Using conditionals inside mcexam
I want to write exams where the questions and answers are randomized, and mcexam lets me do almost everything I want. However, I would also like each question to be picked randomly from a group of questions. For instance, I may want one question on the exam about the product rule, so from a group of 5 questions, one of them is randomly selected to be on the exam. I'm currently using pgfmath and I thought it was working great, but then I realized that sometimes it takes bits and parts of the questions and pieces them together.
In the code there are two questions to be picked from: "Which is not a fruit?" and "What color is an emerald?" What's happening is the output will have "Which is not a fruit?" but then the answer choices are the ones for "What color is an emerald?" or vice versa. Why is this happening and is there something I can do to fix this? I am not overly familiar with latex. Thanks!
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{pgfmath}
usepackage{tikz,framed}
usepackage[output=exam
,numberofversions=1
,version=1
,seed=6
,randomizequestions=true
,randomizeanswers=true
,writeRfile=false
]{mcexam}
begin{document}
begin{mcquestions}
question
pgfmathrandom{2} % store 1 or 2 in pgfmathresult
ifnumpgfmathresult=2
{
Which is not a fruit?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Pepper
answer Apple
answer Grape
answer Banana
end{mcanswerslist}
}
else
{ What color is an emerald?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Green
answer Blue
answer Red
answer Yellow
end{mcanswerslist}
}
fi
question
This is the second question, needed in order to run.
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Answer 1
answer Answer 2
answer Answer 3
answer Answer 4
end{mcanswerslist}
end{mcquestions}
end{document}
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I want to write exams where the questions and answers are randomized, and mcexam lets me do almost everything I want. However, I would also like each question to be picked randomly from a group of questions. For instance, I may want one question on the exam about the product rule, so from a group of 5 questions, one of them is randomly selected to be on the exam. I'm currently using pgfmath and I thought it was working great, but then I realized that sometimes it takes bits and parts of the questions and pieces them together.
In the code there are two questions to be picked from: "Which is not a fruit?" and "What color is an emerald?" What's happening is the output will have "Which is not a fruit?" but then the answer choices are the ones for "What color is an emerald?" or vice versa. Why is this happening and is there something I can do to fix this? I am not overly familiar with latex. Thanks!
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{pgfmath}
usepackage{tikz,framed}
usepackage[output=exam
,numberofversions=1
,version=1
,seed=6
,randomizequestions=true
,randomizeanswers=true
,writeRfile=false
]{mcexam}
begin{document}
begin{mcquestions}
question
pgfmathrandom{2} % store 1 or 2 in pgfmathresult
ifnumpgfmathresult=2
{
Which is not a fruit?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Pepper
answer Apple
answer Grape
answer Banana
end{mcanswerslist}
}
else
{ What color is an emerald?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Green
answer Blue
answer Red
answer Yellow
end{mcanswerslist}
}
fi
question
This is the second question, needed in order to run.
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Answer 1
answer Answer 2
answer Answer 3
answer Answer 4
end{mcanswerslist}
end{mcquestions}
end{document}
conditionals pgfmath mcexam
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I want to write exams where the questions and answers are randomized, and mcexam lets me do almost everything I want. However, I would also like each question to be picked randomly from a group of questions. For instance, I may want one question on the exam about the product rule, so from a group of 5 questions, one of them is randomly selected to be on the exam. I'm currently using pgfmath and I thought it was working great, but then I realized that sometimes it takes bits and parts of the questions and pieces them together.
In the code there are two questions to be picked from: "Which is not a fruit?" and "What color is an emerald?" What's happening is the output will have "Which is not a fruit?" but then the answer choices are the ones for "What color is an emerald?" or vice versa. Why is this happening and is there something I can do to fix this? I am not overly familiar with latex. Thanks!
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{pgfmath}
usepackage{tikz,framed}
usepackage[output=exam
,numberofversions=1
,version=1
,seed=6
,randomizequestions=true
,randomizeanswers=true
,writeRfile=false
]{mcexam}
begin{document}
begin{mcquestions}
question
pgfmathrandom{2} % store 1 or 2 in pgfmathresult
ifnumpgfmathresult=2
{
Which is not a fruit?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Pepper
answer Apple
answer Grape
answer Banana
end{mcanswerslist}
}
else
{ What color is an emerald?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Green
answer Blue
answer Red
answer Yellow
end{mcanswerslist}
}
fi
question
This is the second question, needed in order to run.
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Answer 1
answer Answer 2
answer Answer 3
answer Answer 4
end{mcanswerslist}
end{mcquestions}
end{document}
conditionals pgfmath mcexam
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I want to write exams where the questions and answers are randomized, and mcexam lets me do almost everything I want. However, I would also like each question to be picked randomly from a group of questions. For instance, I may want one question on the exam about the product rule, so from a group of 5 questions, one of them is randomly selected to be on the exam. I'm currently using pgfmath and I thought it was working great, but then I realized that sometimes it takes bits and parts of the questions and pieces them together.
In the code there are two questions to be picked from: "Which is not a fruit?" and "What color is an emerald?" What's happening is the output will have "Which is not a fruit?" but then the answer choices are the ones for "What color is an emerald?" or vice versa. Why is this happening and is there something I can do to fix this? I am not overly familiar with latex. Thanks!
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{pgfmath}
usepackage{tikz,framed}
usepackage[output=exam
,numberofversions=1
,version=1
,seed=6
,randomizequestions=true
,randomizeanswers=true
,writeRfile=false
]{mcexam}
begin{document}
begin{mcquestions}
question
pgfmathrandom{2} % store 1 or 2 in pgfmathresult
ifnumpgfmathresult=2
{
Which is not a fruit?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Pepper
answer Apple
answer Grape
answer Banana
end{mcanswerslist}
}
else
{ What color is an emerald?
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Green
answer Blue
answer Red
answer Yellow
end{mcanswerslist}
}
fi
question
This is the second question, needed in order to run.
begin{mcanswerslist}
answer[correct] Answer 1
answer Answer 2
answer Answer 3
answer Answer 4
end{mcanswerslist}
end{mcquestions}
end{document}
conditionals pgfmath mcexam
conditionals pgfmath mcexam
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