What is an MCQ generator?

An MCQ generator is a tool that creates multiple choice questions for you, complete with a stem, several answer options and the correct one marked. Instead of writing each question and its distractors by hand, you give the tool your source material and it drafts the questions. PDFQuiz reads a PDF, Word file, slide deck or pasted text you upload and produces ready-to-edit MCQs with an answer key.

How do I generate MCQ questions from a PDF?

Upload the PDF, choose how many questions you want, and let the AI write them. PDFQuiz reads the full document, including scanned pages handled with OCR, finds the testable facts and ideas, and drafts each multiple choice question with answer options and the correct answer. You then edit the draft and export it to PDF or Word. The whole process takes about a minute.

Can AI generate MCQs?

Yes. AI is well suited to drafting multiple choice questions because it can read your material, identify key points and write plausible distractors quickly. PDFQuiz uses AI to turn your document into a full set of MCQs with options and an answer key in seconds. You review and customize the draft, which keeps the speed of AI while making sure each question says exactly what you mean.

What makes a good multiple choice question?

A good multiple choice question has a clear stem, one unambiguous correct answer and distractors that are wrong but believable. The distractors are the hard part, because options that are obviously off let students guess. PDFQuiz drafts distractors from the same source material so they stay on topic, and you can edit any option to fine-tune how challenging each question is.

Can I create MCQs from text instead of a file?

Yes. You do not need a file to use the MCQ generator. Paste your text straight into the tool and it generates multiple choice questions from that content the same way it does from an upload. This is handy when you only have a passage, an article or a set of notes rather than a finished PDF or Word document.

How many MCQs should a test have?

Ten to fifteen for a chapter quiz, twenty five to forty for a unit test, and fifty or more for a midterm or final. The practical constraint is time: allow roughly one minute per straightforward recall item and closer to two for anything requiring a calculation or a scenario. Below ten items each question swings the score too far, so a single misread costs a competent student a letter grade.

How many answer options should an MCQ have?

Four is the convention, but three is often better. Research on option counts has repeatedly found that most four and five option items effectively function as three option items anyway, because one distractor is implausible enough that almost nobody picks it. A fourth option you had to invent to fill space adds guessing noise rather than difficulty. Write three strong distractors or write two.

Do you need an answer key with generated MCQs?

Yes, and it should come out of the same pass that wrote the questions. A key maintained separately drifts the moment you delete an item and forget to renumber, which is the most common grading error on paper tests. PDFQuiz marks the correct option as it drafts, and exports the student copy and the answer key as two separate files.

How do you check if an AI-generated multiple choice question is any good?

Cover the options and try to answer the question from the stem alone. If you cannot, the stem is underspecified and needs more detail. That single test, called the cover-the-options rule in the NBME Item-Writing Guide, catches most weak generated items in a few seconds. Then check that every option is homogeneous, judged true or false on one dimension, and that the correct answer is not the longest or most detailed choice.

What are the most common flaws in multiple choice questions?

The NBME Item-Writing Guide sorts them into two families. Flaws that add irrelevant difficulty include long or complex options, inconsistent numeric formats, vague frequency terms, None of the above, nonparallel options, complicated stems and negatively phrased lead-ins. Flaws that cue a test-wise student include grammatical cues, collectively exhaustive options, absolute terms such as always or never, a correct option that stands out, word repetition between stem and answer, and convergence.

How do I make an MCQ test online?

Upload the source material to an MCQ maker, set the number of questions and the difficulty, then edit and export. PDFQuiz reads a PDF, Word file, slide deck, image or pasted text, writes each stem with its options and marks the correct answer, and exports the test and its answer key as two separate PDF or Word files so you can hand out the student copy on its own.

What is the best MCQ generator?

The best MCQ generator turns your own material into fair questions fastest while leaving you in control of the wording and the answer key. PDFQuiz reads your document and drafts multiple choice questions with plausible distractors in seconds, lets you edit every stem and option, and exports to PDF or Word with the answers marked. Because it works from your file, the questions match what you actually taught.

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PDFQuiz is an AI MCQ generator that writes multiple choice questions straight from your own material. Upload a PDF, Word file, slide deck, image or pasted text, and the tool produces each question with three or four answer options and the correct one marked. You edit anything you want, set how many questions you need, and export a clean answer key. Because the questions come from your document, they test the exact content you teach or assess, not a generic version of the topic.

