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Im trying to get a table added to my exam tex file that shows the grade earned based on all possible amounts of scorable points.

I am running intwo two issues:

  1. The amount of \numpoints of the {exam} class should be the amount of loops of the table (after all: points scored will be between 0 and the max amount of points). I cannot use the \numpoints command that is builtin {exam} documentclass in the forloop however without getting errors. (In the MWE I manually entered the \numpoints amount)

  2. I cannot use for loop to generate lines of the table.

\documentclass[addpoints,answers]{exam}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage{xfp}

%Workaround for not being able to use exam's builtin \numpoints in the formula (bonus points for workaround)


\newcommand{\manualpoints}{10}


\begin{document}
\begin{questions}
\question[2] A Question
\question[2] A Question
\question[2] A Question
\question[2] A Question
\question[2] A Question
%nb. 10 points earnable
\end{questions}


\foreach \n in {0,...,12 }{ \n \quad \quad  \pgfmathparse{2*\n + \manualpoints }\pgfmathresult  \par } 
\hfill \break
 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\textbf{score}&\textbf{Grade}\
the above loop & in this table
\end{tabular}


\end{document}
Zr.Ms. Bruinvis
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  • Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. – Community Jan 21 '22 at 11:49
  • Welcome to TeX.SE. It is not clear exactly what you want to do. A solution would be to conditionally build the table contents before the actual tabular. It would be helpful if you composed a MWE including \documentclass and the appropriate packages that provides a small mock up of what you desire. – Peter Grill Jan 21 '22 at 17:36

1 Answers1

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Here is an example of building up a table where the number of rows is variable and the entry in the row is computed via the \Formula macro defined as

#1*\NWeight/\Nunpoints

where #1 is the row number. This yields:

enter image description here

References:

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{booktabs}

%% This is based on:
%%     https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/165153/4301
%%
\makeatletter
    \newcommand{@MyTempTableTokens}{}%
    \newtoks@tabtoks
    %%% assignments to @tabtoks must be global, because they are done in \foreach
    \newcommand\AddTableTokens[1]{\global@tabtoks\expandafter{\the@tabtoks#1}}
    \newcommand\eAddTableTokens[1]{% 
        %% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/175573/4301
        \protected@edef@MyTempTableTokens{#1}%
        \expandafter\AddTableTokens\expandafter{@MyTempTableTokens}%
    }
    %%% variable should always be operated on either always locally or always globally
    \newcommand\ResetTableTokens{\global@tabtoks{}}
    \newcommand*\PrintTableTokens{\the@tabtoks}
\makeatother


\newcommand{\NWeight}{1.7}
\newcommand{\Nunpoints}{10}
\newcommand{\Formula}[1]{%
    \pgfmathparse{#1\NWeight/\Nunpoints}
    \pgfmathprintnumber[fixed, precision=2, fixed zerofill]{\pgfmathresult}%
}


\begin{document}
    % Build Required Table
    \ResetTableTokens%
    \foreach \Entry in {1,...,\Nunpoints} {%
        \eAddTableTokens{\Entry & \noexpand\Formula{\Entry} \}%
    }%
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
        \toprule
        $n$ & Value \
        \cmidrule(r){1-1}
        \cmidrule(l){2-2}
        \PrintTableTokens
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}%
\end{document}
Peter Grill
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  • Thanks a ton peter, exactly what I was looking for. The only challenge I have left is if I can use the exam class' \numpoints for the amount of loops without manually filling the amount in a \newcommand. – Zr.Ms. Bruinvis Jan 21 '22 at 18:40
  • Your welcome. That change should be easily doable. If you get stuck please post a new question on how to get that value directly. – Peter Grill Jan 21 '22 at 18:59