No, a PDF is not strictly required. While the PDF-based MCQ generator is one of the core features, you can also generate MCQs by copying and pasting plain text into the tool. This is useful when you only have an extract, notes, or a specific passage you want to turn into questions.
Creating MCQs by hand is often time-consuming, repetitive, and mentally draining, especially when it comes to inventing credible distractors. An AI MCQ generator handles the repetitive groundwork, allowing you to focus on validating questions, adjusting difficulty, and aligning them with your pedagogical goals.
Yes, Nation AI can be used as a course-based MCQ generator. You can break a full course into chapters or sections, generate MCQs for each part, and build question banks that support exams, continuous assessment, or self-evaluation.
AI is particularly good at identifying key concepts, generating plausible incorrect answers, and proposing multiple variations of questions based on the same idea. This makes it efficient for covering large volumes of content quickly.
Clear, well-structured source documents tend to produce better questions. Starting with smaller sections, reviewing and filtering generated MCQs, and adapting them to your intended level will help you get the most value from the tool.
Because it saves you from spending hours inventing questions and distractors, while still leaving you in control of quality and pedagogy. Nation AI helps you create MCQs faster, assess more frequently, and make learning more interactive, all without cost or registration.
Nation AI turns the tedious part of MCQ creation into a fast, manageable step, allowing you to focus on teaching, learning, and meaningful assessment rather than mechanical question writing.