It is Tuesday evening, the exam is in eleven days, and you have read the same six pages of the lecture script three times. Every line looks familiar by now. Then someone from your seminar asks you one question about it, and you cannot get past the first sentence.
Studyflash is an AI quiz generator that asks you those questions first. You upload the material you actually have to know, the slides, the script, your own notes, and the questions come from that file rather than from a bank written for the subject in general. Then you find out what you got wrong.
What you can quiz yourself on
Lecture slides and scripts
A PDF of the slides, a document, a chapter pasted in as text: upload it and the questions come from there. The same upload also gives you flashcards, so one file covers the drilling over the term and the testing before the exam.
A photo of your handwritten notes
If the seminar only exists in your notebook, photograph the pages. The handwriting is read as text, and the questions come from what you wrote down, the worked example on the board included.
A lecture you recorded
Record the class in the browser or in the app, and the transcript becomes a summary, flashcards and a quiz. That covers the modules where nothing is written down and everything is said once.
Why answering questions beats reading it again
Rereading is comfortable because the page is in front of you and you recognise every word. Recognising is not retrieving, and an exam asks you to retrieve. A question you cannot answer tonight is a gap you still have eleven days to close; a page that felt familiar tells you nothing either way.
What comes back after every question
Four question types: single choice, multiple choice, true or false, and fill in the blank, where the answer is judged on meaning, so a synonym counts. You choose how many questions and which types. Each result shows your answer, the correct one and an explanation drawn from your own material, and the set sorts by what you got wrong.
A mock exam shaped like the real paper
A mock exam is built at course level, across every deck and file in the course, timed and graded. Upload a past paper or a few example questions and Studyflash matches its structure and its question style. The eight question types include essay and computational answers, graded against your material.
In the browser and on your phone
Quizzes run in the browser and in the iPhone and Android apps. A quiz that already exists works on the phone without a connection and syncs your progress once you are back online; generating a new one needs the connection. When an explanation does not land, Max, the tutor, is there inside the quiz session.
Who gets the most out of this
Subjects examined by multiple choice: anatomy in Leuven, pharmacology in Bologna, a statistics methods paper in Amsterdam. The only preparation that resembles the exam is answering hundreds of questions.
The week a module ends. You quiz yourself on the block just finished, while there is still term left to repair what it finds.
The fortnight before finals, once the student association has posted last year's paper. Upload it, sit the mock exam it produces, and see which topics fall apart under a clock.
What this does not do
Mock exams are part of Premium. Quizzes, flashcards and spaced repetition are on the free plan.
A quiz tests what is in the material you gave it and nothing beyond it. If your lecturer said the thing that matters out loud and it never reached your notes, nothing will ask about it.
The AI quiz generator is free to start
You can be quizzed on your own material without paying: the free plan covers quizzes, flashcards and spaced repetition, with a monthly allowance of AI generations and no card details needed. What each plan includes is on the pricing page.
Questions and answers
Quizzes sit on the free plan, so you can upload a PDF and be asked questions on it within the monthly allowance of AI generations. The timed course-level version, the mock exam, is Premium.
In a mock exam, yes: short answer, essay and computational answers are graded by AI against your own material. A quiz keeps to the four shorter types.
Fill in the blank is judged on meaning rather than on wording, so a synonym or a paraphrase counts. The question still comes from your material, not from a marking scheme.
A quiz duel is a real-time round on a topic or a deck, played against other people with a live leaderboard. It runs on the same material as your own quizzes.
Flashcards are for the term: short reviews scheduled by how well you remember each card. A quiz checks whether a topic holds up, in the format the exam uses. Most people run both.