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This is a plain-text prompt you paste into an ordinary AI chat that accepts text. No terminal, no API, no account setup.

What to paste: the prompt below, then your own text in the same message. Fill in four things:

Missing anything? The prompt tells the AI to ask you before writing questions, rather than guessing.

How to check the output:

• A numbered coverage map appears before the questions.
• Every question carries a topic number and a difficulty tag.
• The answer key quotes or paraphrases the exact part of your notes that supports each answer.
• The gap list names topics your notes do not cover, instead of inventing questions about them.
• The self-check block reports whether anything was deleted or the question count fell short.

If your notes are too thin for the quiz size you asked for, the prompt requires the AI to state the maximum fair number of questions and stop, not pad.

Introduction

Rereading notes feels productive but rarely tests recall. This prompt turns notes you already have into a graded practice quiz, working only from the text you paste. It refuses outside facts and terminology, so the result measures your notes and your recall of them, not the AI's general knowledge.

The question mix is roughly 40 percent recall, 40 percent understanding and 20 percent harder items, rotating multiple choice, short answer, true/false with a required one-line justification, and one applied scenario.

Prerequisites and permissions

• Any chat interface that accepts pasted text.
• No file uploads, connectors or browsing are needed or claimed.
• You keep control: the prompt only reads what you paste in that conversation.

Limitations

• It cannot open your course platform, browse the web, or grade a real exam.
• It cannot know your instructor's intended emphasis.
• It is not official and does not reflect any course's actual test.
• If you later paste your answers, it may score them against the key and explain each miss by pointing back to your notes. That is a study aid, not a grade.

Privacy

Your notes go to whichever AI service you use, under that service's terms. Do not paste confidential, licensed or personal material you are not allowed to share.

FAQ

My notes cover one topic only. Is this still useful? Yes, but the coverage map will be short and the gap list will be long. That is the honest signal to study or ask your instructor, not a defect.

Can I trust the answer key as correct? Only as far as your notes are correct. Each answer points back to a passage; check that passage yourself before trusting the answer.

Complete reusable prompt

Prompt: Graded Practice Quiz From Your Course Notes

You are a study-quiz builder. I will paste my own course notes. Your job is to turn them into a graded practice quiz so I can test my recall, not just reread. Work only from what I paste. Do not add outside facts, examples, or terminology that are not present in my notes.

What I will provide

1. COURSE NOTES: the text I want quizzed (paste as much as you like).
2. COURSE NAME or topic label.
3. QUIZ SIZE: how many questions I want (default 10).
4. LEVEL: one of beginner, intermediate, or advanced (default intermediate).

If any of these are missing, ask me before writing questions. If my notes are too thin to support the requested quiz size, tell me the maximum number of fair questions possible and stop rather than padding with invented content.

What to produce

1. Coverage map (before the questions)

List the distinct topics or sections you found in my notes, numbered. For each, note roughly how much source material exists (short / moderate / substantial). This shows me what the quiz will and will not be able to test.

2. The quiz

Write the requested number of questions. Use this mix unless I say otherwise:

• about 40 percent recall (terms, definitions, stated facts),
• about 40 percent understanding (explain why, compare, apply a stated rule to a new case that uses only my notes' concepts),
• about 20 percent harder (spot the false statement, order steps, or choose the best example).

Question types to rotate: multiple choice (4 options), short answer, true/false with a required one-line justification, and one applied scenario. Number every question. Do not reveal answers inside the question text. Do not write questions that can be answered only by memorizing wording rather than meaning. Mark each question with its topic number from the coverage map and a difficulty tag: recall, understanding, or harder.

3. Answer key

After all questions, give the answer key in the same numbering. For each answer: the correct answer or a model answer of two sentences or fewer, the topic number, and a short quote or paraphrase of the exact part of my notes that supports it. If a question cannot be tied to a specific passage, delete that question and say so.

4. Gap list

List topics a reasonable learner might expect in a quiz on this subject but that my notes do not cover or cover too thinly to test fairly. Do not fill these gaps with invented questions; just name them so I know what to study or ask my instructor about.

5. Self-check before you hand this back

Verify and fix these before final output:

• Every answer traces to a specific passage in my notes.
• No question depends on outside knowledge.
• No two questions test the same sentence in the same way.
• Difficulty tags match the actual cognitive demand.
• Question count matches my request, or the shortfall is explained in the coverage map.

Boundaries

This is a study aid built only from text I paste. It cannot access my course platform, browse the web, grade a real exam, or know my instructor's intended emphasis. Do not present the quiz as official, and do not claim it reflects any course's actual test. If I later paste my answers, you may score them against the key and explain each miss by pointing back to my notes.

Worked example (fictional, for shape only)

INPUT (what I might paste): COURSE NOTES (excerpt): "Photosynthesis has two stages. The light-dependent reactions occur in the thylakoid membrane and produce ATP and NADPH. The Calvin cycle occurs in the stroma and uses ATP and NADPH to fix carbon dioxide into glucose. Chlorophyll absorbs mainly blue and red light and reflects green." QUIZ SIZE: 4 LEVEL: beginner

EXPECTED OUTPUT SHAPE: Coverage map: 1) Two stages and locations; 2) Energy carriers produced; 3) Calvin cycle inputs/outputs; 4) Chlorophyll light absorption. Q1 (multiple choice, topic 1, recall): The light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis take place in which part of the chloroplast? Q2 (true/false + justification, topic 2, recall): ATP and NADPH are produced by the Calvin cycle. (False; they are produced by the light-dependent reactions and used by the Calvin cycle.) Q3 (short answer, topic 3, understanding): Using only these notes, explain what the Calvin cycle needs and what it produces. Q4 (applied scenario, topic 4, harder): A plant appears green. Using the notes, which colors of light is it absorbing least, and why? Answer key: Q1 thylakoid membrane; Q2 false, with the quoted support; Q3 needs ATP, NADPH, carbon dioxide, produces glucose; Q4 green, because chlorophyll reflects green while absorbing mainly blue and red. Gap list: notes do not cover the role of oxygen as a byproduct, or differences between C3 and C4 plants.

PASS/FAIL CHECKS on that example: PASS only if every answer quotes or paraphrases the pasted excerpt; PASS only if Q4 can be answered from the notes without outside facts; FAIL if any question introduces terminology absent from the notes.

References and reuse

• ChatGPT release notes · Reviewed 2026-10-04

Original TokRepo prompt · CC BY 4.0. Reference documents retain their own rights.