So I just took the test and since I can’t mention the questions until 2 days after, I just wanted to ask you all. Did you guys think the test was hard? I thought the multiple choice was fairly easy and at most I got 5-7 wrong but the free response killed me…I was aiming for a 4 or 5 but I seriously think I might get a 3…the free response was so hard how did u guys think it was??
@Steve123234 I doubt it. According to wiki 24.4% of people got a 5 last year - I suspect they’ll make the curve harsher this year.
I think the questions weren’t necessarily hard (once you figure out what it wants it’s straightforward like previous years) but they were really wordy.
I don’t think we can but if I can get one point for each problem I think I can get a 4 because I can get at least 13-16 points
@piedmontasardinia idk this years was really difficult… I’m pretty sure I did a little well on the first prob, and okay and the second one, but if I get partial credit on the third and fourth problems and I got a 33-35/40 on the Mc, can I still get a 4?
The annoying part is that I knew how to solve all of them I just wasn’t granted extra time by college board to write my answers down 
The MC wasn’t too hard it was pretty easy compared to other tests hope I do well in that. Did bad in free response I wrote down a lot of stuff like for loops etc…will that get me points? Cause I hope I didn’t write too much where I get minor deductions etc like perhaps if I call a method…and bs(inside the parameter) will I miss a lot of points? Hoping just to pass
@fidtherid Certainly writing something gives you a chance at earning points. But at some level, the code you write has to actually make progress towards solving the problem.
Wow. Seems like a LOT of people didn’t do so hot on the FRQs. Having taken it last year, they were way worse this year. I literally didn’t finish half of them. Not good at all. I don’t know how, but if I somehow manage to pull a 3 from my MC I’ll be very happy.
This year, the multiple choice was a complete joke. I almost started laughing while I was taking the test. It was literally so easy, I probably got well over a 5 in that respect.
However, the free response was when it hit the fan. Of course, the college board had to be as ambiguous as possible, at the expense of the wellbeing of the students. Right before turning it in, I noticed that I had done one of the questions completely wrong.
Anyone remember choosing compile time error as the answer for one of the mc questions?(hope this wasn’t too specific)
As for the last question, I chose both 1 and 3 would work, eh.
Just don’t understand the Collegeboard’s logic. The time for multiple choice was increased by fifteen minutes and the time for free response questions was decreased by fifteen minutes. Yes, the multiple choice was a little easier than last year’s exam. But, I don’t think that it was easy enough to outweigh the difficulty of the frq. Plus, I think if the fifteen minutes had not been decreased for frq’s most people would have had a realistic chance of finishing.
I agree I wish I had more time on fqs because I took every years free response test and they were easy and straight forward with you knowing what to do, this one was very limited time with a lot of words to read and long code and a lot of it was hard to make up. Idek I hope I pass this test so it doesn’t all go to waste…when will the questions come out?
Hey for when we call methods…I was looking at the scoring guidelines and like it says if you put method(a) instead of a.getmethod() you get a major deduction…what happens if the method has parameters or something you know? Aren’t you supposed to use the first one then like y= method(I) or something
Sorry guys last question haha. Can’t go into specifics but say we make a variable in the constructor right? Can we keep using that name in the methods?
Like if there is a getmethod
I always call methods using the syntax boolean x = check(a,b) where check is the function/method. It works in Java, right? Or do I lose points for this as well?
@fidtherid
I’m not sure what you’re asking in the first question. In the first, a is a parameter and in the second a is the name of an object. You can call the method without the object specification (the first) when the method is within the same class. If not, you have to put the name of the object.
Which question was this? What I think is that the method is part of the a object, and people tried passing it to the method to do stuff with the instance variables instead of calling the method inside of the object where the instance variables are already manipulated in its body.
Second question: if the variable is made in the constructor and not assigned to any instance variable in the constructor, then the data in the variable you made is garbage collected once control leaves the constructor. The name you would have to use in other methods would be the name of the instance variable that holds the data, assuming you assigned the data from the variable to an instance variable.
Also, whenever there are nested if-statements, does the else statement always modify the nearest if-statement regardless of brackets?
Well there was this question,can’t go into specifics obviously with like some methods right? I know in vaue but be real with me haha. I initialized the variable and then there was a question dealing with it…and if I was to call it do I use the accessor method or just the name? Just asking
Cause I realized I think to use accessor methods you have to have an object the the dot operator right? But in this case there was no object or whatever like in a.getHelp, there was no a but why would they put that method there then