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An MCQ generator turns your material into multiple choice questions automatically. Upload a PDF, Word file, slide deck, image or pasted text, and the AI writes each question stem, three or four answer options and marks the correct one, then builds an answer key. PDFQuiz draws the questions from your own document, so they test the exact content you teach or study, not a generic version of the topic. You set the number of questions, edit anything the AI drafts, and export to PDF or Word. The whole set is ready in under a minute.

Inputs accepted: PDF, Word, PPT, images
Each MCQ includes: Options + answer key
Export formats: PDF and Word

What makes a strong multiple choice question

The stem is only half the work. The distractors, the wrong options, decide whether a question really measures understanding or just gets guessed. Here is what to check on every generated MCQ before you use it.

Part of the MCQ	What good looks like	Common weakness to fix
Stem (the question)	States one clear problem, readable on its own	Two ideas crammed into one question
Correct option	Clearly right to someone who knows the material	Longest or most detailed option, which gives it away
Distractors	Plausible, based on real misconceptions	Obviously silly options a guesser rules out
Option set	Similar length and grammar, one right answer	"All of the above" or two options that overlap
Answer key	Correct answer marked, ready to score	No key, so scoring is manual

PDFQuiz drafts plausible distractors from the source text, then you can tighten any option in the editor before you export.

How many options should a multiple choice question have?

Three. Not four, which is what almost every generated draft produces by default and what most people assume is standard. Michael Rodriguez's 2005 meta-analysis in Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, synthesizing 80 years of research, found that three-option items hold up as well psychometrically as four- or five-option items, and that you can fit more of them into the same testing time, which improves how much of the material the test actually covers.

The mechanism is not mysterious. The fourth distractor is almost always the weakest one, because writing two genuinely plausible wrong answers is hard and writing three is harder. A distractor nobody selects contributes nothing except reading time, and reading time is the resource you are spending when you could be asking another question instead.

Options per item	Guess rate	What it costs you	When to use it
2 (true or false)	50%	Guessing swamps the signal on any single item	Quick comprehension checks where you ask many items, not graded assessments
3 (recommended)	33%	Least reading time per item, so more items fit in the same window	The default for most quizzes. Two strong distractors beat three mediocre ones
4 (the common default)	25%	The fourth option is usually the throwaway, and it still costs reading time	Fine when you genuinely have three real misconceptions to test, or when a format is imposed on you
5	20%	Two throwaway options, and noticeably longer items	Standardized exams where the format is fixed. Rarely worth choosing on purpose

The practical move on a generated draft: read the four options, delete the one you would not have written yourself, and keep the item at three. That single edit is faster than rewriting a weak distractor and it usually improves the question. If you would keep all four, that is the sign you had three real misconceptions to test, and the fourth option is earning its place.

Source: Rodriguez, M. C. (2005), Three Options Are Optimal for Multiple-Choice Items: A Meta-Analysis of 80 Years of Research, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 24(2).

Why three wins

Your four option questions are already three option questions

The option count finding sounds like a style preference until you look at what happens to the fourth option in practice. A distractor only does work if some students actually choose it. Measurement researchers call one that nobody picks a non functioning distractor, and the usual threshold is simple: fewer than five percent of test takers select it.

Counted that way, the fourth option mostly is not there. Haladyna and Downing, reviewing 477 items across four assessments, found that roughly two thirds of four option items had only one or two functioning distractors, that over 38 percent of all distractors were selected by fewer than five percent of students, and that none of the five option items had four functioning distractors. The share of items carrying three genuinely functioning distractors ranged from 1.1 to 8.4 percent. In a separate 200 item physician exam, no item had four functioning distractors.

What you wrote	What the data says it behaves like	What that costs you
Four options, three real misconceptions	A true four option item. Rare, and worth keeping.	Nothing. This is the case where the fourth option earns its place.
Four options, one filler	A three option item, which is the most common outcome	Writing time on an option nobody reads, and a slightly longer item to get through
Four options, two fillers	A two option item wearing a disguise	The real guess rate is 50 percent, not the 25 percent the format implies
Five options, standard exam format	Still three at best. Four functioning distractors did not appear in the data.	Two invented options per item, multiplied across the whole test

This is the mechanism behind the Rodriguez result. Three options are not optimal because shorter tests are somehow better. They are optimal because the fourth and fifth options were never really working, so removing them costs nothing measurable and buys back the time to ask more questions. That last part is where the actual gain sits: more items covering more of the material is a bigger improvement to a test than any single item edit.

