Guide Quizzes

Quizzes and Exams

Scholarly generates quizzes and exams from your flashcard decks. Quizzes let you test yourself with different question types, while exams add time limits and scoring for a more realistic test experience.

Creating a Quiz

Open any flashcard deck and switch to the Quiz tab. A quiz is generated from the cards in that deck using AI.

Question Types

Four question types are available. Filter which types appear in your quiz from the quiz settings:

  • True/False -- Read a statement and decide if it is correct.
  • Multiple Choice -- Select the right answer from several options.
  • Fill in the Blank -- Type the missing word or phrase.
  • Short Response -- Write a free-form answer. The AI grades your response and gives feedback on what you got right and what was missing.

Your question type preferences are saved per deck and restored the next time you return.

Taking a Quiz

Quizzes present one question at a time. After answering, you see whether you were correct along with an explanation.

  • Navigate between questions with the previous/next buttons.
  • A question counter at the top shows your progress through the quiz.
  • Skip questions and come back to them later.

AI Feedback

For short response questions, the AI reads your answer and compares it to the correct answer. It explains what you got right, what was incomplete, and what was incorrect. This feedback helps you understand the material rather than just memorizing answers.

For multiple choice and true/false questions, the AI provides a brief explanation of why the correct answer is right.

Review Your Answers

When you finish a quiz session — or hit your daily quiz limit — Scholarly shows a Review your answers screen. Every question you tackled is listed in one place, marked correct or incorrect, with your answer and the right answer side by side. Expand any item to see the AI's explanation again, jump straight to the underlying flashcard, or move on.

The review screen is the same on free and paid plans. On free, it also appears when you hit the daily 5-question cap so you can still go back over what you got wrong before tomorrow's reset — no upgrade required.

Exams

Exams are timed quizzes with a fixed number of questions. Three presets let you start instantly:

  • Quick Quiz -- 15 questions, mixed types. Good for a fast review session.
  • Full Exam -- 50 questions with a 45-minute time limit. Simulates a real test environment.
  • Weak Spots -- 20 questions weighted toward cards you struggle with, using your study progress data.

Click any preset to create the exam and start immediately.

Practice Exam from Home

You can also start an exam without opening a deck first. Click the Practice Exam action on the home page, pick one of your recent flashcard decks from the picker, and the exam starts immediately. If you don't have any flashcards yet, the action prompts you to create your first deck.

Custom Exams

Choose Customize your own to set up an exam manually:

  • Question count -- How many questions to include.
  • Time limit -- Set a countdown timer, or leave it unlimited.
  • Difficulty filter -- Focus on easy, medium, or hard cards.
  • Question types -- Choose which question formats to include.

Taking an Exam

Exam questions appear one at a time with a running timer at the top. You can skip questions, jump back to ones you left, and submit early if you finish before time runs out. If you close the tab or your connection drops, the exam pauses — reopen the deck to resume right where you left off.

Scoring and History

After completing an exam, you see your final score with a breakdown by question type, plus an answer-by-answer review showing the correct answer, your answer, and an AI explanation. Use Retake to run the same exam again — the questions reshuffle, so you're testing recall rather than the order you saw them in.

Every exam attempt is recorded, so you can track your progress over time and see whether your scores are improving. Open your full exam history from the exam view on any flashcard deck; attempts without a custom title are labeled with the date they were taken, so you can always find a specific run.

On the free plan, exam attempts are limited per day — but backing out of an exam before answering any questions doesn't count against that limit, so you can preview one and leave if it isn't what you wanted. Ultimate removes the cap. See Plans and Limits.

Hearing Feedback

In quiz mode, you can have the AI read feedback aloud. After answering a question, click the speaker icon to hear the explanation spoken by the AI voice.

Tips

  • Use Weak Spots exams before a real test to focus on the material you are least confident about.
  • Take the same exam multiple times to track improvement.
  • Short response questions are the most effective for deep learning -- they force you to recall and articulate the answer rather than just recognizing it.
  • Combine quizzes with spaced repetition study sessions for the best retention.
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