Practice questions from your own study material

What is an AI quiz generator, and why test yourself?

A quiz generator writes practice questions from your study material so you can test yourself. Self-testing helps because rereading makes material feel familiar, which is easy to mistake for knowing it. A question shows whether you can actually recall the answer and tell it apart from options that look almost right.

KognitiMind asks about your own uploaded material: the lecture slides, the seminar notes, the textbook chapter. That matters when your course does not follow a standard textbook, or when part of your reading list is in Hungarian and part in English: the questions are written in your account language, English or Hungarian, whatever language the source is in.

How do quizzes work in KognitiMind?

1. Upload the document. PDF, PPTX or DOCX, and on a paid plan images and scanned PDFs too.
2. Open the Quizzes tab and press Generate Quiz. Set the number of questions, from one to twenty.
3. Take the quiz. Go through the questions one by one and pick one of the four options for each. You can submit once every question has an answer.
4. Check your results. Right after submitting you see your score, how many you got right and wrong, and a detailed review with your answer, the correct answer and a short explanation for each question.

You can generate several quizzes from the same document; each one is kept with its result.

What do you get from a quiz?

• Multiple-choice practice questions from your own material, with four options each.
• Your score as soon as you submit.
• The correct answer and an explanation for every question, so you see why it is right.
• A study day on your streak: submitting a quiz counts toward it.

What does a question look like in practice?

Take a pharmacology lecture as a PDF on how drugs are absorbed and eliminated. A generated question could look like this:

Question: What does a drug's half-life describe?

• the time it takes for the drug to start working
• the time it takes for the plasma concentration to fall by half
• the time the drug stays in the body in total
• half of the maximum safe dose

After you submit, you see which option is correct, with a short explanation of what the material says about it. This is an illustration; the questions depend on your notes, and if one contradicts your source, trust the source.

How do you use quizzes well?

• Study first, then test. A quiz shows what stuck. It is not the most effective way to learn the material for the first time.
• Go back to the source for wrong answers. The explanation points you in the right direction, but read the details in the original. If something is still unclear, ask about it in the document chat.
• Keep quizzes small. A few questions on one chapter tell you more than a huge quiz on everything.
• Pair it with flashcards. What you got wrong in a quiz is worth locking in with flashcards and scheduled review.

Does it work for ZH and kollokvium prep?

It can be one part of it. Quizzes are a quick way to check, chapter by chapter, whether you remember the facts and definitions before a midterm (ZH) or an oral exam (kollokvium). They will not practise the written explanations or the problem-solving that many of these exams also ask for, so plan time for that separately.

What happens to your material?

Your documents and quizzes are visible only in your own account. To generate the questions, the relevant text is sent to the Google Gemini API. Deleting a document deletes the quizzes, flashcards and chat made from it as well.