Quiz Mode: Practice Multiple Choice Questions with Spaced Repetition

Okay, we're really happy about this one.

We've been working on Quiz Mode for a while now, and today we're shipping it. Starting today, you can create multiple choice quizzes inside Ankra alongside the flashcards you already know and love.

What's New

When you create a deck now, you have three options: flashcards, quiz, or both. That's it. No complicated setup.

If you pick quiz, each card becomes a multiple choice question with four answer options. If you pick both, your deck has a mix of flashcards and quizzes. Completely up to you how you want to study.

Answer options are shuffled every time a quiz card appears, so you can't learn the position of the correct answer instead of the actual content. If you'd rather keep the answers in a fixed order, you can turn shuffling off in Settings.

AI Generates Multiple Choice Questions for You

The part we're most proud of: the AI can generate everything for you.

Take a photo of your notes, paste some text, or upload a PDF, and tell the AI whether you want flashcards, quizzes, or a mixed deck. It will generate the whole deck, including plausible wrong answer options and an explanation for every multiple choice question. As always, you can edit anything the AI generates if it gets something wrong or you want to tweak the wording.

You can also create quiz cards manually if you prefer to write your own questions and answer choices.

Built for SAT, GRE, MCAT, and Standardized Exam Prep

Multiple choice is the dominant format on standardized tests. The SAT, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, bar exam, and most professional certification exams all rely heavily on it. Flashcards are great for drilling facts, but when your actual test presents four options and asks you to choose the best one, you need practice in that format too.

Ankra now lets you study in the same format you'll be tested in. You can create a deck of GRE vocabulary in quiz mode, generate MCAT science questions from your notes, or build SAT math practice sets directly from your prep materials.

There's also something useful about being presented with four options and having to reason through which one is correct. It forces a different kind of thinking than recalling an answer from scratch. Both flashcard and quiz modes complement each other well, which is why we added the mixed deck option.

Why Explanations Matter

There's a catch with multiple choice that the research is pretty clear about. When you read a wrong answer, you can accidentally start remembering it as correct. This is sometimes called the lure effect, and it's a real problem if you're studying without feedback.

The fix is straightforward: explain why the wrong answers are wrong. When you see the result after answering, you don't just find out which option was correct. You can also read an explanation that walks through the reasoning.

Every quiz card in Ankra supports an explanation field. When the AI generates your quiz, it writes an explanation for each card alongside the answer choices. If you're creating cards manually, you can write your own. Either way, after you answer, you see not just what was right but why, and why the other options weren't.

This is the approach recommended by research on distributed practice and corrective feedback. Roediger and colleagues found that when students receive explanatory feedback after testing, the negative effects of exposure to wrong answers are substantially reduced. Testing becomes a learning event, not just a measurement.

Spaced Repetition Still Does Its Thing

Quiz cards go through the same spaced repetition scheduling as flashcards. The SM-2 algorithm tracks every answer and schedules cards based on how well you know them. Nail a question and it gets pushed further out. Miss it and it comes back sooner. The algorithm doesn't care whether the card is a flashcard or a quiz, it just schedules what you need to review.

Give It a Try

We'd love to hear what you think. If you have feedback, run into any bugs, or just want to tell us how it goes, reach out at [email protected].