This is the documentation for ueaexam, a class le for typesetting exam sheets. It is loosely based on the sys-exam package and on the standard article class le1.
The following packages are automatically loaded:
If the times class option is speci ed, the following packages are also loaded:
The exsizes bundle is required if any of the class options 14pt, 17pt or 20pt are used.
and put SOLUTIONS banner across every page.
If this command has been de ned before ueaexam is loaded, it will be executed during the option processing stage. This can be used to set up a script to generate exam sheet and solution sheet without having to modify the document. For example, suppose the document is called exam2011.tex and loads ueaexam without any class options:
then the exam sheet (exam2011.pdf) can be create using:
and the solution sheet (exam2011-solutions.pdf) can be created using (no line breaks):
As from version 2.01, there are extra class options 14pt, 17pt and 20pt in order to produce larger font sizes. Note that to use these options you must have the extsizes bundle installed2.
Returning to the example in the previous section where the document is called exam2011.tex, the large-font exam sheet (exam2011-large.pdf) can be created using (no line breaks):
Alternatively, you can use an external application to resize the A4 document. For example (no line breaks):
The following commands may be used in the preamble:
Used to specify the total number of marks for each question. (Default: 15). If the marks for a question don't add up to this value, a warning is issued in draft mode and an error is issued in nal mode. You can suppress the score check using the noscorecheck class option.
As \questiontotal but has a global e ect.
Used to specify the name of the university. Defaults to University of East Anglia .
Used to specify the name of the school. Defaults to School of Computing Sciences .
Used to specify the sitting of the exam. For example:
or
Used to specify the academic year (e.g. 2010/11). Defaults to the current academic year.
Used to specify the course code and name. For example:
Used to specify the time allowed. For example:
Used to specify the exam version number, as required by the new regulations. For example:
Used to specify the module contact name, as required by the new regulations. For example:
The rubric on the front page regarding the number of questions to be done in each section can be automatically generated using the \section command (see below), however additional information can be added using the command \rubric. For example:
This will put the words TURN OVER at the bottom of each page3 except for the last page. (This is the default.)
Prevents the words TURN OVER appearing at the bottom of each page.
The following commands may be used within the document:
This makes the title page. It should be the rst command in the document environment.
This is used to indicate the maximum number of marks for a question or part of question. For example:
This adds hnumberi to the running total for the current question and displays the mark using
which has the default de nition: \marginpar{[\marklabel{hmarki}]} where
prints hmarki followed by either mark (where hmarki is 1) or marks .
The \score command must be used within an enumerate environment.
This is the only sectioning command de ned within this class le. This command issues a \clearpage, prints SECTION followed by the section letter (e.g. A), and on the following line it prints the argument. Both lines are centrally aligned. As usual, the section can be referenced using \label and \ref. For example, the input:
would produce the output:
SECTION A
Answer TWO questions from this Section.
The \section command may occur within an enumerate or any of the other list-making environments, provided at least one \item precedes it. This means that all the exam questions can be placed within a single enumerate environment, ensuring consistent numbering throughout the document. Note that there is no starred version of this command.
If the argument hNumber of Questions to Be Answeredi is a number or the strings all or the, the full section title and rubric information will be generated automatically. For example:
will produce:
SECTION A
Answer ALL questions from this Section.
and it will add ALL questions from Section A to the rubric information on answering questions.
Alternatively, the section title and the rubric information can be explicitly entered using:
For example:
This may be used to insert any additional text to the rubric. The above note also applies to this command.
(Note the initial capital letter.) This may be used to specify the solution to the problem. The solution is only displayed if the solutions class option is used. Figures and tables within the argument of \Solution will have di erent numbering to those outside of \Solution. This ensures that the gures and tables that form part of the questions retain the same numbering in the solution sheet. The solution text is formatted according to
This defaults to slanted sans-serif.
As from v4.08, the argument of \Solution may contain verbatim text.
It's possible to de ne the exam questions in a di erent le. This makes it easier to change the ordering of the questions within the exam. Questions can be de ned using:
For example:
There is a short-cut command
For example, the above can also be written as:
You can use the textenum environment for in-line numbered lists. This environment uses the same counter as the corresponding enumerate level, so answers that require longer passages than the question can use the same numbering system. For example:
In your document, you can load the questions using one of the following:
Loads all problems de ned in h lei into a database named hdb namei.
Loads the problems de ned in h lei whose labels are given in hlabel listi into a database named hdb namei.
Loads the problems de ned in h lei whose labels are not given in hlabel listi into a database named hdb namei.
Loads hni randomly selected problems de ned in h lei into a database named hdb namei.
Once you have loaded the required problems, you can either explicitly select problems using:
or you can iterate over all problems using:
Within hbodyi, you can use
to use the current problem and
to access the current label.
The following is a short sample document illustrating the use of this class le:
In the following example, the exam is made up of three sections, where each section is written by a di erent lecturer (call them Dr A, Dr B and Dr C.) Rather than the lecturers trying to determine who has the most up-to-date version of the le, the questions for each section are de ned in three separate les, say A.tex, B.tex and C.tex. In this way, each lecturer can independently edit their own questions.
Suppose Dr A is providing questions on counting, then A.tex might look like:
Suppose Dr B is providing questions on di erentiation, then B.tex might look like:
Suppose Dr C is providing questions on set theory, then C.tex might look like:
The main le might then look as follows:
Some of the code was amended by G. Janacek.
A
C
calc package 5
class options:
10pt 6
11pt 7
12pt 8
14pt 9, 10, 11
17pt 12, 13, 14
20pt 15, 16, 17
a3paper 18
a4paper 19
draft 20, 21
final 22
fleqn 23
leqno 24
nonotesallowed 25
noscorecheck 26
nosolutions 27
notesallowed 28
notimes 29
oneside 30
scorecheck 31
solutions 32, 33, 34
times 35, 36
twoside 37
watermarkfirst 38
\contact 39
courier package 40
\course 41
D
defproblem (environment) 42
drawwatermark package 43
E
enumerate (environment) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
enumerate package 49
environments:
defproblem 50
enumerate 51, 52, 53, 54, 55
inparaenum 56
textenum 57, 58, 59
etoolbox package 60
\examyear 61
exsizes package 62
extsizes package 63
F
fmtcount package 64
\foreachproblem 65
fp package 66
G
geometry package 67
\gquestiontotal 68
graphicx package 69, 70
H
helvet package 71
I
ifthen package 72
inparaenum (environment) 73
\item 74
L
lmodern package 75
\loadallproblems 76
\loadexceptproblems 77
\loadrandomproblems 78
\loadselectedproblems 79
M
\maketitle 80
\marklabel 81
mathptmx package 82
N
\newproblem 83
P
package options:
noscorecheck 84
paralist package 85
probsoln package 86, 87
R
\rubric 90
S
\school 91
\score 92
\scoreformat 93
\section 94, 95
\sitting 96
\Solution 97, 98, 99
\solutionfont 100
sys-exam package 101
T
textenum (environment) 102, 103, 104
\thisproblem 105
\thisproblemlabel 106
\timeallowed 107
\turnoverfalse 108
\turnovertrue 109
U
ueaexam class 110, 111, 112
\ueaexamhook 113
\university 114
\useproblem 115
V
\version 116
X
xcolor package 117
1although not all the commands de ned in the article.cls article are available in this class le
2If you don't have this package it can be download from http://www.ctan.org/pkg/extsizes
3odd pages only, if two sided printing speci ed
4This shouldn't be much of a problem as it's unlikely that there will be any, although it does mean that you can't use any spacing macros (such as ˜) either.