Create a name box on an exam

Question

Is there an easy way to put a box in the upper right corner asking for student name/number on the first page? Is there something analogous to defining the location of something on a web-page in terms of absolute positions?

I need the following criteria to be met:

Does not use the exam class
Puts the box inside of the margin (i.e. Does not move the title down/get in the way)

see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49822/controlling-the-exact-position-of-objects-on-a-page/49823#49823 — David Carlisle, Jun 26 '12 at 21:44
an example here http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/exam-sheet/ — rpapa, Jun 26 '12 at 21:54

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '17 at 22:18

Thanks to @DavidCarlisle for the link in the original comments which led me to his answer here, where I found the following trick:

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}

\begin{document}

\title{Quiz Two}
\author{Batman}
\date{}
\maketitle

\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(200,200){
\begin{tabular}{|r|c|}
\hline
Name: & \hspace{5cm} \\
\hline
Student Number: & ~ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{picture}


\end{document}

The position of the box is controlled by changing the numbers in the \put command.

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 13 '17 at 15:16

3

A complete example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
 \thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
    \node[below left] (coin)  at (current page.north east)
        {\begin{tabular}{l p{3cm}}
 Last Name: & \hrule \\ 
 First Name: &\hrule  \\
 Date:& \hrule \\
\end{tabular}
        };
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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edited Jun 13 '17 at 15:16

barbara beeton

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answered Jun 27 '12 at 18:18

rpapa

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Create a name box on an exam

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