<p>Well we have this great teacher(sarcasm); we are not even have way done with our textbook. My classmates and I believe we are f**ked. What can i do in order to learn this. The barrons book is more pages than we have covered this year so far. Just to let you know, we just started grid world. And just finished chapter 8 in our 22 chapter book. I need help fast. Thanks for any replies. </p>
<p>What percent right do you need to get a: 3, 4, 5 on average.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be worried. The AP compsci curriculum simply does not cover 22 chapters worth of stuff; any decent textbook is going to have a lot more than you need to know for the AP test.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks. That relieved me because i believe we have a good book because its new and looks well written.</p>
<p>Yeah. It doesn’t help that the AB exam was discontinued this year, so AP compsci now covers even less than it used to.</p>
<p>We are using a 19 chapter book and the curriculum only includes the first 8 chapters, which we’ve finished.</p>
<p>You’re doing fine. </p>
<p>2008 test</p>
<p>5 - 21.7%
4 - 21.7%
3 - 13.9%
2 - 9.0%
1 - 33.7%</p>
<p>It’s an easy test.</p>
<p>40% failure rate for APCS A and you think it’s an “easy test”? Especially that this year has 20% of the AB exam is IN the A test…</p>
<p>When I say 40% failure rate, consider that no college accepts a 2 for credit. And roughly 30% of the colleges accept a 3.</p>
<p>I’m assuming that the 40% has absolutely no clue what they were doing.</p>
<p>33% of people got a 1, and over 40% of people got a 5. That would seem to indicate that there’s just not much room to do mediocre; you either know it and do well or don’t know it and fail hard.</p>
<p>No, 40% passed, 50% did not, 40% tried, 40% did not, 10% just got unlucky.</p>
<p>My definition of failing the exam is having a score too low to be accepted at the college you are trying to get into.</p>
<p>It’s pretty much the same for the last ten years for the APCS A exam. Actually I’d say that if you scored a 1, 2, or 3, you’ve just wasted your cash. Very few colleges take a less than a four and most of them require a 5. So I would say that over 50% of the people who take the APCS A exam fail it.</p>
<p>For example, Arizona State University won’t give you credit if you score less than a 4, and they are pretty average for a CS program.</p>
<p>[ASU</a> AP Credit by Examination | Academic Catalog 2010-2011](<a href=“Credit by Examination | Academic Catalog”>Credit by Examination | Academic Catalog)</p>
<p>Amarkov - that’s an interesting observation. It’s always been that way. You either flunk it or do well on it. What was more interesting is that the tougher AB exam had a higher success rate.</p>
<p>JoeyBay - There’s an excellent chance that you have a teacher that has no clue what they are doing. I recently attended a large (over 500 people) AP conference for teachers. At the APCS room, about 60% of the teachers in there had NEVER PROGRAMMED A LINE OF CODE. They were expecting the instructor to teach them Java in four days. I’m not kidding, typical questions were “How do I make a loop to sum the numbers from 1 to x?”. The instructor simply face-palmed the entire time. I was upset because I spent $500 to attend this and was annoyed that he had to dumb down the class.</p>
<p>This would be comparable to an AP Calculus teacher asking how to complete the square or add like terms.</p>
<p>NewAccount - You are way above average! I bet your SAT’s are way high too! You’ll probably do fine. Just do a search on monster.com. There are gazillions of programming jobs for people like you.</p>