You are responsible for being familiar with the College Board AP Computer Science
Web site. While the exam is usually held in early May, it is never too early
to prepare for the exam by visiting the Web site and learning about the topics
and details of the exam. You should exhaustively explore the Web site on your
own.
The address for the College Board Advanced Placement Computer Science exam
is www.collegeboard.com/ap/students/compsci
- What is the total testing time for the AP Computer Science exam?
- According to the details given about the AP Computer Science C++ Subset,
what built-in types (i.e. data types) are A and AB Exam test-takers required
to be able to use?
- What is the name of the Case Study that is used as part of the AP Computer
Science curriculum?
- How many questions are in Section I (Multiple Choice) of the AP Exam?
- If you were to spend an equal amount of time on each multiple choice question
in Section I, how many minutes would you have per question? Give
your answer in the form of minutes and seconds (e.g. 3 mins, 15 seconds) not
as a decimal value (e.g. 3.25).
- How many questions are given on Section II (Free Response)
of the AP Exam?
- If you were to spend an equal amount of time on each free response question
in Section II, how many minutes would you have per question? Give your answer
in the form of minutes and seconds not as a decimal value.
- According to the 2001 Grade Distributions, how many students took the A
exam?
- What was the 2001 mean grade for all students who took the A exam? (By the
way, Wyo's means were 3.5, 4.4, 3.7, & 4.4 respectively for 1999-2002.)
- Is the goto statement part of the AP C++ Subset?
- According to the AP C++ Subset, what constants are you required to know
from the the <limits.h> header file?
- What is the name of the array that is used in the 2002 Computer Science
A Free Response question #1?
- What language will replace C++ in AP Computer Science courses next year?
- Give an example of a topic that is studied in more depth on AP Computer
Science AB (Wyomissing's Data Structures course) than it is in AP Computer
Science A (Wyomissing's C++ course)?