Quiz from your notes Turn your notes into a quiz.
Normi generates a quiz from material you already have — a lecture PDF, a note you wrote, a photo of your handwriting — in three formats: flashcards, multiple choice, or a written practice paper that gets graded.
Every question is grounded in a real source in your account, and questions that cannot be traced to one are dropped rather than shown. Creating quizzes is free. The point is not the quiz itself but the retesting: reading a summary feels like learning and mostly is not, whereas being asked and failing is where the work happens.
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How it works
You supply the material. Normi supplies the questions, and the receipts.
Point it at a source
A lecture PDF, a note, a photo of handwritten pages, or a whole project. Anything already in your account is fair game.
Pick a format
Flashcards, multiple choice, or a written practice paper. The format should match the exam you are actually sitting.
Take it, then retake the misses
Ask to be retested on only what you got wrong, or for a harder version. Each one is a new quiz linked to the original.
The three formats, and when each one is right
| Format | How it plays | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Flashcards | Flip the card, self-mark got-it or missed-it | Vocabulary, definitions, dates — anything where the answer is short and you know instantly whether you had it |
| Multiple choice | Tap an option, instant right or wrong | Fast sweeps over a lot of material, and exams that are themselves multiple choice |
| Practice paper | Write long-form answers, AI grades after you submit | Essay and short-answer exams, where the skill being tested is constructing the answer, not recognising it |
The honest caveat on multiple choice: recognising the right option is easier than producing it, so a strong multiple-choice score can overstate what you would manage in a closed-book written exam. If the real paper is written, practise on the written format even though it is slower and less pleasant.
Where generated quizzes usually fail
The generation step is where these tools quietly break. A model asked to invent questions about a document will happily invent questions about a document it half-read. Normi drops questions it cannot trace back to a real source in your account before the quiz is saved, which means fewer questions sometimes, and fewer questions about things your notes never said.
Retesting is the part that works
Generating a quiz is the easy half. The half that decides your grade is whether you take it again on Thursday. Because Normi already holds your reminders and deadlines, a quiz can be scheduled to come back rather than sitting in a list you never reopen.
If you would rather run spaced repetition properly and are willing to write your own cards, use Anki. We say so in our own roundup, which names a competitor as the winner in three of five jobs.
Where the quizzes come from
Anything in your account, because Normi already reads your files: PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and photos of handwritten notes via OCR. Share the project with your group and everyone can quiz off the same material, which is usually a better use of a study session than everyone revising different things and finding out in the exam.
Questions, answered.
What can Normi build a quiz from?
Any material already in your account: an uploaded PDF or document, a note you wrote, a photo of handwritten notes, or a conversation you had with Normi. You pick the source, or let Normi use the project you are working in.
What quiz formats are there?
Three. Flashcards, which you flip and self-mark got-it or missed-it. Multiple choice, which is a tap-an-option deck with instant right or wrong. And a practice paper, which is written long-form and graded by AI after you submit.
Are the questions made up, or from my actual material?
From your material. Each question is grounded in a real source in your account, and questions that cannot be traced back to one are dropped before the quiz is saved rather than shown to you.
Can I retake a quiz on just the questions I got wrong?
Yes. Ask Normi to quiz you on what you missed, or to make it harder, and it generates a new quiz linked to the original so your history stays intact.
Do I need a paid plan to make quizzes?
No. Quiz creation is available on the free tier as well as on paid plans. Paid plans give you more AI usage overall, more storage, and a higher daily upload limit.
Does this replace Anki?
No, and we would not claim it does. Anki is the gold standard for long-horizon spaced repetition and it is free. Normi is better when you want the questions generated from your actual course files with sources attached, and the retests scheduled alongside your deadlines, without you writing the cards.
Related reading
Make a quiz from something you already have.
Upload one reading and ask Normi to test you on it. Quiz creation is free, so this costs you nothing but the upload.