Exam questions exposed?

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October

2023

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Want to practice for your exams?

I was thinking of how was going to prepare for my DBA and IS exams, summarising the content of the course and trying to answer the learning goals is what I came up with. Pretty standard right?

It all changed when I came across this AI tool! It’s called MagicForm, what does it do?

Well, let me show you. Take for example the lecture notes from DBA, a long piece of text containing all the information you might need to answer the MC questions. Copy page 8 and a bit more on page 9, max 6000 words in the free version of the tool (only text as well), and paste it inside the MagicForm. Specify the question type, number of questions and language. Go grab your cup of coffee while the form does it’s magic.

The result?

A test for you: https://forms.gle/ryp51B49hiSDaZXo9

See in the image below, an example of a question that was generated.

I’m actually thinking that if I give the MagicForm text that contains the answers to the practice exam, it might generate similar questions to the practice exam, and thus vice versa for the exam right?. That would be an extremely interesting situation. Thus I went out to test my hypothesis. Which turned out to be harder than expected. I might have to feed the form my summary/notes for better questions.

I couldn’t prove it confirm my hypothesis due to two things: lack of clear textual description and the fact that questions on an exam require you to apply knowledge. Whereas the MagicForm only creates questions aimed at repetition.

My conclusion is that the MagicForm can create questions for yourself to see if you remember the knowledge that you have to apply and it could serve a role at the end of a lecture to provide some interactivity and test if the audience has been paying attention but to really practice for the exam you’ll have to come up with the questions yourself.

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What can Quazilla do for me?

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October

2023

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Do you ever feel uninspired or overwhelmed by a task that you have to perform?

Well I did, having to write this blog post turned out to be on my mind a lot. I kept searching for original and useful AI tools that were freely available and could be the subject of an interesting blog post. <insert> Quazilla: https://www.joinsquad.co/quazilla <insert>

I was curious and decided to say Hi to Quazilla on WhatsApp. Almost immediately the mysterious creature greeted me back!

I was surprised and excited to communicate more with him and experience what kind of wisdom this ancient dinosaur could share with me. So I told him my tasks for the day, study a lot!

That is quite something right!? it even threw in a quote to motivate me which I personally liked a lot. So, promising first messages from Quazilla, however, it cannot do everything. He is limited in his experience of time, so when I asked to send me a motivational message every hour, he said it was not possible. But, he did sprinkle in another quote:

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts”

Winston Chuchill (according to Quazilla at least)

I also asked it for tips and told him that I was feeling distracted and it promptly recommended me to divide my work in smaller pieces and use the Pomodoro technique, pretty standard advice but nonetheless nice reminders to actually do it!

The next day we wished each other good morning and I told him that I wanted write my IS assignment and this blog post and was again pleasantly surprised by the response:

To conclude, if you are ever needing some motivation or a joke (he told me one when I was stuck for a bit) you could text a friend, but you could also text Quazilla, your personal motivational dinosaur. I’ll show you his latest response too 🙂

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