How-tos

This exam turns off all the feedback options, so students know nothing about how they've done.

This question shows how to ask for a number in scientific notation, by asking for the significand and exponent separately and using a custom marking algorithm in the gap-fill part to put the two pieces together.

Answers not in standard form, i.e. with a significand not in $[1,10)$, are accepted but given partial marks.

A randomly generated list of numbers is shown to the student. They must tick every occurrence of the lowest number. The number of occurrences isn't always the same - sometimes the minimum is unique and sometimes it is repeated. The map function makes it easy to construct a marking matrix.

The student has to compute $a^b$ and $b^a$, then decide which of the two is bigger.

This question shows how to set up a custom marking matrix for the "choose one from a list" part, based on values used elsewhere in the question. It could use adaptive marking to use the student's incorrect values for the comparison, but doesn't at the moment.

A "match choices with answers" part where the student either gets all the marks or none. Any incorrect choice is penalised with a huge negative mark, so they end up with the minimum mark of 0.

A mathematical expression part whose answer is the product of two matrices, $X \times Y$.

By setting the "variable value generator" option for $X$ and $Y$ to produce random matrices, we can ensure that the order of the factors in the student's answer matters: $X \times Y \neq Y \times X$.