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The question bank

Where every question comes from

From the printed textbook, and past a person, before it ever reaches a paper. This is the part of a question paper generator that actually matters, and it is the part almost nobody in this market will tell you about.

Provenance

From the printed book, not from a model’s imagination

The great majority of the bank is taken directly from the prescribed textbook for the class and subject. Not paraphrased from a summary of it, not recalled by a language model that read something similar once — taken from the book your students are holding.

A small minority is AI-assisted. We say so plainly rather than hiding it, because the alternative — claiming a bank is one hundred per cent human-written when it is not — is the sort of thing that falls apart the first time a teacher looks closely. Those questions pass exactly the same review as every other question. If one is not good enough, it does not go in.

The test worth applying to any tool, including this one: ask where the questions come from. If the answer is “our AI generates them”, you are the proofreader. That is a real job, it takes real time, and it is the job you were trying to avoid.

Two pools

Book back and book inside — and when to use each

 Book backBook inside
What it isThe printed exercises at the end of the lessonQuestions drawn from the content of the lesson itself
Students have seen itYes — they were told to practise itNo
What it testsWhether they revisedWhether they read the chapter
Good forSlip tests, weekly tests, revision before the public examUnit tests, term papers, separating the class

Most teachers use both, weighted. A quarterly paper built entirely from book back is a paper a well-drilled student can finish without having understood the lesson; one built entirely from book inside is a paper the class will call unfair. Examaker lets you set the mix per paper rather than forcing you into one pool.

Review

Every question is approved by a person first

A question exists in the bank in one of two states: draft or approved. The paper generator can only see approved ones. There is no path by which a question that has not been read by a person ends up on a teacher’s paper.

Approval is not a rubber stamp. It is where we catch the things that actually go wrong in an extracted question bank: a question filed under the wrong chapter, a match-the-following whose pairs were scrambled in extraction, a mark value that does not match the question’s depth, an option set with two correct answers, a stray citation or a page number that came along with the text.

When one still slips through

Report it from the paper. It goes into the review queue and is corrected in the bank itself, which means the fix reaches every teacher using that chapter — not only the person who reported it. A tool that generates a fresh wrong question every time cannot do that, because there is nothing to correct.

The honest comparison

Why not just ask ChatGPT?

It is a fair question and plenty of teachers have tried it. Three things go wrong, and none of them is fixed by a better prompt.

1. It has not read your textbook

It has read a textbook. Ask for five questions from Class 10 Science Unit 4 and you will get five plausible questions about that topic — some of which are not in your syllabus, some of which use terminology your book does not use, and one of which is quietly wrong. You will find that out while marking.

2. It does not know the shape of the paper

A board paper has named parts, a fixed marks split, internal choice in specific places, and a particular count of sub-questions in particular sections. A chat window gives you a list of questions. Turning that list into a paper — header, sections, marks, choice, register-number strip, print layout — is most of the work you were trying to skip.

3. It cannot remember what it already gave you

Ask for a second unit test on the same chapters and you will get substantially the same questions back. Examaker tracks what it has given you and rotates.

Where a chat assistant genuinely is the better tool: rewording a question you already have, drafting a comprehension passage, or translating something. Use it for that.

Answers

Questions about the questions

Not as a rule. The great majority of the bank is taken from the prescribed textbook — the printed book-back exercises and questions drawn from the content inside each lesson. A small minority is AI-assisted, and it passes exactly the same human review as every other question. No question reaches a teacher's paper until a person has approved it.

The question to ask any tool is where its questions come from, not how fast it generates them. A model asked to invent questions about a chapter it has not read will produce questions that look right and are wrong — wrong facts, wrong chapter, wrong mark value, or a question the syllabus does not cover. Examaker does not work that way: questions are taken from the prescribed textbook and approved by a person before use.

Book back questions are the printed exercises at the end of a lesson — the ones students have been told to practise. Book inside questions are drawn from the content of the lesson itself and are not printed as exercises. Book back tests whether a student revised; book inside tests whether they actually read the chapter. You can draw from either or both.

Report it from the paper and it goes into the review queue. Wrong questions are corrected at the source in the bank, so the fix reaches every teacher rather than only the one who reported it.

Tamil Nadu State Board is live today for Classes 9 to 12. CBSE launches in the next few weeks. Every other board's status is listed here — and a board is only marked live once its bank actually exists.