Random Tests Combining Mathematica Package and Latex Compiler

Abstract

This paper presents a competent and useful way to elaborate random exams by using Mathematica and LATEX. With these two tools, the authors suggest how to generate, in an easy way, different PDF documents containing different models of exams. The main idea is to provide a support to professors who have to manage groups of large number of students that should take different exams along the term, or even though not being groups of numerous students, it may be useful when different models of exams want to be provided to the students. The underlying advantage in this paper is the use of the Mathematica package for this purpose in a simple way, similarly as it has been done with alternative software. We present in this paper, some models of exams produced in the context in which the authors work.