Most pitches for an AI "quiz generator" focus entirely on the writing side โ it produces the questions faster than a teacher typing them by hand. That's true, but it undersells where the actual time goes for a formally marked quiz specifically, as distinct from an ungraded worksheet: writing the questions was rarely the slow part. Assigning marks per question, then adding them all up correctly across a mixed-format quiz, is the part that eats an evening for no pedagogical benefit.
This is worth separating clearly from a worksheet, since the two get conflated constantly and the time-saving math is different for each. A worksheet is practice โ no marks, no total, reviewed and corrected rather than scored. A quiz or assessment is formally marked: MCQs might carry one mark each, a short question three, a long question five, and the total has to actually be correct before it goes anywhere near a student, since a wrong total on a returned quiz is the kind of mistake that gets noticed immediately.
Manually building that from scratch means writing the question, assigning it a mark value, and keeping a running total by hand or in a separate spreadsheet as the quiz comes together โ and re-checking that total every time a question gets added, removed, or reworded, since a mixed-format quiz makes manual re-totaling genuinely easy to get wrong on a busy evening.
Quiz & Assessment is built specifically around removing that arithmetic step, not just the question-writing step: MCQs, true/false, fill-in-the-blanks, and short questions are generated with per-question marks already assigned, and the total is calculated automatically as the quiz is built โ not as a separate manual pass at the end. Adjusting a question's marks in the editor recalculates the total immediately, so the quiz stays accurate through edits, not just at first generation.
The output is mapped to SLOs for the selected board, the same curriculum-scoping used across the Lesson Planner and the Worksheet Builder, so a quiz on a Punjab-board chapter and an FBISE chapter of the same name aren't treated as interchangeable. And because it draws from the same Content History & Reuse as the other two generators, a topic already taught as a lesson and practiced as a worksheet can become a quiz without re-typing the class, subject, or chapter a third time that week.
Worth being precise about what auto-totalled marks are, and aren't: a calculation aid, not a grading authority. The total updates automatically as marks are assigned or edited, but every quiz is a draft a teacher reviews before it's used with students โ nothing is auto-graded against student answers, and nothing goes to print without that review step first.
It's included in the same Free-tier generation pool as the other two generators, so testing it against one real quiz you'd otherwise build by hand โ questions plus marks plus a total that has to actually add up correctly โ is the direct way to see whether the time saved is in the writing, the totaling, or, as it usually turns out for a formally marked quiz specifically, mostly the second one.