I'm currently writing an exam and require specific indentation on the left to match the following:
I have been using exam class and have now sorted out the right margin and exam marks but my left indentation is not right. As you can see below, information after the question has been indented, as has the enumerate. Any ideas on how to fix this? I'm a bit of a novice!
It appears you want the part and subpart indentation to be equal. I arbitrarily chose \leftmargini.
\documentclass{exam} \usepackage{showframe}% MWE only, to show first margin \marksnotpoints \renewcommand{\questionlabel}{Question \thequestion.} \renewcommand{\questionshook}{\leftmargin=0pt% \labelwidth=-\labelsep} \renewcommand\partlabel{\hbox to \labelwidth{\alph{partno}.\hfil}} \renewcommand{\partshook}{\setlength{\leftmargin}{\leftmargini}% \setlength{\labelwidth}{\dimexpr \leftmargin-\labelsep}} \renewcommand\subpartlabel{\hbox to \labelwidth{\thesubpart.\hfil}} \renewcommand{\subpartshook}{\setlength{\leftmargin}{\leftmargini}% \setlength{\labelwidth}{\dimexpr \leftmargin-\labelsep}} \begin{document} \begin{questions} \question[4]\hfill This is the first question. \begin{parts} \part This is a part. \part \begin{subparts} \subpart This is a subpart. \subpart This is a periscope. \subpart This is a pair of diving planes. \end{subparts} \part It's sad to be apart. \end{parts} \end{questions} \end{document} 
questions etc. environments. They are based on itemize, but with lots of additions. Note that \question calls \item internally.