NotebookLM Quizzes: Create Questions and Review Your Mistakes
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) can generate practice quiz questions from your uploaded sources. Here is how to ask for useful questions, check your answers, and turn the questions you got wrong into a focused study plan.
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Gemini Notebook, the current name for NotebookLM since July 2026, generates practice quiz questions from the documents you upload. The questions are grounded in your sources, which means you can verify each answer against the source text. fenbs can keep the questions you got wrong and the lessons they produced, so your next study session picks up from your real gaps rather than covering material you already know.
For best practices on AI-assisted study more broadly, see /blog/notebooklm-alternatives. For quiz-style review in Claude, /blog/claude-projects-vs-notebooklm covers the comparison.
What NotebookLM quizzes are and how they work
When you ask Gemini Notebook to quiz you, it generates question-and-answer pairs from the sources in the current notebook. The answers are drawn from those sources, so each question has a traceable answer in the material you added. This is different from general AI quiz generators that draw on training data: the questions are specific to your documents.
The quiz appears in the chat panel as a list of questions or as an interactive Q&A exchange, depending on how you ask. You can ask it to quiz you one question at a time, show only the question and wait for your answer before revealing the answer and source citation, or give you a set of questions to work through.
How to ask for good practice questions
The default request ("quiz me on this material") often produces surface-level recall questions. More specific prompts produce more useful questions.
- "Give me five questions that require applying the concept, not just recalling its name."
- "Ask me questions about the differences between X and Y as described in the sources."
- "Create questions that test whether I understand the exceptions and edge cases, not just the main rule."
- "Focus the questions on the second and third sources only."
- "Make the questions progressively harder, starting with recall and ending with application."
How to check your answers against the source
After each answer, ask Gemini Notebook to quote the passage that supports the correct answer. Read that passage yourself and check that the question and answer accurately represent what the source says. A quiz question that oversimplifies or misrepresents the source material will teach you the wrong thing even if you answer it correctly.
Pay attention to questions about numerical values, timelines, causation and conditions. These are the areas where a generated question is most likely to drop an important qualifier or reverse a relationship. If the source says "A increases when B decreases, except in condition C," a poorly formed question may omit condition C.
What to do with the questions you got wrong
A wrong answer tells you something specific about your understanding. Do not just note the correct answer—understand why you got it wrong. Was the concept unclear? Was the source text confusing? Did you misread the question? Each of these points to a different next step: re-reading the source, asking the notebook for a clearer explanation, or rephrasing the question.
Keep a running list of the questions you missed and the corrections. This list is more useful as a study tool than the full question set, because it shows exactly where your understanding breaks down. After a few rounds of review, the list should shrink as gaps close.
Record gaps so the next session focuses on what matters
When you get a question wrong, add it as a lesson in fenbs: the question, your answer, the correct answer from the source, and what you need to understand better. A connected AI reads those lessons before the next session and can build questions targeting your specific gaps.
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Building a review cycle around Gemini Notebook
A single quiz session is not enough for durable learning. Plan at least three rounds: an initial quiz to find the gaps, a focused review of the weak areas, and a second quiz to confirm the gaps have closed. Between rounds, add any additional sources that would help fill the gaps you found.
For exam preparation, work backward from the exam date. Identify the key topics, create a notebook for each and run quiz sessions over several days. Resist the urge to quiz yourself only on the topics you already understand; the notebook's ability to focus questions on a specific section makes it easy to concentrate on difficult areas.
Keep each notebook focused on a single topic or a coherent set of related sources. A notebook that mixes unrelated subjects will produce questions that blend ideas in misleading ways. For broad material, separate notebooks per topic and quiz yourself on each one independently before attempting questions that span the whole subject.
How to do this with fenbs
fenbs does not generate quizzes. It keeps the study record that makes each quiz session more effective than the last.
- Create a free account and add a project for the course or topic you are studying.
- After each quiz session, add the questions you got wrong as tasks, with the correct answer and source passage in the task note.
- Record the underlying reason for each error as a lesson: what you misunderstood and what the source actually says.
- Before the next session, read the open tasks and lessons so you know where to focus the next quiz.
- Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI from Integrations to read your study context and generate targeted follow-up questions on your remaining gaps.