Questions tagged [exam]
the {exam} document class provides a number of useful features for typesetting exams - in particular it provides a `Question` environment with `parts`, and can keep track of points
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How can I typeset an exam or assignment paper?
I want to use LaTeX for exam and assignment papers for a class that I am teaching. I obviously could just do the whole thing myself. But, what alternatives are there for easily typesetting such ...
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Can LaTeX select a random line from another file?
Can LaTeX select a line from one file and include it in the main file? I use the exam class to make course exams. I like to include a brief quote related to the course in the footer of the last exam ...
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Generate exam from a question bank?
I am looking for a LaTeX package that will allow me to generate an exam with questions drawn from a particular question bank. Each question within the bank would be a self-contained block of LaTeX ...
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Creating Multiple Choice Questions Without using 'Exam' Class
I am working on a document with class article and I want to have multiple choice questions in it. Is this hard enough to do that I should change it to exam class? If not, how do I accomplish this?
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How to write a multiple choice test book with LaTeX?
I want to write a book which will consist of many multiple choice exam sheets. Putting the codes below into my preamble, I wrote the question like as
\begin{enumerate}
\item $2+2=?$
\choice $1$ \...
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How to automatically align the four choices of a multiple choice question in exam?
This question led to a new package:
multiple-choice
We can have three types of column typeset. See the image below:
The above image was created using the LaTeX code below:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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exam class - permute mc answer choices, generate answer key
I happily use the exam document class to create exams and quizzes. I often make at least part of my exams multiple choice, and I'd like to be able to
generate multiple versions of the exam by ...
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Variations of an exam
I'm using the great exam package to create exams. But sometimes there are many students so I need to create different "versions" - Group A and Group B.
Mainly the differences are only the numbers in ...
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Answers at the end of the exam document
I'm using the exam class, and I want to add answers. Right now the solutions are printet after the question, but before the next question. Ideally they would be presented at the end of a serie of ...
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Command already defined
I came across an odd problem compiling LaTeX exam.cls document producing with knitr. Pasted below is minimal reproducible code.
knitr compiles fine, but pdflatex terminated with:
Command \framed ...
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Customized bonus questions in exam class
I'm using the exam class (with the addpoints option) to create assignments, and I want to create some bonus questions. I have a customized question format that looks like this:
\qformat{Question \...
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Determining total points in a section with exam class
In an exam I am writing, I have a short answer section and a multiple choice section. Each of these sections should have questions starting at 1. As pointed out in this question, if you want to do ...
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Set indentation of choice in exam documentclass
I want to create an multiple choices question with this indenting format
1. ########
A. ###
B. ###
C. ###
2. ########
########
A. ###
B. ###
C. ###
The choices have same ...
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Automatic generation of pages with variable fields
I need to produce dozens of same pages, except for the part that each page has to have a different person's name on it. Imagine it as an exam, where the content is equal for every page, except that I ...
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How to define environments for questions and answers
I wish to do a simple question and answer sheet for my students. I'd like to have something like this:
\section{Differential Equations}
\begin{questions}
\begin{question}
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