How to Make MCQs from Chapter Notes — Free Tool for Teachers in India

By the Qallery team · 6 May 2026 · 6 min read

Every teacher knows the loop. You finish covering a chapter, and now you need a worksheet, a unit test, or a quick quiz to check what stuck. So you sit down, scroll through your notes, type out questions, write four options, mark the correct one, then write a short explanation for each. Twenty minutes per question. Two hours for a decent set. By the time it is ready, half the week is gone.

This guide walks you through a faster path. Upload your chapter notes — your handwritten scan, the textbook PDF, the slides you taught from — and Qallery generates a full MCQ bank with options, correct answers, and step-by-step solutions in under a minute. It works with NCERT, ICSE, state boards, university material, and notes in Bengali, Hindi, or other regional languages. New accounts get up to 100 free pages, no credit card required.

What Qallery actually does

You give it a chapter — usually a 4 to 30 page PDF, sometimes longer — and it does three things in sequence:

1. Reads the content. Every page is OCR'd, including pages with diagrams, equations, tables, and labelled figures. Bengali, Hindi, and Tamil scripts are supported as first-class inputs.
2. Identifies the testable ideas. Definitions, mechanisms, cause-effect chains, structural details in figures. Decorative pages and chapter banners are skipped.
3. Writes the MCQs. One per major concept, with four plausible options, one clearly correct answer, and a one-to-three sentence solution explaining why it is right and why the distractors are wrong.

For a 12 page chapter you typically get around 15 to 20 MCQs. For a 30 page chapter, around 40. The questions cover the chapter evenly — not just the first and last pages — because Qallery reads the chapter in overlapping windows so the middle does not get lost.

A real example

Here is a question Qallery generated from a Class 10 NCERT Science chapter on the human eye, run through in November 2026:

That MCQ took zero teacher time. Multiply across 20 questions and a unit test that used to take half a Saturday is ready before the kettle finishes boiling.

Step by step: your first chapter

Step 1 — Open Qallery and sign in

Go to qallery.app and tap "Try now". Sign up with Google or your phone number. New accounts come with enough credits for up to 100 pages of free question generation.

Step 2 — Upload your chapter notes

Tap the upload button. You will see two options. Pick "Chapter notes" — that is the notes-to-MCQ pipeline. The other option, "Question paper", is for digitizing an existing test paper.

Now choose your file. You can:

• Upload a PDF of the textbook chapter.
• Snap photos of your handwritten notes — Qallery stitches them into a single document automatically.
• Upload a scanned PDF of class handouts or coaching material.

Step 3 — Wait about a minute

Qallery shows a progress bar as it reads the pages, identifies the concepts, and writes the questions. A 4 to 5 page chapter takes around 30 seconds. A 30 page chapter takes a couple of minutes. You can leave the tab and come back — the job runs server-side and you will see the result when you return.

Step 4 — Review and use the questions

The new questions land in your library tagged with the source chapter name. Tap any question to edit the stem, options, or solution. Group questions into a test, share a join code with your class, or run them as a live quiz where students play in real time on their phones with a leaderboard.

What works well, and what does not

Works well

• Definition-heavy chapters — Biology, History, Geography, Civics. The model finds the term-and-definition pairs and tests them naturally.
• Mechanism explanations — Physics chapters on optics, current electricity, motion. Cause-effect MCQs come out crisp.
• Labelled diagrams — anatomy, plant cell, electric circuits. Qallery reads the labels and tests recognition where the figure carries useful information.
• Regional language notes — Bengali, Hindi, Tamil. The MCQs come back in the same script as the source.

Works less well — and what to do

• Math chapters with worked examples — the model handles concept questions well, but generated numerical questions are not always perfectly solvable. For pure math, the question-paper digitization mode (snap a photo of a real worksheet) is more reliable.
• Pages that are mostly diagrams with no text — Qallery reads figures, but if a page is one large flowchart with no surrounding explanation, the MCQ count for that page will be low. Combine such pages with the surrounding text.
• Very low-resolution scans — if you cannot read your own scan, Qallery probably cannot either. Re-scan dim handwritten notes at 300 DPI or higher.

What classes and exams does this cover

Qallery is content-agnostic. It generates MCQs from whatever you upload, not from a fixed syllabus. In practice, teachers and students use it for:

• School boards. CBSE classes 6 to 12 (NCERT chapters), ICSE, state boards (West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and others). Either the textbook chapter PDF or your own class notes.
• Competitive exam prep. JEE Main physics and chemistry chapters, NEET biology, GATE topics. Especially useful for revision passes once you have your own notes.
• Coaching institute material. Course modules, weekly handouts, mock-test answer-key chapters.
• College and university. Engineering subjects, medical micro chapters, commerce and law modules. The MCQs are quick recall checks, not full synoptic problems.

How is it free?

Every new account gets 100 credits, and notes-mode generation costs 1 credit per page. So your first 100 pages of MCQ generation are on us. After that, credit packs start at ₹49. You only pay for the page-count of your uploads — building tests, running live quizzes, sharing with students, and storing your library are always free.

Common questions

Are the generated MCQs accurate?

For factual recall and concept-application questions, yes — the model is grounded in the content you upload, so it does not hallucinate facts that are not in your notes. You should still skim the bank before handing it to students; we expect ~95% to ship as-is, and the rest can be fixed in two clicks. Every question has a "Replace with photo" option for the rare case where you want to swap one out.

Can students use it for self-study?

Yes. Many of our users are students uploading their own notes and using the generated MCQs as a revision check before exams. The same 100-page free tier applies.

Do I need to install an app?

No. Qallery runs in any browser on any phone or laptop. There is also an Android app on the Play Store if you prefer a native shortcut, but everything works in the browser too.

What about Bengali, Hindi, and other Indian languages?

Fully supported. Upload notes in any Indian language and the MCQs come back in the same language. Mixed-script content (Hindi text with English physics terms, for example) is also handled — that is how most actual classroom notes look.