It also gives you a concrete way to review a generated draft. Rather than judging each distractor on whether it looks reasonable, ask whether any student who studied would plausibly pick it. If the answer is no, it is a filler, and deleting it makes the item both shorter and more honest about its guess rate. Two strong distractors beat three weak ones, and a question whose wrong options come from your own source material starts with better raw material than one assembled from a generic bank. Our breakdown of how to write multiple choice distractors covers what separates a working option from filler.

Source: Haladyna, T. M. and Downing, S. M. (1993), How Many Options Is Enough for a Multiple-Choice Test Item?, Educational and Psychological Measurement, 53(4), 999 to 1010. Non functioning distractor threshold and item counts as reported in subsequent descriptive analyses of the same data.

What an MCQ generator does

Write multiple choice questions in minutes, not hours

An MCQ generator builds multiple choice questions for you instead of making you write each stem, the correct answer and three plausible distractors by hand. That manual work is slow, and weak distractors give the answer away. PDFQuiz reads the material you upload, pulls out the facts and ideas worth testing, and drafts each question with answer options and the right one marked. You stay in control: reword a stem, swap a distractor, drop anything off target, and decide how many questions you want before you export the set with its answer key.

MCQs from your own source

Upload a PDF chapter, a Word study guide, a slide deck or a photo of notes. The MCQ generator pulls questions from that exact content, so the test matches what you assigned. If your source is a single PDF, the PDF to MCQ converter is the most direct route.

Plausible answer options

Each MCQ comes with three or four answer choices, including distractors that are wrong but believable. Good distractors are what make a multiple choice question actually measure understanding, and the same rules apply whether you are writing good multiple choice questions by hand or editing a draft.

Answer key built in

Every set comes back with the correct answer marked for each question, so grading is quick whether people answer on paper or on screen. No second pass to record the answers yourself.

Edit every question

Reword a stem, change an option, reorder the choices or delete a question that misses the point. The AI hands you a draft, and you shape it into the exam you want.

Set count and difficulty

Choose how many MCQs you need and how hard they should be, from plain recall to questions that ask people to apply the idea. The same source can yield a 10-question quiz or a 100-item bank.

Export or share

Download a clean PDF, export an editable Word file with the answer key, or share the questions online for people to take on screen. The set is yours, with no watermark.

How it works

Generate MCQs in three steps

Upload your material

Drop in a PDF, Word file, PowerPoint deck, image or pasted text. The MCQ generator reads the full document, including scanned pages.

Pick count and difficulty

Choose how many multiple choice questions you want and the difficulty. The AI writes each stem, the options and the correct answer in seconds.

Edit, then export or share

Tweak any question, then download the MCQs as PDF or Word with the answer key, or share them online for people to take on screen.

Who uses it

An MCQ generator for every kind of test writer

Teachers and professors

Turn a chapter, lecture deck or lesson plan into a multiple choice quiz, unit test or final. Generate alternate versions from the same source to cut copying, and keep the answer key for fast grading.

Course authors and test banks

Build a large item bank from a textbook or course manual without writing every distractor by hand. Draft hundreds of MCQs, then curate the strongest into your question pool.

Corporate trainers and L&D

Create knowledge checks from training decks, SOPs and compliance PDFs. Confirm staff absorbed onboarding or safety material, then export the MCQs to drop into your LMS.

Tutors and exam prep

Turn review guides into practice MCQs students drill online. Make fresh question sets from the same source so they never run out of material before a certification or licensing exam. For a full graded paper rather than a drill set, the multiple choice test generator builds the test and its answer key together.

Why PDFQuiz

The MCQ generator that starts from your document

Most MCQ tools either hand you a blank form and leave the distractor-writing to you, or invent generic questions from a one-line topic prompt that miss what you actually covered. PDFQuiz starts from the file you upload and stays anchored to it. Every question traces back to a line in your source, the answer options are drawn from the same material, and you customize anything you do not like. You leave with an editable set of multiple choice questions plus an answer key that you own, with no lock-in and no watermark.

How to check an AI-generated MCQ before you use it

Cover the options and try to answer the question from the stem alone. If you cannot, the stem is underspecified. That one test takes about five seconds per item and catches most weak questions. After it, scan for the thirteen technical flaws catalogued in the NBME Item-Writing Guide, the free reference US medical schools use to build their exams.

