<p>I’m taking the A exam, and I am pretty darn confident with the Barrons MC questions. I usually miss 3-7 out of those, but the free response always throws me for a loop. When I look at the answers I understand it and am able to work backwards with ease, but the wording of the FR problems always gives me trouble.</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>Does anyone have the audit?</p>
<p>Oh man, test tomorrow! Last minute cram session starts… now!</p>
<p>how u cramming?</p>
<p>Just going through all the barron’s book questions again, refreshing on trouble spots in my textbook, using that georgia tech practice site thingy.</p>
<p>Hey does anyone know if we’re allowed to use pencil on the free response? Write code in pen sounds kinda like a pain…</p>
<p>I think we have to use pen on free response.</p>
<p>By the way, do you really need to have a Barron’s book to have any hope of getting a 5? I didn’t get one (there were like none in my whole area), but I feel pretty confident about free response (not so much on multiple choice).</p>
<p>i just took the barrons test on the comp and got 11 points?? lol it obviously graded the free response rong but seriously i thought i did better? ■■■ the computer one seems to be especially hard.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if using Java not from the subset on FRQ will dock your score?</p>
<p>I’m halfway decent at actually coding, but since our teacher never told us stuff WASNT going to be on the test, I became more comfortable with non-subset stuff (my reliance on iterators and switches).</p>
<p>For Lol’s:</p>
<p>Official Practice Test Score-35/40
Barrons Practice Test Score- 22/40</p>
<p>:O</p>
<p>well, iterators ARE in the subset… and i really doubt they’d ask something on AB that involves switch statements.</p>
<p>Iterators are AB only. I never could figure out how to traverse an ArrayList without one, so I just use them =\ instead of the “xxxx : xxxx notation”</p>
<p>really? lol. just use a for loop or a for-each loop. like,</p>
<p>ArrayList<awesome> list = new ArrayList<awesome>();
// add stuff to the list
for (Awesome awe : list)
{
// w/e
}
for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
{
// w/e
}</awesome></awesome></p>
<p>I was just wondering if we used non-subset methods if it would take from our score…And what is this reference sheet? Is that like the gigantic appendix at the back of the Practice Exam?</p>
<p>I’ve been having second thoughts about taking the Comp Sci AB exam. One the day of the test, do you decide to take either the A or AB exam? Or are you stuck?</p>
<p>from what my teacher told me, it’s alright to use things that aren’t in the subset. however, you can’t just make up a random class and say it does something (like the Awesome class, which apparently has methods to solve any problem, lol). and yeah, you can google the appendix to see what’s in it. it’s really neat (i was looking at it last week).</p>
<p>@ Compwiz- You’re stuck</p>
<p>@ Ludi-I Understand that the format is for(ObjectType “awe?” : AList Name)
But What is the awe part of the for-loop you just wrote?</p>
<p>SFDP,</p>
<p>Wow…After reading the appendix I think this test is going to be like having training wheels! Thx for lifting the weight off my shoulders Ludi.</p>
<p>It’s like this:</p>
<p>for (ObjectType variableName : list)</p>
<p>that’s the same as saying</p>
<p>for each object variableName of type ObjectType in the reference to some type of list (arraylist… well, that’s the only one you’d know for A I think), do these things. so,</p>
<p>for (Awesome awe : list) is “for each object awe (which becomes a reference variable for all the objects as the for-each loop iterates through the list) of type Awesome in ArrayList list, do these things:”</p>
<p>do you sorta get it? it’s naming every object “awe.” you could put anything. Just make sure that when you use it, you don’t edit the size of the list using add or remove (it’s just like using an iterator). also, a question might try to trick you by putting an index reference (like in a regular for loop, int i = 0, etc.). there are no index references.</p>
<p>Ok actually that makes a lot of sense. Is the variableName for the for loop independent of the rest of your program (is it used again after Awesome awe : list?)?</p>
<p>for (String x : int array){
x = x + “hi”;}</p>
<p>^i dunno. Basically that translates to something like: for every String x in array, do the following { }. In this case, for every string in array, append hi.</p>
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