University-level assessment in Imtihan works differently from the school curricula it also supports: instead of choosing from a fixed chapter list, a professor describes the course (or uploads a syllabus), and every question Imtihan generates is grounded in that material — plus, for Lebanese university courses, in real past exam sessions from the same faculty where those are relevant.
Beyond Multiple Choice
Drafting open-ended, scenario-based problems is an immense time investment for any professor. A single well-constructed applied-mechanics or organic-chemistry question can take longer to write than to grade — and the marking scheme has to be just as carefully reasoned as the question itself.
Professor's Tip
“Uploading your own lecture notes lets the generated questions match your exact notation and nomenclature, which avoids the student confusion a mismatched notation style can cause during finals.”
Why There's No Fixed University Chapter List
For the Lebanese Baccalaureate, the French Baccalaureate, and the IB, Imtihan validates every chapter it references against a curriculum database sourced from each system's official programme — a chapter that isn't in that database simply can't be offered, so the exam can't reference material a student was never taught.
University courses don't have one universal programme to check against — a Structural Analysis course at one Lebanese university covers different ground than one at another. Rather than guessing at a generic syllabus and risking a mismatch with what was actually taught, Imtihan keeps university content free-form: your own description and any uploaded material are the source of truth, not an assumed chapter list.
Grounding Style in Real Past Exams
For Lebanese university courses specifically, past exam papers circulated among students — commonly called dawrat — are a second source of grounding. When your course description points to a specific Lebanese university course, Imtihan favors matching that institution's own exam style and difficulty over generic international conventions — the same principle education researcher John Biggs described in a 1996 paper as constructive alignment: assessment should mirror how a course was actually taught and examined, not a generic template.
What a Generated University Exam Includes
- Exercises grounded strictly in your description, uploaded syllabus, or lecture notes — not invented topics.
- A full corrigé with worked methodology alongside each answer, not just a final value.
- Per-exercise controls to regenerate, edit, or adjust difficulty without redoing the whole exam.
- Word and PDF export, formatted for printing.
- Optional Version A/B generation to reduce copying in large lecture halls.
Where the Line Is Today
In its current release, Imtihan generates university exams in Math, Physics, and Chemistry, in French or English. Arabic-language generation, Biology/SVT, and Informatique aren't part of the current version — they're on the roadmap, not something to expect from today's build. Spend less time on administrative drafting within that scope, and more time on the parts of teaching that actually need a professor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Imtihan use a fixed chapter list for university courses, the way it does for the Lebanese Baccalaureate?
No. University is intentionally free-form in Imtihan's data model — there is no fixed university chapter list to pick from. Grounding comes instead from the professor's own course description, any syllabus or lecture notes uploaded, and, for Lebanese university courses, past exam sessions ("dawrat") from the same faculty when they're relevant to question style and difficulty.
Can I upload my own lecture notes or past exams?
Yes. You can upload course material — slides, typed notes, or a past exam — during the description step, and the generated exercises reuse your own notation and terminology instead of generic textbook phrasing.
Which subjects does Imtihan support at university level right now?
The MVP covers Math, Physics, and Chemistry, generated in French or English. Biology/SVT and Informatique are not yet supported and are planned for a later release, not the current version.