Make a Quiz From Any PDF or Notes in Seconds
Upload a reading or your own notes and get a practice quiz you can share with students by link or QR code. Review it before sharing.
Your students are tested on what you taught, in the order you taught it, using your readings and your examples. Practice questions help most when they come from those same materials. Writing them yourself is what takes the time.
Where quiz-making breaks down for teachers
Writing good questions takes hours
A solid ten-question quiz with plausible wrong answers can take an evening to write. Upload the reading or handout you already use, set the difficulty and number of questions, and BrainLift drafts a quiz from your material. You spend your time reviewing questions instead of writing them from scratch.
Students need retrieval practice between tests
Most learning happens when students pull information back from memory, but class time is limited and graded tests come only every few weeks. A short practice quiz shared after a lesson gives them a low-pressure way to recall it at home, with an explanation for every answer.
Practice has to feel low stakes
Students who are anxious about grades avoid practice that feels like a test. A BrainLift quiz is self-paced and ungraded, and it rewards effort with XP, streaks, and daily quests. When students miss questions, "practice my mistakes" turns those into flashcards they can review on a spaced schedule.
What a generated quiz looks like for a classroom reading
This sample comes from a middle school reading on photosynthesis.
1. What do plants take in to carry out photosynthesis? A) Oxygen and glucose B) Carbon dioxide and water (correct) C) Nitrogen and oxygen D) Glucose and water Why: Plants combine carbon dioxide and water, using light energy, to make glucose and release oxygen.
2. Through which structures does carbon dioxide enter a leaf? A) Roots B) Stomata (correct) C) Xylem D) Petals Why: Stomata are small openings, mostly on the underside of leaves, that let gases in and out.
3. Which pigment absorbs the light energy plants use? A) Chlorophyll (correct) B) Hemoglobin C) Melanin D) Keratin Why: Chlorophyll in the chloroplasts captures light, which is also why leaves look green.
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Overall equation for photosynthesis | 6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2 |
| Chloroplast | The organelle where photosynthesis happens |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
| Main product plants store for energy | Glucose |
Read through every generated question against your reading before you send it to students, the same way you would check a quiz from any outside source.
How it works
- Upload a PDF reading, photograph your lesson notes, or type the topic you just taught.
- Choose the difficulty and question count, take the quiz yourself, and check each question.
- Share it with your class through a link or a QR code on the board.
Study habits that work for your students
Short, frequent quizzes help more than one big review before the unit test. Students in a classic experiment remembered more after a week when they practiced recalling a passage than when they studied it again (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006). A two-minute quiz at the start of class on last week's lesson is an easy place to begin.
Explanations matter as much as the score. Encourage students to read why each wrong answer is wrong, then revisit the questions they missed a few days later. Our post on turning a textbook PDF into practice questions shows how to get focused questions from long readings, and the guide to learning from practice test mistakes is worth passing on to students. If you have used Quizlet with classes before, our BrainLift vs Quizlet comparison explains the differences honestly.
To build your first quiz from this week's reading, create a free account on the web.
FAQ
Do students need an account?
Anyone with the link can preview a shared quiz. To take it and keep its flashcards in their own spaced review, students sign up for a free BrainLift account.
Does it connect to my school's LMS or show class results?
No. BrainLift does not integrate with learning management systems and does not provide a class grade book or analytics. It is a way to make and share practice material.
Can I trust the questions as written?
Treat them as a draft. AI-generated questions can contain mistakes, so review each one against your source before sharing, and regenerate if a quiz misses the focus you want.