The guide is worth knowing about because it sorts flaws by what they do to the score rather than by how they look. There are two families. The first adds irrelevant difficulty, making an item hard for reasons that have nothing to do with whether the student knows the material. The second cues the test-wise, letting a student who studied test-taking rather than content pick the answer anyway. Both distort the result, in opposite directions.

Flaws that add irrelevant difficulty

These make an item measure reading speed, patience or tolerance for ambiguity instead of knowledge. A student who understands the topic still gets the item wrong, which is the worst failure mode an assessment has.

Flaw	What it looks like in a draft	The fix
Long or complex options	Each option runs to a full clause or two, so the item measures reading load	Move the shared wording up into the stem and leave only the part that differs in the options
Inconsistent numeric data	Some options are ranges and some are exact figures, or they are not in numeric order	Use one format for every option and sort them low to high. Mixed formats let a student rule options out on structure alone
Vague terms	Options hang on words like often, usually or frequently	Replace with something you could defend to a student. Experts do not interpret these words the same way either
None of the above	Appears as the last option, usually where the generator ran short of distractors	Replace it with a specific option. It turns the item into a true or false judgment against every answer you did not list
Nonparallel options	Options mix categories, for example two diagnoses, a test and a treatment	Keep every option on one dimension, so all of them can be judged entirely true or entirely false
Complicated stems	The stem carries detail the question never uses	Cut anything the student does not need to answer. Length is fine when the length is load-bearing
Negatively phrased lead-ins	The lead-in turns on not or except	Rewrite it positively. Students miss the word and lose the item on attention rather than knowledge

Flaws that hand the answer to a test-wise student

These are the expensive ones, because the item still looks fine and quietly stops measuring anything. A student who has never opened the material can pick the answer from the shape of the options.

Flaw	How the giveaway works	The fix
Grammatical cues	Only one option agrees grammatically with the stem, for instance the stem ends in an and one option starts with a vowel	End the stem so every option fits, or repeat the article inside each option
Collectively exhaustive options	Two options between them cover every possibility, so the answer is almost certainly one of them	Rewrite so no pair of options spans the whole range
Absolute terms	A distractor says always or never, which experienced students know is rarely the answer	Soften the distractor to something that could plausibly be true
Correct option stands out	The right answer is the longest, the most qualified or the most carefully worded	Match the length and specificity of every option. This is the single most reliable giveaway in a generated draft
Word repetition	A distinctive word from the stem reappears in the correct answer and nowhere else	Change the wording in the stem or spread the term across several options
Convergence	Options combine two variables and the correct answer is the combination whose elements appear most often	Balance how often each element shows up across the option set

Two of these deserve extra attention on generated items specifically, and it follows from how the model works rather than from any defect in the material. A model drafting a correct answer has your source text in front of it, so the correct option tends to inherit the source vocabulary and the source precision, which produces word repetition and a correct option that stands out. The distractors are invented, so they come out shorter and vaguer. Reading only the option lengths, top to bottom, is a fast way to spot it.

What the numbers tell you after students sit the test

Two statistics tell you whether an item earned its place. The p-value is the percentage of students who answered correctly. NBME treats items above .95 or below .30 as carrying little information about the group: nearly everyone got it, or nearly nobody did, so the item did not separate anyone.

The second is the item-total correlation, which compares performance on that one item against performance on the whole test. Positive and large is what you want: students who knew the material got it right. Near zero means the item is measuring something unrelated. Negative is the alarm, because it means students who did worse overall were more likely to get that item right, which usually points to a keyed answer that is wrong or a flaw of the kind listed above. If your platform reports these numbers, sort by the correlation and read the bottom five items first.

Source: NBME Item-Writing Guide, Constructing Written Test Questions for the Health Sciences, National Board of Medical Examiners. The guide is written for the health sciences, and the flaw taxonomy applies to any subject.

What the MCQ generator does with each kind of PDF

It comes down to whether your PDF has a text layer. A file exported from Word, Google Docs or LaTeX is read directly and produces the cleanest questions. A scanned chapter or a phone photo of a page carries no text at all, so it has to go through OCR first, and OCR is a paid feature with an allowance of 150 pages every 30 days. Every other case below is a variation on those two.

