AI exam-question pipeline: ~80% of MCQs pass all checks, science questions still weak

SnooOpinions9858 · reddit · 2026-10-12

A developer building an AI question-bank feature for a high-school platform shares a working pipeline: LLM splits past papers into sub-questions tagged to curriculum objectives, a small model writes new questions, another model blind-answers them, and MCQ keys are verified in code against mark schemes. About 80% of MCQs pass all checks; structured/science questions are weaker until a mid-size model is used. They seek advice on PDF extraction (docling/marker), pgvector retrieval, batch API costs at scale, and eval approaches beyond human review.

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