**Sem 2 Exam Study Guide**

The exam  is a cumulative exam that covers the entire course from the summer assignment until Unit 4 of the College Board's Course and Exam Description ([[https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-computer-science-a-course-and-exam-description.pdf?course=ap-computer-science-a|CED]]), 

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There will be some multiple choice questions worth 55% of your exam score, and 2 free-response questions which will be worth 45% of your exam score.

The seniors will take their exam on Thursday May 21 during block (B) after Graduation Practice in Room 101 (Mr Appel's room).  





Here are other study Guides with examples and Practice:

 
  -[[https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap26-frq-computer-science-a.pdf|2026 FRQs from the College Board]]
  -[[https://runestone.academy/| FRQ Packets 1, 2 and 3 at Runstone]] (CSAwesome2)
  -[[https://runestone.academy/|Chapter 7 and 8 Practice at Runestone]] (CSAwesome2)
  -[[https://mathorama.com/apcs2/AP-Computer-Science-A_Study-Guide.pdf|73 page Course Study Guide]]
  -[[https://www.simplestudies.org/groups/ap-computer-science-a|Simple Studies]]
  -[[https://www.programiz.com/java-programming|Programiz.com Java course]]
  -[[https://codingbat.com/java/AP-1]]


It is a good idea to review the Free Response questions from [[https://www.mathorama.com/wiki/doku.php?id=starter_code_for_old_ap_questions| past AP Exams]] and the Labs we have done throughout the year. There will be 45 minutes to answer 20 multiple choice questions, and 45 minutes to answer 2 free response questions.   (the exam category is worth 20% of your grade, and is the last chance to improve the Exam category.  Right now, your Qtr 3 Exam score is accounting for 20% of your grade). 

A good way to review the multiple choice is reviewing Questions from previous Progress checks at [[https://myap.collegeboard.org| AP Classroom]], and [[https://runestone.academy|Chapter 13 of Runestone SFHSJava]]

There are other FRQ questions in [[https://runestone.academy/ns/books/published/Java2021-SFHS/index.htmle|Chapter 14-15 of Java2021-SFHS]].  Don't forget that you don't need a computer to practice writing code at [[http://codingbat.cs.vt.edu/codingbat/java|javabat.com]] and do the challenges at [[https://app.programiz.pro/community-challenges/challenge/java-empty-square-sequence/info?ref=dscb|Programiz.pro]].


Some elegant solutions to OLD AP FRQ's are at [[http://www.skylit.com/beprepared/fr.html|Skylit]], the book publisher of our textbook. 

Good Luck!