This is worth knowing before you upload, because generators tend to fail quietly. A tool reads what it can, skips what it cannot, and returns a tidy set of questions covering two thirds of the chapter without mentioning which third went missing. You only notice when a student asks about something that was never on the test.

Source file	What the generator actually reads	What to do about it
PDF exported from Word, Docs or LaTeX	The full text layer, in reading order	Nothing. This is the case every other row is measured against
Scanned chapter or photo of a page	Nothing until OCR runs, then the recognized text	Needs a paid plan. OCR covers 150 pages per 30 days, which is a textbook chapter a week
Slide deck saved as PDF	The text printed on each slide, but not the speaker notes	Upload the original PowerPoint file instead when you still have it. The notes usually hold the explanation worth testing
Two-column journal article	Both columns, though the reading order can interleave them	Skim the first few questions for stems that change direction mid-sentence, which is the tell
Textbook page built around figures	Captions, axis labels and any text inside the image, but it does not interpret the figure	Paste a sentence of context when a diagram carries the point the question needs to test
Handwritten notes	Whatever OCR recognizes, and accuracy tracks how legible the writing is	Type out the definitions and formulas rather than trusting recognition on those specifically
Password-protected PDF	Nothing. The file cannot be opened for reading	Open it with the password and save an unlocked copy, then upload that

The limits, in actual numbers

Most tools in this category publish no ceiling at all, which makes them impossible to compare until you have already paid. Here is what PDFQuiz reads, measured rather than described.

Limit	Figure
Files per upload	Up to 10, merged into one question set
Maximum size per file	20 MB
Formats accepted	16: PDF, DOCX, DOC, PPTX, PPT, ODT, ODP, RTF, TXT, JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, BMP, TIFF, TIF
Preview on this page, no account	The first 5 pages, roughly 10,000 characters
Characters per 30 days, signed in	100,000 by default, 500,000 on Plus, 1,000,000 on Pro
OCR pages included	150 per 30 days, for scanned and photographed pages

Characters are the honest unit here, since a page of a slide deck and a page of a statute are not the same amount of reading. A dense page of textbook prose runs somewhere around 2,000 to 3,000 characters, so a million characters is on the order of 350 to 500 pages in a month. If you only ever convert one chapter at a time, the entry allowance is already more than a semester of quizzes.

Can I generate MCQs from a scanned PDF?

Yes, on a paid plan. A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, so the words have to be recognized before any question can be written from them. PDFQuiz runs OCR on those pages and then drafts the multiple choice questions normally, with 150 OCR pages included every 30 days. If a file has no text layer and OCR is not on your plan, the upload stops and says so instead of returning half a quiz.

How many MCQs can you generate from one PDF?

As many as the material genuinely supports, which for a ten page chapter is usually 15 to 25 questions worth keeping. Push past that and the generator starts testing detail nobody meant to assess, like the year in a footnote. Set the count deliberately rather than taking the highest number offered. Nothing caps questions per file; the real ceiling is your monthly character allowance.

Why did the generator only use part of my document?

Almost always one of three things. The preview on this page reads the first 5 pages only, so a longer upload looks truncated by design. Or a page range was left set from a previous run. Or the pages are scanned and OCR did not run, in which case the questions stop exactly where the text layer stopped. Check the page range first, because it is the quickest to rule out.

If your source is always a PDF rather than a mix of file types, the PDF to MCQ converter covers the same workflow with the upload step written specifically around PDF quirks.

