<p>what did you guys get for the sorting one w/ what will the array be after the third pass?
and the number of comparisons</p>
<p>I heard teachers get the student’s FRQ…</p>
<p>^^Is that true because for the frq I bs’ed most of it cause im majoring in biology and I’m bad at the material anyways.</p>
<p>Example of what I wrote</p>
<p>if ( absent student exists) {
absentstudent++;
get() row get (column)
System.out.println(“Student in “row” “column” is absent)
System.out.println(There are “absentstudent” students absent”
}
}</p>
<p>^^^ACTUALLY thats all I wrote for that question lol</p>
<p>@AznSkyDragon Your teachers really shouldn’t get anything relating to your test other than your score (1-5).</p>
<p>Is that really what you wrote?</p>
<p>I don’t think teachers get the FRQs back …</p>
<p>Yes I wrote that…and probably other weird things for the other FRQ’s</p>
<p>+1 point for incrementing a counting variable…-1 point for not defining it</p>
<p>I self studied for this test and I was surprised at how hard the MC was. The FRQs were a piece of cake though. And I had no previous programming experience. Think I did well though.</p>
<p>wait… we had to write println on the frq? I don’t recall needing System.out.println </p>
<p>@spashkin Yeah, MC was pretty tedious even for those of us with tons of programming experience. Too much line-by-line crap.</p>
<p>no ur fine, there was never a time where you need print statments</p>
<p>AznSkyDragon trailblazer, writing java like no was ever was.</p>
<p>@AznSkyDragon literally a trailblazer like we’ve never seen </p>
<p>Anybody know if setting the Student name = null would work for Question 3 B? We were supposed to set the values in the two-dimensional array to null, but I’m not sure if having an array with null values is the same thing as a Student “initialized” to null…</p>
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Discussion about how we felt about the test. NOT ABOUT THE ACTUAL TEST.</p>
<p>@Masterball They take off points if you use System.out.println…</p>
<p>@violet1996 why would u lose points for printing? You are allowed to use it unless it asks u specifically to return a value</p>
<p>Bombed FRQ, I was unprepared though tbh. I am just going to retake it and have continuous studying. My AP Comp Sci class was very uninformative, but I can only blame myself for not thinking ahead and learning java during the year instead of 2 weeks before the test.</p>
<p>Oh well, till next year boys.</p>
<p>I/O isn’t an official part of the AP Java subset, in part because of all the different ways that Java is used in teaching environments. Printing a message when you’re not required to do so not only violates the description of the problem, it could cause a crash if the system wasn’t equipped to handle printing. That’s why using print() or println() is considered a “side effect” and is a major deduction.</p>
<p>I thought the frq was really easy and the mc was medium. I think i probably got a 5 or a 4. Also, for the last frq to see which prices were highest and second highest, what did you guys do. Some of my friends told me that they just used if statements to see which of the three values were greatest and second greatest. I did it in a really weird way, i put the prices of all three items in an array list and i used a forloop to find the max value. then i initialized that value to the largest value variable and used the remove method to remove that value from the list. Then i used another for loop to find the second biggest one and returned biggest + secondbiggest. Do they usually care how you go about things if you get the same answer?</p>
<p>@Howdyyall <a href=“https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/computer-science-a/ap-2012-computer-science-a-scoring-guidelines.pdf”>https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/computer-science-a/ap-2012-computer-science-a-scoring-guidelines.pdf</a></p>
<p>Look at the first thing under ‘1-point penalty’. It’s right there. </p>