Holycrap, why is the AP Computer Science curve so freakishly low?

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<p>You need a 32/40 on the MC, 80%, and a mean average of 7 out of 9 for the four FRQ questions.</p>

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<p>?? what do you mean</p>

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<p>maybe, all the nerds take APCS…</p>

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<p>If you look at score statistics about 25% get 5s and 25% get 4s. So don’t worry, just stay confident, write pseudocode for FRQs and you’ll do great.</p>

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<p>For the same reason the Chinese curve is so rough. People that take the exam generally know what they’re doing perfectly.</p>

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<p>That’s pretty high for an AP test…darn</p>

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<p>Because it is a very easy, straightforward exam. Also, it only covers what is supposed to be a semester of a college course, but is typically taught for a whole year in high school.</p>

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<p>^^^ that’s true for many exams though. </p>

<p>Us gov is a 1 semester college course, but you get 5’s in the ~10% range.</p>

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<p>If you went through all the material, wrote your own programs, maybe practiced a little out of class, had a decent teacher and a good curriculum then you will do fine.
My advice to you would be to make sure that you know everything that’s on the AP curriculum sheet (on APcentral). Your teacher might have forgotten to mention something crucial like String class methods (substring(int), substring(int,int), indexOf(int)), etc. </p>

<p>Oh and also, if you don’t know how to convert between bases, learn how to do it right now.</p>