AP Computer Science Exam

[stupidenator]

coming up in a week or so, I will be taking the AP Computer Science A Exam. I'm getting a little nervous about it. Has anyone ever taken this? What did you think about it? Anything in particular that I should really study up on? I have a book on it that I'm looking over in class and my teacher gave us a copy of the Marine Biology Case Study code that is part of the test... I just want to know what to expect from someone who has taken it before. Thanks for any help in advance!

-Nick Nisi

[cscgal]

I took the AP comp sci exam quite some years ago in C++. I don't remember much about it because I was incredibly sick when I took it with a high fever. I came into school just to take the test and I had to take it quarantined in my own classroom. All I remember is that it covered passing between functions, classes, some pointers, and not anything much more in depth.

[server_crash]

I'm taking it too. I'm not worried about anything but the Marine Bio case study. I haven't even looked at it. :eek:

[stupidenator]

The marine bio case study doesn't seem too bad... I need to look at it a lot closer though

[stupidenator]

well, I just took the AP Computer Science A exam... It wasn't as hard as I had expected! :cool:

[server_crash]

Yeah me too. I thought it was kind of easy. I took a few practice exams, and they were much harder than the real thing.

[stupidenator]

Ya, I took a bunch of practice tests too and thought they were all harder than the real thing... but I did get a little hung up on the Marine Biology free response question... probably because I didn't study the methods as much as I should have. But I thought it was pretty cool that we got to use that big reference book on that.

[server_crash]

Ya, I took a bunch of practice tests too and thought they were all harder than the real thing... but I did get a little hung up on the Marine Biology free response question... probably because I didn't study the methods as much as I should have. But I thought it was pretty cool that we got to use that big reference book on that.

Same thing I got stuck on. I didn't read one page of the MBCS, so I thought I was screwed until I saw that little green book. But still, it didn't help me much!

[stupidenator]

Ya, even with the help of the reference book, I couldn't figure out how to correctly use the Location class...

[server_crash]

Ya, even with the help of the reference book, I couldn't figure out how to correctly use the Location class...

Yeah, I had some long drawn out solution I know was probably wrong, but that thing was tough.