***AP Computer Science A 2015-2016 Thread***

No “a”

Oh crap…for the scoring guidelines if we keep making the same mistake over and over again do they repeatedly take off points? Cause I don’t think in one the the questions you were supposed to use the instance variables %-( but use other methods to call it or some sort not to get into the specifics just vaguely say…oh god

@manohar123 CollegeBoard had been hearing reports for years that “most” students felt rushed during the MC section and had plenty of time to spare during the FRQ section. Shifting 15 minutes from the FRQ to the MC section seemed like an easy way to address that issue without requiring much of a change to the exam administration.

@skstanford yes i remember that question. (trying not to be so specific) but some of my classmates got 4/4 as their answer, but me and some other guys got compile time error. Im pretty sure it was the compile time error tho…

@skstanford and im not trying to be specific, but for one of the questions half of my class got ipce, and i got ipee…im not saying the question so thats okay right? im pretty sure its ippe but i might have done something wrong…what did you get???

@Steve123234 Yeah, same here, haha. Lots of the people in the exam hall I was in got Ipce, but I too got Ippe, pretty sure it is Ippe ( because 2,1,1,0) had a double repetition of 1.

@skstanford yeah i just hope I really get a 4…I mean I just checked the uc colleges and most of them accept 3 as college credit but I really would want to get a 4…

Guys i have one more question sorry. Say we get a method for part a and we use a private variable constantly for the method that was outside the class. I know its a major deduction, but say if we do it 3 times, is it 3 points taken off or still 1 point for part a.

@skstanford I just hope college board realizes how harder this was than last years, and actually lower the scale so we can have a higher chance of getting 4s and 5s…

@Steve123234 Yeah, I don’t think I’d be able to get more than 60/80, and that’s if they are not strict on the FRQs and understand what I wrote lol. If that can’t hit a 5 on their curve , eh, whatever. Self studied for like 1-2 weeks for it.

@skstanford

I got ipce because you remove the letter from the word once you choose it.

@bobthebuilder13 Same here with regards to ipce because each letter is removed after it’s used.

@taw1020 Else always modifies the if-statement associated with the bracket immediately before it. If you put an else on the out-most if statement, all the other if-statements nested inside the outer one will be regarded as a straightforward if-statement (i.e. not an if-else).

if(condition1)
{
. . . . . if(condition2)
. . . . . {
. . . . . . . . . . if(condition3) { } //no else statement associated with condition3
. . . . . } else {
. . . . . //runs if condition 2 is false
. . . . . }
} else {
// runs if condition1 is false
}

When the frq comes out tmrw will the point scoring thing come out too? I want to estimate how many points i got for each problem by seeing how the points were distributed

Can somebody please answer my question? :-SS

As far as I can remember , you weren’t removing letters from the original string(you weren’t altering it at all), yo were only removing numbers from the integer list (2,1,1,0) , and you were storing the letter in that position in a new string. The actual string remained unaltered. @bobthebuilder13 @ssilnaadke

No. That comes out late July/early August.

@skstanford Yep. From what I remember (not much lol), I think you’re right.

@skstanford I think I got ippe, was that right? I forget the question alreadylol

@Meteoric I got ippe too but it seems like a lot of people got ipce. I’m pretty sure ippe is correct but you never know lol