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LaTeX Package for typesetting exam scripts

A more up to date version of this class is available on the website of the original author: https://math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls

This version is mostly including some modifications I needed at some point, that I did not push upstream since there was not git repository to make a pull request to. I am not the original author of this class, and I do not intend to maintain it. I am just sharing it in case it might be useful to someone else.

This is version 2.402 of the exam document class, dated February 10, 2015.

The exam document class, together with its user's guide examdoc.tex, attempts to make it easy for even a LaTeX novice to prepare exams. Simple commands are provided to:

1. Create questions, parts of questions, subparts of parts, and subsubparts of subparts, all with optional point values.

2. Create a grading table, indexed either by question number (listing each question and the total possible points for that question) or by page number (listing each page with points and the total possible points for that page). A grading table can cover the entire exam or just a part of the exam.

3. Create headers and footers that are each specified in three parts: One part to be left justified, one part to be centered, and one part to be right justified.

4. Have headers and/or footers that are different on the first page of the exam, different on the last page of the exam, and that vary depending on whether the page number is odd or even, or on whether the current page continues a question from a previous page, or on whether the last question on the current page continues onto the following page.

5. Have multiple line headers and/or footers, and to increase the part of the page devoted to headers and/or footers to allow for this.

6. Include solutions and have these solutions either printed or ignored (or replaced automatically by space in which the students can write their answers) depending on a single command.

7. Change the words that are inserted by the document class (for, e.g., point values, or table headings), so that they can be adapted to personal taste and/or languages other than English.

The user's guide examdoc.tex attempts to explain all of the possibilities in a readable way, with many specific examples.

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exam's Issues

Force \Alph to Latin symbols in exam class

I have an exam written in Arabic. Need Latin numbering for choices (A, B, C, D).

MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{exam}
            
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fontspec}

% Language setup
\setmainlanguage[numerals=maghrib]{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=0.9]{Amiri}

% Questions setup
\usepackage{alphalph}
\renewcommand{\thechoice}{\AlphaAlph{\value{choice}}}

\begin{document}

\begin{questions}
    \question
        أوجد قيمة $x$ في المقدار اﻵتي:
    \begin{choices}
        \choice 1
        \choice 2
        \choice 3
        \choice 4
    \end{choices}
\end{questions}

\end{document}

Yields undefined control sequence for \choice.

Tried this, and this.

Grade table add points error in exam class

When assigning points to both the question AND the parts of that question, gradetable generation displays the points for that question twice as much the correct value as it adds BOTH the points for question AND the parts therein.