Questions out of the same chapter
Multiple choice, true or false, open answers and matching, without typing a card.
Making flashcardsPractice tests
Make a practice test from your own material, against the clock
The best preparation for a test is a test. Upload your chapter, choose the topics and the difficulty, and sit the whole thing before your teacher sets one.
In short
StudyWorld builds a full practice test out of your own material. You pick the topics, set the difficulty and put a time limit on it. Afterwards you see per concept what went well and what did not, and that is what your next practice session is about.
What a practice test looks like
Example: history, chapter 4Your test
Topics: 4 chosen. Difficulty: medium. Time: 30 minutes.
Afterwards
15 out of 20 right. Strong: the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. Weak: the Batavian Republic and the dates around 1795.
What happens next
The two weak topics come back more often in your next session, phrased differently. The strong ones move to the back.
What you set before you start
- Topics
- Difficulty
- Time limit
- Your own material
Why testing yourself beats rereading
Sitting a test feels heavier than rereading a chapter, and that is exactly why it works. You have to retrieve the answer instead of recognising it, and retrieving is what memory holds on to.
There is a second reason: a practice test shows you what you do not know. Rereading does the opposite, because a familiar text feels like knowledge. You find out the difference in the exam room.
And the nerves wear off. Somebody who has already worked against the clock three times does not jump when the real clock starts.
From chapter to test
Three steps and the clock is running
No question bank to buy, no old papers to hunt down. Your own chapter is the material.
- 01
Upload your material
Photograph the pages with your phone, or upload the pdf, Word file or PowerPoint your teacher handed out.
- Photo
- Word
- PowerPoint
- 02
Put your test together
Choose the topics, set the difficulty and add a time limit. The closer the real thing gets, the harsher you should make it.
- Choose topics
- Set difficulty
- Time limit
- 03
Sit it and see what comes out
Afterwards you get a score per concept, not one number. Whatever you missed comes back in your next practice session, phrased differently.
- Score per concept
- Weak against strong
- Back in your practice
Reread it, or sit it with the clock running
Rereading and highlighting
- Going through the chapter for the third time
- What you already know feels good and eats the most time
- You find the gaps during the real test
- No idea how long a question costs you
- Highlighting, which feels like studying
StudyWorldAdaptive
- A full test out of your own chapter
- You see per concept what is still weak
- The clock runs, the way it will in the room
- Your weak topics come back more often
- You know where you stand before the test, not after
Better a disappointment now than in the exam room.
Getting more out of it
Five things that make a practice test worth sitting
None of this needs StudyWorld. All of it works better with a real test.
Sit it a week too early
A bad score is still useful a week out. The night before, it is only frightening.
Put the clock on
Time pressure is part of the test. Practising without a clock practises half of it.
Do not check as you go
Answer everything first, then mark it. Otherwise you are practising looking things up instead of knowing them.
Sit it again, differently
Same topics, new questions. If you learned the phrasing rather than the answer, that is where it shows.
Then work only on the weak spots
The topics that went well do not need another hour. That hour belongs to the two that did not.
More than one test
One upload brings the rest of it along.
A summary in plain language
The same chapter written the way you wish the book had written it.
Making a summaryYour teacher's exam list, checked
Upload what the exam covers and see what is ready, what can be built and what is missing.
All featuresFree to start
Everything free for the first 7 days, without payment details. What you make stays yours.
See pricingFrequently asked questions
- Can I make a practice test from a photo of my book?
- Yes. A readable photo of the page is enough, and you can upload several at once. A pdf, Word file or PowerPoint works the same way.
- Can I choose which topics are in it?
- Yes. You pick the topics, set the difficulty and add a time limit, so the test can be as gentle or as harsh as you need it.
- Are the questions really from my own material?
- Yes. They are written from the pages you uploaded, not from general knowledge, so nothing turns up that your teacher never covered.
- Can I sit the same test again?
- Yes. The same topics give you new questions, so you end up learning the answer rather than the phrasing.
- Does this help for an exam as well?
- Yes. Upload the list of what your teacher will examine and StudyWorld lays it beside your material: what is ready to practise, what can still be built and what is missing.
- Is it free?
- You can start for free: for the first 7 days you get everything in StudyWorld Unlimited, without payment details. After that, everything you made stays and you can keep practising. Making something new needs Unlimited. The pricing page has the prices.
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