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LaTeX standards for 30 days to your IB Math exams

About the file structure

Each rectangle below corresponds to a .pdf file (which is the output when compiling that specific .tex file). The .tex files below (shown in the diagram) are the ones which are inputted into those .tex files mentioned in the rectangles. It is a simple file structure.

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How to create a new PILL

In case the folder for the specific question is not created yet, you may do so, by duplicating either the folder day-XX-aahl or day-XX-aasl (depending whether the exercise list is for HL or SL).

More about the commands

Whenever you see these writings such as "AA HL”, "Paper 1” and "Topic: Calculus”, these refer to the type of question being created. In this case, it is a Calculus question for the AA HL course in a Paper 1 (the students cannot use a calculator to solve). All of these standards are known by the student, so it is important that we communicate that with them.

All this (on the image to the left) translates to the code to the right:

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You may find these codes on the file subjects-topics-subtopics-names.tex inside the common-tex-files folder.

You'll also notice the total number of marks, and the mark per subquestion/item (in case of course there are subquestions/items).

Additional comments

Any comment found in the Goodnotes documents which is in orange is for you only, and should not be written in the final document (it is a comment to you only). Most likely that comment won't even exist, so you won't see anything written in yellow there.