You are asking Jackson to parse a StudentList. Tell it to parse a List (of students) instead. Since List is generic you will typically use a TypeReference

List<Student> participantJsonList = mapper.readValue(jsonString, new TypeReference<List<Student>>(){});

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();     
JSONArray jsonArray = (JSONArray)jsonObject; 
if (jsonArray != null) { 
   int len = jsonArray.length();
   for (int i=0;i<len;i++){ 
    list.add(jsonArray.get(i).toString());
   } 
} 

You have to create another class say Output as

import java.util.List;

public class Output {
    public List<Token> getTokens() {
        return tokens;
    }

    public void setTokens(List<Token> tokens) {
        this.tokens = tokens;
    }

    private List<Token> tokens;
}

and then use

Output output = new Gson().fromJson(json, Output.class);

then you can use output to get list of tokens and go further for suggestion etc

You can use the below methods to read from a file and convert the JSON array to a List of Questions.

public String readJsonFromFile(String filePath) throws IOException, ParseException {
    String json = Files.readString(Paths.get("file path"));
    return new JSONParser().parse(json).toString();
}


public List<Question> convert(String JsonString) throws JsonMappingException, JsonProcessingException {
        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
        CollectionType typeReference =
                TypeFactory.defaultInstance().constructCollectionType(List.class, Question.class);
        List<Question> questions =  om.readValue(JsonString, typeReference);
        return questions;
    }

If your JSON keys and Java class fields are different, use @JsonPropery annotation to map keys to fields

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

public class Question {
    

    @JsonProperty("question")
    private String title;
    @JsonProperty("answer 1")
    private String a1;
    @JsonProperty("answer 2")
    private String a2;
    @JsonProperty("answer 3")
    private String a3;
    @JsonProperty("correct answer")
    private String cA;

    //setters & getters
}

Required Jars:
jackson-annotations.jar
jackson-core.jar
jackson-databind.jar
json-simple.jar //used to parse Json file to String