How ExamShuffle works
Five steps, start to finish. Most exams take a couple of minutes, and the longest part is confirming the answers.
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Upload the exam you already wrote
A .docx or .pdf with numbered questions. Nothing needs reformatting first, and there is no template to fill in.
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Check what was read
Every question is listed for review. Anything the reader was unsure about is flagged, and you can fix the text, change a question type, or delete and add questions.
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Choose how many versions
Between 2 and 26. Pick whether sets are labelled by letter or number, and whether question numbering restarts in each section.
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Preview each version
See exactly what each paper will contain, including its answer key. Reshuffle as many times as you like — it happens in your browser, so it is instant.
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Download
Word or PDF, one version at a time or all of them in a ZIP, with each answer key alongside its own paper and a master key across every version. Choose A4, Letter or Legal paper, a larger print size, or compact spacing to save paper.
How questions and answers are found
The reader looks for numbered questions, each followed by its options lettered A to H. A line in capitals between questions, such as “PART II: TRUE OR FALSE”, starts a new section. A question that runs unusually long is flagged, because that is what two questions read as one look like.
Correct answers are taken from two places when your document has them: an option set in bold (or underlined, in a Word file), and an answer key written as a list such as “1. C, 2. A”. A key found at the end of the document is used for the answers and left out of the questions. Every answer found this way is still marked for you to confirm, since a bold word in a question can look like a marked answer.
What changes between versions, and what does not
Every version contains exactly the same questions and the same options as your original; only the order differs. If your exam is split into sections, the sections are reordered and the questions are shuffled within their own section, so a question never moves into a different part of the paper. Numbering can run straight through the paper or restart in each section.
Answer choices are reordered only where that is safe. “All of the above”, “None of the above” and “Both of the above” keep their position while the other options move around them. An option that names others by letter, such as “Both A and B” or “A, B and C”, would be wrong after any reordering, so the options of that question stay exactly as you wrote them.
Correct answers are spread evenly across the answer letters in every version, and long runs of the same letter are avoided, so no key leans on one answer.
Why each answer key matches its paper
Each answer is attached to the option itself, not to its letter. When the options move, the answer moves with them, and every version’s key is written from that version’s own order rather than adjusted from the original. Each set of versions also comes from a single random seed, and the same seed always produces the same papers, which is why the preview you approve is the file you download.
Printing and grading
Every page footer reads like “Set B · Page 2 of 4”, so a page that comes loose from its stack can be matched to the right key. Downloading every version with keys adds a master key: one table with each question from your original document, its number in every version, and its answer there — the quickest way to grade a mixed pile, or to tally which of your original questions students missed most.
Limits
- 2 to 26 versions, labelled Set A to Set Z or Set 1 onwards.
- Up to 200 questions and 40 sections per exam.
- 2 to 8 options per multiple-choice question.
- Files up to 10 MB, as .docx or as a PDF with a text layer.
- A very short exam has only so many distinct orders. Ask for more versions than it can produce and you are warned before generating that some will be identical.
If the reader gets it wrong
It sometimes will — exam documents vary enormously. The review screen is the safety net: every question can be edited, added, or deleted by hand, so a bad read costs you a correction rather than the whole attempt.