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The first quarter exam will be Thursday October 11 8:23-9:53 In room 305. The AP Exam will be at noon, Friday May 17, 2019. The average of the two quarter exams is worth 20% of your grade. The first quarter exam is a cumulative exam that covers the summer assignment, and chapters 1 through 7 of the textbook. There will be multiple choice and free response questions. On the actual AP Exam, the multiple choice question pace is 2 minutes, 15 seconds each, and the free response questions pace is about 15 minutes each. Each portion (Multiple Choice and Free Response) is worth 50 percent.
It is a good idea to review your homework, the powerpoint slides (in Google Classroom), and the quiz questions posted at PlusPortals. The file is called “Qtr 1 Quiz Review Chapters 1-6”. Password for the PDF of the questions is the Franciscan virtue for this quarter! To check your work, go to Google Classroom or use game code **024682** on quizizz.com
Don't forget that you don't need a computer to practice writing code at https://codingbat.com/java. "Warm up" and "logic" are good categories to practice. You also may wish to try these practice free response quizzes from the past.
Things to watch out for:
- not initializing a field ( fields are private, to encapsulate)
- accidentally making a local variable instead of initializing a variable
- remember to make methods public, and don't forget to use () for the parameter list, even if there are none
- local variables are never public nor private
- dangling else statements (p 148)
- forgetting to have a method return something of the correct type
- not to add a System.out.print were no printing is requested (This can be 1 or 2 point 'Extraneous code that causes side effect' penalty on the AP Exam)
- using local variables that you don't declare ( also a AP scoring penalty)
- changing a value referenced by parameter or destroying data in a parameter (also a scoring penalty)
- return statement on a constructor, or a method that isn't supposed to return something (a 'void' method). This too has a AP scorning penalty)
Finally, please remember to get a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast! Good Luck!