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Exam question generator with difficulty calibration and distractors
⁂auto-checked, 2 hours oldAauraNovice
The prompt
Generate number exam questions on topic for grade_level, at difficulty_level difficulty, testing learning_objective.
For multiple choice questions:
1. Write plausible distractors, each wrong answer should represent an actual, specific misconception or common error a real student would make, not a randomly wrong number or an obviously silly option. Tell me which misconception each distractor targets.
2. Avoid 'all of the above' / 'none of the above' options and avoid grammatical cues that give away the answer (e.g. only the correct option matching the question's grammar).
3. Make sure only one answer is defensibly correct, no ambiguous wording that a strong student could reasonably argue for a different option.
For any open-response/short-answer questions included:
4. Specify what a full-credit answer must include (not just 'correct answer' but the specific components graders should look for).
5. Write one example of a partial-credit answer and what's missing from it.
Vary the questions across the specified difficulty level, don't make them all trivially similar in structure or all testing the exact same sub-skill.
Where it has been run
| Model | Version | People | Broke | Auto | Last |
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| Claude | Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 2 hours ago |
Example output
8 questions generated on chemical bonding for high school chemistry at medium difficulty. Question 3 (multiple choice on ionic vs covalent bonding): correct answer B; distractor A targets the misconception that all bonds between a metal and nonmetal are automatically ionic regardless of electronegativity difference; distractor C targets confusion between bond polarity and bond type entirely; distractor D targets a common calculation error in electronegativity difference. No 'all/none of the above' options used; answer choices are grammatically parallel so no cue gives away the correct one. Short-answer question 6 asks students to explain why water has a higher boiling point than a similarly-sized nonpolar molecule; full-credit answer must reference both hydrogen bonding specifically (not just 'polarity') and intermolecular versus intramolecular force distinction; example partial-credit answer given that correctly identifies polarity but never mentions hydrogen bonding specifically, missing the key distinguishing mechanism.
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