Short-Answer Questions
2–3 mark short-answer questions with model answers, aligned to your board.
What Short-Answer Questions does
Writes 2–3 mark short-answer questions, each paired with a model answer, so you have both the question and the benchmark for marking it. Short-answer is the workhorse of the subjective paper — enough to test understanding and the ability to explain, without the length of a full essay. Aligning to your board matters because the expected depth of a two-mark answer is defined by the board’s pattern, and the model answers here follow it.
Every input, explained
- This reference is generated from the live tool definition, field by field.
- Align to curriculum
- Country, curriculum, and year group — written to this curriculum's terminology. Required.
- Subject list is scoped to the board and class you picked above. Required.
- Chapter / Topic
- Optionally narrow the output to one chapter or topic from the canonical syllabus. Leave empty to let the AI stay at subject level. Optional.
- Topic / content
- e.g. e.g. Nutrition in plants Required.
- Number of questions
- Default: 6. Optional.
- Output depth
- Choices: Concise — quick and tight · Standard · Detailed — extra depth & examples. Default: Standard. Optional.
- Choices: Yes — AI adds diagrams & images where helpful · No — text only. Default: Yes. Optional.
- Additional customization (optional)
- e.g. Anything else the AI should keep in mind — tone, format, constraints, examples… Optional.
How to use it
- Open Edukali AI Toolkit → All Tools, find Short-Answer Questions under Assessment and click the card.
- Fill in Align to curriculum, Subject, Topic / content (the remaining fields are optional).
- Choose an Output depth and, if you like, a specific AI model, then click Generate.
Not sure what to type? Click **Show example** in the form header — it fills every field with a real worked example (CBSE · Class 10 · Science) and shows a pre-generated result without spending any AI credits. Undo restores your draft. The runner also gives you a ✨ prompt assistant and voice input on text fields, file upload to pull in your own notes, and — where your board publishes one — an official-format proof panel.
Your questions & where to send them
This tool returns structured question cards (not just text) — each question renders with its options, answer and solution, and you can review or deselect individual questions before routing them anywhere.
- Send to → Question Bank
- Saves the selected questions into your library so they show up in every picker.
- Send to → Paper Canva
- Builds a print-ready paper from the questions and opens it on the canvas.
- Send to → Online Exam
- Creates a ready-to-schedule online exam pre-loaded with these questions.
- Send to → OMR
- One click: saves the questions, builds a paper and creates an OMR exam with printable bubble sheets.
- Send to → Offline (Answer Sheet)
- Same one-click chain, but creates an offline answer-sheet exam for scan-and-grade workflows.
- Add to Course
- Attaches the questions to an LMS course as a graded exam activity — see Add to Course.
Use the supplied model answers as your two- or three-point mark scheme — sharing them after a class attempt shows students concretely why a vague answer lost the second mark.