A UTF-8 plain-text .txt file. Each line is one flashcard: the term, a tab, then the definition. These four lines are what a four-question quiz produces.
A quiz becomes a set of flashcards
Quizlet's import does not create quizzes. It creates flashcard sets: pairs of a term and a definition. So the Quizlet export turns each question into a card, with the question as the term and the correct answer as the definition. Students then study the set in Quizlet like any other set they made themselves. This suits revision of facts, vocabulary and definitions well. It suits questions that depend on choosing between options less well, because the wrong options are not part of a flashcard.
Every question type in AI Quiz Maker becomes at least one card, so nothing is skipped for being the wrong type. Matching questions are split into one card per pair, which is usually the most useful shape for revision. Ordering questions keep their items in the correct order on the back of the card. The only questions left out are ones with no answer to put on the back of the card.
The file: one card per line, separated by a tab
The download is a UTF-8 plain-text .txt file. Each line is one card: the term, a tab character, then the definition. Quizlet's help page says terms and definitions can be separated by a comma, tab or dash and rows by a semicolon or a new line. We use a tab and a new line, because questions often contain commas and dashes and would be split in the wrong place otherwise. Line breaks inside a question or answer are turned into spaces so each card stays on its own line.
When a question has more than one correct answer, the answers are joined with a slash, for example "2 / 5". Fill-in-the-blank questions show each gap as five underscores in the term. Accented letters, other alphabets and our maths symbols such as x² and √ are kept, because the file is UTF-8 and the symbols are ordinary text rather than LaTeX.
Importing the cards into Quizlet, step by step
These steps follow Quizlet's help page as it read on 19 October 2026. Quizlet only lets you import on its website, not in the iOS or Android app, so use a computer. Open the .txt file you downloaded, select all of the text and copy it. Log in to Quizlet, select Create, then Flashcard set, and enter a title for the set.
Select Import, and paste the text into the Import field. Check that the separator between term and definition is set to Tab and the separator between rows is set to New line, so each line becomes one card with the question on the front. Select Import to add the terms and definitions, set the language for the terms and for the definitions, and select Create to save and publish the set. You can then study it in the Quizlet app as well.
Getting good flashcards out of a quiz
Short questions make the best cards. A question such as "Which of the following best describes..." reads oddly on the front of a flashcard because the options are not there, so before exporting, it is worth rewording those few questions in the editor so they stand on their own, for example "What is...". Our AI question menu can reword a question for you.
For a vocabulary or definitions set, generating FAQ, short-answer or matching questions gives cleaner cards than multiple choice, because the answer is already a short phrase. And if you want students to practise the multiple-choice questions as written, with feedback and a score you can see, share the quiz link from AI Quiz Maker as well: Quizlet is a separate copy, and nothing students do there comes back here.
What doesn't carry over
- Wrong answer options: a flashcard has only a term and a definition.
- Explanations and source quotes.
- Alternative accepted answers for short-answer questions (only the model answer is used).
- Images and formatting, including line breaks inside a question.
- The quiz title, which you type as the set title in Quizlet.
- Later edits and results. The Quizlet set is a separate copy.