I just took my AP CS and now I’m really perplexed on what to expect. I took a wild guess at 4 questions and a sensible guess at 2 questions in the MCQ section; I’m sure that I’ve got 95% of the remaining MCQs correct. In the free response questions, the programs have been written with minor errors including a incomplete sub question.
So how much should I expect? A 4 or a 5
If you got 95% of the MCQ’s correct you should be fine
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I took it as well. Those FRQ’s were impossible.
I think I did very well on all of those questions. However every question on this test was significantly more involved. I took two practice mc tests, and 4 practice FRQ tests.
All of the practice tests had way more questions where you could find an answer without following a for loop, or keeping tack of changing array contents, or recursive methods.
And dont get me started on the frq’s. On each of the practices I finished with 45-85 minutes of free time left, and I got maybe 1-3 points off from the rubric. However the solutions I used on these FRQ’s were much more involved and much longer then the practice ones.
The good news is that its curved, and curves exist so that you will get roughly the same score no-mater the difficulty of the test.
I was gone wrote the example for everything or system.out.println(answer)
They posted the frqs, so I can talk about them now. I swear, the first one with the complete class was so tedious that I was thrown off for the rest of the test. I got coherent stuff down on the page, but was crunched for time because of the amount of understanding I had to do. Therefore, I didn’t have time to check for “smaller” things, such as array out of bounds exceptions, and random detailed conceptual issues. I feel that I am DIRECTLY on the border between a 4 and a 5, and I have no idea what to think, since the multiple choice was incredibly easy.