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Formatting Answer sheet
Added by Nikola Z. Guscic almost 11 years ago
I would like to design a 40 multiple choice answer sheet template in AMC-TXT. AMC automatically formats the separate
answer sheet in three columns.
That's OK.
After that I would like to fill the rest of the answer sheet with dotted lines. This would be a space to write
a long essay scored outside of AMC.
I thought of putting an Open question after 40 MCQ (shuffling is off), setting the option lines =15
and treating
it as indicative question. However, the width of the space for essay answer follows the width of the MCQ columns.
What I want to achieve instead is the following layout:
MCQ MCQ MCQ
MCQ MCQ MCQ
LONG E S S A Y
LONG E S S A Y
Can this be achieved in AMC-TXT? I don't mind a bit of LATEX code, but the document needs to be in AMC-TXT mode.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Replies (10)
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe almost 11 years ago
If you just need to cancel the 3-columns layout for an open question at the end, you can use something like
*([last] [[ \end{multicols} ]] *<lines=5> + Correct - Wrong *) [[ \begin{multicols}{3} ]]
The
multicols
LaTeX environment is used by AMC-TXT to render the 3-columns layout.RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Nikola Z. Guscic almost 11 years ago
Thank you for your suggestion.
I should emphasize that I am working in AMC-TXT. Latex is enabled and multicol package loaded but I get the
following string of error messages when I try to append the code above.
8 errors during LaTeX compiling (question sheet) LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{multicols}. Missing } inserted. Extra \endgroup. LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{multicols}. Extra \endgroup. Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. LaTeX Error: \begin{multicols} on input line 504 ended by \end{document}. Package multicol Error: Document end inside multicols environment.
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe almost 11 years ago
Can you send your source file?
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Nikola Z. Guscic almost 11 years ago
Sure, here it is
subscriptmode.tex - Darma Yudha 40MCQ template (2.2 kB)
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe almost 11 years ago
I see: my trick only works without separate answer sheet, sorry...
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Nikola Z. Guscic almost 11 years ago
Thank you for your assistance, I guess I will add the lines to the pdf file
using some pdf editor.
Best,
Niko Z.
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Raffaele Borrelli over 10 years ago
This is just to say that I am facing the same problem but I couldn't find a solution.
I have exactly the same exam structure with a separate answer sheet and I want to add
an open question at the end.
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Raffaele Borrelli over 10 years ago
Well, sorry, I just found an easy solution...
I just a pice of code to generate the rows directly into the question.
You can find the code easily by searching for "table to fill page exam.cls" on Google.
Lello
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Nikola Z. Guscic over 10 years ago
Interesting, this is certainly helpful.
The added code blends well with your template?
No problems during grading?
Thanks,
Niko Z.
RE: Formatting Answer sheet - Added by Raffaele Borrelli over 10 years ago
Yes, the code blends perfectly, but I have not yet checked if it works fine when grading but.
Technically, there should be no problem, I add the questions after the answer sheet, it only helps
me to make photocopies and save a copy of all the exams.
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