Exams & Quizzes

Quizzes, Exercises & Exit Tickets

Get a short set of questions back in the chat in seconds. Name the count, the format and the difficulty, and the questions arrive before the bell.

You have five minutes. The lesson is nearly over and you want three questions to see who understood. This is the fastest thing Twiga does. The questions come back inside the chat, as text you read off your phone or copy onto the board. There is no file to download and nothing to open.

Name three things and send

A good request names how many questions you want, what format they should take, and how hard they should be. The topic is the fourth thing, and it is often free. If you just asked Twiga about a topic, you can point back at it instead of typing it again.

Part	What to type
How many	`3 question`, `5 short questions`
What format	`exit ticket`, `practice activity`, `short questions`
How hard	`mixed difficulty`, `easy`, `challenge`
On what	The topic, or a pointer back: `the law you just gave me`

Here is the whole thing in one line. Send it as it is.

set me a quick 3 question exit ticket on Newton's First Law for Form 2, mixed difficulty

Write it in English or in Kiswahili. The reply comes back in the language you used. See Language: English & Kiswahili for what to proofread in a Kiswahili reply.

What comes back

This is a real exchange. A moment earlier the teacher had asked for a one line intro to Newton's First Law. So this request never names the topic again. It says "the law you just gave me", and Twiga picks it up.

TTwiga

ugh the headteacher just called an emergency meeting in 5. im so tired. anyway can you set me a quick 3 question exit ticket for the law you just gave me? mixed difficulty

Of course! Here's a quick 3-question exit ticket on Newton's First Law with easy, medium and challenge levels, perfect for Form 2 students: 1. What happens to a ball lying on the ground if no one kicks it? Explain using Newton's First Law. 2. A passenger in a moving car jerks forward when the car suddenly stops. Use Newton's First Law to explain why. 3. True or False: An object in motion always needs a force to keep moving. Explain your answer. Let me know if you want the marking guide. I can send it in 10 seconds!

That reply came back six seconds after the request. Two things in it are worth looking at.

The three questions are banded. Easy, then medium, then challenge. Saying mixed difficulty is what produced that spread.
Question 3 asks them to explain. A bare true or false question is a coin toss. Adding explain your answer turns it into a check on what the class actually believes.

Formats that work

These three have all come back in full, inside the chat.

An exit ticket. Two or three questions for the last minutes of a lesson, banded easy to challenge.
Short questions in exam style.Twiga suggests this wording itself: "Create 5 short questions on petty cash book for Form 2". It says these come with marking points.
A full practice activity. One request produced role-play scenarios in pairs, one minute speech prompts and group discussion tasks. A five point assessment checklist came at the end of the same reply.

The same shape works on other subjects. Here is Twiga's own suggested wording for Book Keeping, with the verb that brings it back in the chat.

write me 5 short questions on petty cash book for form 2

Say write me, not generate an exercise

The verb decides whether the questions arrive. Asking Twiga to write or set questions brings them back in the chat in seconds. Asking it to generate an exercisehands the job to a separate tool. That tool failed every time it ran in five months of use. It sends "Generating exercises from the course content, please hold..." over and over, then gives up.

If it starts holding, send this line

A teacher found the way out. Ask for the same thing again and tell Twiga to skip the tool. The full activity came back fifteen seconds later.

just write it here, no need to generate the exercise

So adding the word exercise to a request makes it less likely to arrive, not more. If it keeps stalling, see When Twiga Doesn't Reply.

Before it goes to the class

Read the questions once before you use them. Two things are worth a moment.

Check the facts against your book.Twiga lists its own coverage as Mathematics, Physics and Book Keeping for Form 1 and Form 2. Ask outside that list and it usually writes the questions anyway. They come back reading just as well, right or wrong. Read them the way you would read a colleague's handout. There is more on this in What Twiga Cannot Do.
Ask for the answers. Twiga offers a marking guide at the end of a quiz and offers to build a marking scheme after an activity. It does not send one unless you say yes. That is one more message.

Quizzes stay in the chat

Everything on this page arrives as chat text. Only a full mock exam comes back as a file you can save.

Where to go next

Marking Schemes & Answer KeysHow to ask for the answers to a quiz, and the three different things Twiga sends when you do.Full NECTA Mock ExamsWhen you need a whole paper instead of three questions, and the ten minutes it takes.Turning Chat Text Into PrintablesGetting a quiz out of WhatsApp and onto paper for the class.