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In compiling a series of exams (between ~10 and ~20 different tests, each with four questions), I would hope to have a single document, and a single preamble, using the exam class, but each individual exam printed to a different output file, for ease of distribution.

I noted the question Variations of an exam where similar (but not identical) exam questions are addressed to different "groups" of people facing a particular version of the exam, where only a part of the question changes between the different groups, as well as Making exams with multiple-choice questions in scrambled versions but they don't focus on separation to different output files.

As a separate resource, I could call on a script to act on the .pdf of the entire set of exams, and using qpdf separate the file in N files, one per group. But this needs manual specification of which pages belong to which group. Not ideal. Perhaps this can be handled by an entirely separate package?

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  • Are these exams administered electronically? Otherwise you can (physically) print the whole pdf and give every student only the relevant pages of that printout. – Marijn Nov 05 '22 at 15:26
  • yes, I should ideally send the files to each student electronically. And they should only have their own exam, not that of the others. Otherwise I could have given them the whole pdf and ask to focus solely on their part. – massimopinto Nov 05 '22 at 15:35
  • PDFs can be split into single pages or whatever gathering of pages with external apps like ilovepdf.com. – SebGlav Nov 05 '22 at 15:38
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    each latex run can only make one pdf but you can easily have conditionals in the document so make different output sets on different runs – David Carlisle Nov 05 '22 at 16:53

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