What score do you think you will need for a 3. Last year i heard it was about a 40%, for an easy test. This year the frqs were impossible so could it be like a 35%.
let’s say we have a 2-d array, arr. What do you guys think the point deduction will be if i confuse arr[0].length and arr.length?
if i were correct, the rest of my answers would have made sense, but since i mixed it up, they do not. Idk if they’d get the idea of what I was intending to do or not 
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Anyone take the alternate exam today? I thought that the questions were much easier than the one posted on the Collegeboard…
I took it today and the MC questions were easy! So were the free response! I had been very worried because I barely reached the cutoff for a 5 on the Barrons practice exam but found out that the actual AP CS Exam is easier than barrons! The AP Exam’s free response’s prompt were a little hard to understand tho.
@bacon103 Yeah Barron’s is a killer, the questions on that are definetly harder than the actual exam, hoping for a 5!
To be honest, some of the problems were a bit hard to understand at first (like what was actually going on), but the coding was pretty easy. Not like the “create a crossword puzzle” abomination that the released 2016 exam had…
Folks, just a reminder … those of you who took the alternate exam aren’t allowed to discuss the contents of either part (FRQs or MCs). General discussion like “it was hard/easy” is fine, of course.
@homsar Confusing arr.length and arr[0].length will probably cost you a point, since you’re using the wrong dimension for the number of rows. But I don’t think it will cost more than one point.
how is the make-up test scored, do they curve it the same way as the regular test?
@jmh311 The test is scored with a different curve than the regular test because it is a different test. The curve is pretty similar to the regular test though.
@blue1artic is it also like the same percent of people gets 5’s, 4’s, 3’s, etc.
@jmh311 Yes, the intent is that the alternate exam should generate similar results to the regular exam.
hey, about how many points are deducted for mixing a method call? as in, saying a.method(b) when the correct way to call method is b.method(a)
@Cornbread1999 Most “simple” problems like that will end up being reflected as 1-point deductions in the rubric.
I have been coding for about 5 years know and I am competent in Java. I am using Edhesive to help review for next years AP CS exam. Any ideas about what test review book to get?
Also anyone taking AP CS Principles?
Why is @AP_Trevor waiting to post our percentages last?! Maybe they realized how badly they wrote this year’s frqs…The teachers finished grading the tests more than a week ago. That means CB’s spent all this time figuring out how they are going to “equate” the scores with other years.
Just tweeted:
2016 AP Computer Science A scores: 5: 20.7%; 4: 20.4%; 3: 23.2%; 2: 12.5%; 1: 23.2%.
There are more threes than in previous years. Those FRQs hurt a lot of people’s scores including mine!
For comparison, the 2015 numbers were: 5: 24.4%; 4: 24.6%; 3: 15.2%; 2: 7.2%: 1: 28.5%. So there’s a little bit of a redistribution from 5/4 down to 3. However, since 3 is generally seen as “passing”, that’s not a huge shift; the percentage of students getting a 3-5 on the exam was 64.3% this year, 64.2% last year.
Is the distribution the same for late-testers?
@jmh311 The specific distribution isn’t posted for the alternate exam; however, the intent is that the distribution should be “similar”.
i got a 5 for ap cs! did anyone else get their scores yet?
When you get a 3 on the test and only answer 4 parts on the FR for the whole thing.