Format exam papers
Version exam-n-1.3, 2018 November 21.
sample/
directory in the distribution
for the source of this. That demonstrates the final version of the
paper, as opposed to the ‘draft’ and ‘compose’ versions; there’s also
a version with this layout but
showing the solutions.http://purl.org/nxg/dist/exam-n
,
and the repository is available to
browse
(hg clone with HTTP).There are already multiple ‘exam’ LaTeX styles on CTAN, including the (original?) exam class, the extensive AcroTeX bundle, the examdesign and exams classes, and a variety of other packages which mention exams in some way. Some of these are more focused on generating quizzes (even doing things like randomising answers) or on having a highly customisable layout. Several (including ‘exam-n’) have support for generating versions of the exam document which include answers, for the benefit of markers.
What the ‘exam-n’ class can bring to this particular (rather crowded) party is:
The focus of the ‘exam-n’ class is on the careful collaborative process of assembling an exam, and many of the features are to do with checks to avoid mistakes. The result has, in effect, been validated by practice.
Unpack the distribution tarball or zip
file, and move the directory move-to-texmf
to some
location on the LaTeX search path. You're probably looking for a
directory called texmf-local
, or something like that.
With the version 1.1 release, the interface should now be regarded as rather stable. However version 1.1 was the first to be released outside Glasgow University, so there may be some changes to the interface which will emerge with broader use, as well as some bug fixes. The interface may, therefore, yet change. If you use this class to produce exams, you should therefore include a copy of the class file locally, rather than relying on a central version. If you need an earlier version of the class, let me know.
The class was called exam
until release 0.14, and
guexam
until release 1.1. In the first case, it was
renamed to avoid a conflict with a pre-existing LaTeX class with the
same name; and in the second it was renamed to make it more
generically useful to other institutions.
\partmarks
, and
add \defaultpartmarkscategory
.\end{document}
, in \includequestion
(author)
files (fixes issue 6).{figure*}
and {table*}
now produce an error.\vec
now produces correct greek bold maths.stix2
option, to use the
STIX2 font set.\rubric
and \baserubric
within a .clo
file.
This was advertised as being possible, but it seems it had never been tested!