nstanger
commented
11 years ago Presumably all questions inside such a group of questions will be worth the same number of marks, otherwise the total calculation won’t make any sense.
Note that we don’t really want to disable all marks totalling within such a group, but rather just the totalling at the level that the group starts. That is, if we have a group of three question environments, then marks totalling should be disabled for the question environments, but not for any subquestion or subsubquestion environments contained within.
Options:
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questiongroupenvironment that can be used at any level of question nesting and disables marks totalling at that level until the environment closes. Marks totalling would be done at the level of the group instead. One of the arguments would be the message to print (e.g., “Answer any two questions.”). While this could be applied at any level of question nesting, it seems fairly unlikely that anyone would actually want to apply this to anything lower than aquestionenvironment. - It seems likely that a natural way of grouping such questions will be in a section, so perhaps an optional argument to
\examsectionthat disables top-level marks totalling? Or a variant form of\examsection(\examsection*)? This seems like it would be the most effective (and easy!) way to implement this feature. We can’t sensibly standardise the instructions for answering questions, but\examsectionat least already has an argument for specifying section instructions. - A
\disablemarksmacro (and corresponding\enablemarks) that disables (enables) marks totalling at the current level. This doesn’t seem like it’ll be very flexible or general.
Marks totalling currently doesn’t work with sections where not all questions are to be answered (e.g., “Answer any 2 questions”). At the end of the section it totals up all the questions, when in fact the total should be less.
A workaround is to reset the counter to the correct total after the last question in the section.