanks and open-ended questions are included on the free plan.
How large can my PDF be?
On this page, up to 5 MB with no account. With a free account, each file can be up to 20 MB and you can upload up to 4 files at once.
Can I upload Word or PowerPoint files too?
Yes. Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files work the same way as PDFs.
Will the questions only come from my PDF?
Yes. Quizbot writes the questions from the content of the files you upload, so the quiz matches your material.