[Tex/LaTex] Exam document class

exam

At the moment my document displays the marks for a bonus questions as, e.g. (3 (bonus)). I don't want the bonus to be there; I just want (3).

I'm using the command \bonuspointpoints{mark}{marks} but it seems to be being ignored and the marks still appear with (bonus) in brackets.

Any suggestions?

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,bothsides]{exam}
\pagestyle{headandfoot}
\marksnotpoints
\pointsinrightmargin
\addpoints
\totalformat{{\bf (\totalpoints \, marks)}}
\bonustotalformat{{\bf (\totalbonuspoints \, marks)}}
\bonuspointpoints{mark}{marks}

\begin{document}
\begin{questions}
\bonusquestion[3] What is my name?
\end{questions}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Looks like you have to tweak at two places,

\bonuspointname{\relax} will reset the word bonus. Try playing putting other words in place of \relax.
\bonuspointformat controls the actual format how the actual points are displayed. You can get your intended format using \bonuspointformat{[\thepoints]}.

So, your minimal example becomes,

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,bothsides]{exam}
\pagestyle{headandfoot}
\marksnotpoints
\pointsinrightmargin
\addpoints
\totalformat{{\bf (\totalpoints \, marks)}}
\bonustotalformat{{\bf (\totalbonuspoints \, marks)}}

\begin{document}

\bonuspointname{\relax}
\bonuspointformat{[\thepoints]}


\begin{questions}
\bonusquestion[3] What is your name?
\end{questions}
\end{document}

I did not know about this package before, so answering your question was an introduction to a very useful package.

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I assumed you wanted multiple choice because you mentioned the oneparchoices environment. I used the xpatch package to replace the 1em between choices with \hfill to evenly space the choices. This is good for very short answers. If you have longer answers, then you should look at some of the answers in this question. The code in the initial question (first code block) works well.

\documentclass[11pt]{exam}
\RequirePackage{amssymb, amsfonts, amsmath, latexsym, verbatim, xspace, setspace}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\oneparchoices}{\penalty -50\hskip 1em plus 1em\relax}{\hfill}{}{}
\xpatchcmd{\oneparchoices}{\penalty -50\hskip 1em plus 1em\relax}{\hfill}{}{}

\begin{document}

\begin{questions}
\question
First multiple choice question, with five evenly spread choices:

\begin{oneparchoices}
    \choice First.
    \choice Second.
    \choice Third.
    \choice Fourth.
    \choice Fifth. 
 \end{oneparchoices}

\question
Second multiple choice question, with four evenly spread choices:

\begin{oneparchoices}
    \choice First.
    \choice Second.
    \choice Third.
    \choice Fourth.
 \end{oneparchoices}

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Be careful. It gets screwy when the answers are long. 

\begin{oneparchoices}
    \choice First not long at all.
    \choice Second somewhat longer.
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[Tex/LaTex] Determining total points in a section with exam class

This is another solution that uses a fake counter for printing fake question numbers.

First of all, we define the counter (which gets reset at each \section) and the format for titled questions and titled bonus questions:

\newcounter{fakecount}[section]
\qformat{\thefakecount. (\thepoints) \thequestiontitle\hfill}
\bonusqformat{\thefakecount. (\thebonuspoints) \thequestiontitle\hfill}

At the beginning of questions we redefine \titledquestion and \bonustitledquestion to increment the fake counter:

\let\oldtitledquestion\titledquestion
\renewcommand{\titledquestion}{\stepcounter{fakecount}\oldtitledquestion}
\let\oldbonustitledquestion\bonustitledquestion
\renewcommand{\bonustitledquestion}{\stepcounter{fakecount}\oldbonustitledquestion}

At this point, you only have to use \titledquestion instead of \question and \bonustitledquestion instead of \bonusquestion to let it work.

MWE (notice the use of \leavevmode before EnvFullwidth environments to avoid unwanted behaviors...)

\documentclass[11pt,addpoints]{exam}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcounter{fakecount}[section]
\qformat{\thefakecount. (\thepoints) \thequestiontitle\hfill}
\bonusqformat{\thefakecount. (\thebonuspoints) \thequestiontitle\hfill}

\begin{document}

\begin{questions}
\let\oldtitledquestion\titledquestion
\renewcommand{\titledquestion}{\stepcounter{fakecount}\oldtitledquestion}
\let\oldbonustitledquestion\bonustitledquestion
\renewcommand{\bonustitledquestion}{\stepcounter{fakecount}\oldbonustitledquestion}

\begin{EnvFullwidth}
\section{Short Answer}
\lipsum[2]
\end{EnvFullwidth}

\begingradingrange{section1}
\titledquestion{First Question}[5]
\titledquestion{Second Question}[5]
\endgradingrange{section1}

\leavevmode
\begin{EnvFullwidth}
\section{Multiple Choice}
\lipsum[2]
\end{EnvFullwidth}

\begingradingrange{section2}
\titledquestion{First Question}[2]
\titledquestion{Second Question}[2]
\endgradingrange{section2}

\leavevmode
\begin{EnvFullwidth}
\section{Extra Credit}
\lipsum[2]
\end{EnvFullwidth}

\bonustitledquestion{Bonus}[5]
\end{questions}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|r|c|c|}
 \hline
 \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\textbf{Exam Score}}                           \\ \hline
 \textbf{Section} & \textbf{Points}                 & \textbf{Score} \\ \hline
 Short Answer     & \pointsinrange{section1}        &                \\ \hline
 Multiple Choice  & \pointsinrange{section2}        &                \\ \hline
 Bonus            & \numbonuspoints                 &                \\ \hline
 Total            & \numpoints                      &                \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

Output:

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