Frequently asked questions

What is an MCQ generator?: An MCQ generator is a tool that creates multiple choice questions for you, complete with a stem, several answer options and the correct one marked. Instead of writing each question and its distractors by hand, you give the tool your source material and it drafts the questions. PDFQuiz reads a PDF, Word file, slide deck or pasted text you upload and produces ready-to-edit MCQs with an answer key.
How do I generate MCQ questions from a PDF?: Upload the PDF, choose how many questions you want, and let the AI write them. PDFQuiz reads the full document, including scanned pages handled with OCR, finds the testable facts and ideas, and drafts each multiple choice question with answer options and the correct answer. You then edit the draft and export it to PDF or Word. The whole process takes about a minute.
Can AI generate MCQs?: Yes. AI is well suited to drafting multiple choice questions because it can read your material, identify key points and write plausible distractors quickly. PDFQuiz uses AI to turn your document into a full set of MCQs with options and an answer key in seconds. You review and customize the draft, which keeps the speed of AI while making sure each question says exactly what you mean.
What makes a good multiple choice question?: A good multiple choice question has a clear stem, one unambiguous correct answer and distractors that are wrong but believable. The distractors are the hard part, because options that are obviously off let students guess. PDFQuiz drafts distractors from the same source material so they stay on topic, and you can edit any option to fine-tune how challenging each question is.
Can I create MCQs from text instead of a file?: Yes. You do not need a file to use the MCQ generator. Paste your text straight into the tool and it generates multiple choice questions from that content the same way it does from an upload. This is handy when you only have a passage, an article or a set of notes rather than a finished PDF or Word document.
How many MCQs should a test have?: Ten to fifteen for a chapter quiz, twenty five to forty for a unit test, and fifty or more for a midterm or final. The practical constraint is time: allow roughly one minute per straightforward recall item and closer to two for anything requiring a calculation or a scenario. Below ten items each question swings the score too far, so a single misread costs a competent student a letter grade.
How many answer options should an MCQ have?: Four is the convention, but three is often better. Research on option counts has repeatedly found that most four and five option items effectively function as three option items anyway, because one distractor is implausible enough that almost nobody picks it. A fourth option you had to invent to fill space adds guessing noise rather than difficulty. Write three strong distractors or write two.
Do you need an answer key with generated MCQs?: Yes, and it should come out of the same pass that wrote the questions. A key maintained separately drifts the moment you delete an item and forget to renumber, which is the most common grading error on paper tests. PDFQuiz marks the correct option as it drafts, and exports the student copy and the answer key as two separate files.
How do you check if an AI-generated multiple choice question is any good?: Cover the options and try to answer the question from the stem alone. If you cannot, the stem is underspecified and needs more detail. That single test, called the cover-the-options rule in the NBME Item-Writing Guide, catches most weak generated items in a few seconds. Then check that every option is homogeneous, judged true or false on one dimension, and that the correct answer is not the longest or most detailed choice.
What are the most common flaws in multiple choice questions?: The NBME Item-Writing Guide sorts them into two families. Flaws that add irrelevant difficulty include long or complex options, inconsistent numeric formats, vague frequency terms, None of the above, nonparallel options, complicated stems and negatively phrased lead-ins. Flaws that cue a test-wise student include grammatical cues, collectively exhaustive options, absolute terms such as always or never, a correct option that stands out, word repetition between stem and answer, and convergence.
How do I make an MCQ test online?: Upload the source material to an MCQ maker, set the number of questions and the difficulty, then edit and export. PDFQuiz reads a PDF, Word file, slide deck, image or pasted text, writes each stem with its options and marks the correct answer, and exports the test and its answer key as two separate PDF or Word files so you can hand out the student copy on its own.
What is the best MCQ generator?: The best MCQ generator turns your own material into fair questions fastest while leaving you in control of the wording and the answer key. PDFQuiz reads your document and drafts multiple choice questions with plausible distractors in seconds, lets you edit every stem and option, and exports to PDF or Word with the answers marked. Because it works from your file, the questions match what you actually taught.
Can I generate MCQs from a scanned PDF?: Yes, on a paid plan. A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, so the words have to be recognized before any question can be written from them. PDFQuiz runs OCR on those pages and then drafts the multiple choice questions normally, with 150 OCR pages included every 30 days. If a file has no text layer and OCR is not on your plan, the upload stops and says so instead of returning half a quiz.
How many MCQs can you generate from one PDF?: As many as the material genuinely supports, which for a ten page chapter is usually 15 to 25 questions worth keeping. Push past that and the generator starts testing detail nobody meant to assess, like the year in a footnote. Set the count deliberately rather than taking the highest number offered. Nothing caps questions per file; the real ceiling is your monthly character allowance.
Why did the generator only use part of my document?: Almost always one of three things. The preview on this page reads the first 5 pages only, so a longer upload looks truncated by design. Or a page range was left set from a previous run. Or the pages are scanned and OCR did not run, in which case the questions stop exactly where the text layer stopped. Check the page range first, because it is the quickest to rule out.
Where do I get the answer key for the MCQs?: It comes with the set. PDFQuiz marks the correct option while it drafts each question, and the answer key generator exports the student copy and the key as two separate files so you can hand out the paper without the answers on it.

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