<p>@Driftingstar</p>
<p>I used those methods as well ;)</p>
<p>I’ll be surprised if we all used a similar algorithm to figure it out.</p>
<p>Am I allowed to ask “did anyone use ____ method of the Math class a million times in the FRQs”?</p>
<p>Like are we only not allowed to discuss the questions themselves? Or can we not discuss FRQs at ALL?</p>
<p>I’m dying to talk about them -_-</p>
<p>I think there was method called getOccupiedAdjacentLocations(Location loc) but it only returns 1 cell away…</p>
<p>I am dying to talk about these as well. But we can’t. :(</p>
<p>Did they say they’ll release the FRQ 2days after?</p>
<p>Yeah, that is how it works.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when they release the solutions?</p>
<p>Nested for loop?</p>
<p>meadow, yupyup
That’s what I did, though I think it’s more of a “dumb” way than something elegant</p>
<p>so the embargo on MC never ends? why?</p>
<p>They occasionally reuse old multiple choice questions on exams for subsequent years.</p>
<p>FRQ is multiplied by 1.11 not MC. Also, the curve will likely be lower this year since it’s a new test.</p>
<p>Hey, did anyone notice how similar the GW FRQ was to one of the critters we had to design in a part of the case study?</p>
<p>Hahaha, in the MC i got owned so hard… The FRQ’s were a breeze though. I didn’t know they gave me an api for gridworld. Thank god for that.</p>
<p>^ yah the mc was pretty hard didn’t do like 11 of them :(</p>
<p>frq was easy except for the last gridworld question</p>
<p>On the last gridworld q i wrote a ridiculously long answer because I thought I had come up with a shortcut that turned out to be really inelegant… but wtvr.</p>
<p>Do you guys know if they take off points for defining your own method? Like if I had one of my FRQ programs call another method that I made and then I write that method as well?</p>
<p>Not sure if they take off points for defining your own methods. They do take off points though if you don’t call one of the methods they provide esp. when it’ll make the program simpler.</p>
<p>I also had a page long answer for that last one…I can’t wait to see the answer 2 days after…</p>
<p>Take this from someone who talks to a lot of AP graders (my school is full of them). If you get 5/8 of the total accumulated score on most AP tests, you will get a 5. For a 4, you need 4/8, a 3 is 3/8 and so on. You may have to give or take a few percentage points depending on the curve of the test. I would never trust Barron’s because it inflates things, but it may be good to go by it to make sure that’s what you are getting.</p>
<p>The MC seemed fairly straightforward, with some tricks. I skipped a couple of questions, and I already know I got one wrong (just tried it in JCreator – that one was really tricky).</p>
<p>On the MC I noticed a few questions that I had definitely seen before, or slightly modified versions of them: definite proof that they re-use old questions.</p>
<p>The GridWorld FRQ was a little tricky, but pretty straightforward overall. For part (b) we had done something very similar in class several times before, so I knew how to set it up. All it took was some tweaking to meet the requirements of the question.</p>
<p>The other 3 questions were way too easy. I was surprised that none of the questions required… oops, better save that for Thursday :)</p>
<p>I had a page long answer as well. 3 for loops. 1 to circle through an arraylist of validadjacent locations within two spaces (nested for loop), 1 to assign another arraylist the locations of occupied valid locations, and I used 1 loop to get rid of duplicate locations and the original location.</p>
<p>Wait, so we can talk about the FRQs on Thursday and we get the answers to them as well?</p>