Survey posted 2000-07-16 05:35 by Nick Disabato.

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I said 4 even though technically it's about 3. I just took the AP CS test for the heck of it, and I only got a 2. :-(

What all was on the AP CS?

I forget. It's been well over a year since I took it. Some linked list stuff, binary trees, Big O, the usual. Not that it was hard. I just didn't have enough time to finish. I had to try to come up with the code all by myself in the small time allotted.

This year there was a lot on Big-O, hash tables, and linked list/binary trees, and we were not tought either of the former. I can say right now that I believe asm coding saved me on the test, especially the free response, because there was a part with using apstack and apqueue, which was never even mentioned in our class.

I took the AP CS II test and got a 4, which surprised me because about half the stuff on it was not taught in my class.

Anyone else find that they had to teach themself a new technique/topic during the test?

-Cullen Sauls

The CS AP is a load of BS. The syntax is all wrong, and having to use their custom classes is hell. I taught myself all of the AP syntax on that test, using the appendices. It was the only AP test i took, as I was a sophomore (going on to being a junior now). What's with all this APQEUEU and APSTACK crap? Anyway, I managed to get a 5 anyhow.

imho, the exam should be over standard C++ and not their custom classes.

I voted the first 3! :) heheh
I think they should give you extra points if you have to take the AP tests a few days after you tear all the tendons out of the thumb on your writing hand. damn freak baseball accidents. made the test take forever, and i practically didn't even answer a single question on the free response because of it.

i took calculus and statistics, and got a 5 and a 4. yesss, i get to skip both courses in college, which are both required in my computer engineering major. too bad i didnt get the scores until after i had to sign up for classes. now i have to go through the trouble of dropping calc 1 and adding calc 2.

yeah, i have to do the same thing, but i get credit hours for calc 1 even thought i don't take it! haha!

Why are AP scores released _after_ you have to sign up for classes?

When I started college a year ago, I had my scores in plenty of time.

There aren't many responses yet, but it looks like the average is about 4. Do you think that this, on a calculator freak site (I'm PROUD to be a calc-freak) is a random sampling of Americans? Don't we wish...

13% of the nation gets a 5 on any given AP test. It's set up as a bell curve, so regardless of how intelligent the general populace is, only 13% will get 5's.

Diabolical, eh?

--BlueCalx

I don't think that's correct, I think if in any given year everyone did good on a certain test then everyone would get at least a 3 or 4.

Nah, if that were true we'd get results of maybe 10% 5's (calculator geeks) and 90% "I won't ever take AP's" (lamahs who playx0rz gam3z in class)

and maybe a "1" for nick, of course (is it 13% 1's, too?)

No, I lied and put 5.
I WOULD give you the URL to the scan of my AP score grade sheet, but nickd.org is down due in part to Dan1son's lack of presence.

--BlueCalx

PS: It's http://nickd.org/log/mmmm-apscores.jpg when the servers get back up.

Wow, I wish my school had that many AP classes! Over here in small-town land, we've got one (1) AP class, AP Calculus. I took it, got a B, and now I know I got a 5 on the test (Calc AB, should have taken BC) so I can make my teacher change the B to an A! Ha Ha Ha!

P.S. Congrats, Nick. Those are scores to be proud of, even if they're only a little above average here in geekland!

I go to a small school (Milan High School,Milan Indiana) also, so small in fact, they offer NO AP courses. I did take three dual-credit college courses, my senior year (the first year they were ever offered), though. They don't have any test like an AP test. But I did get A's in all the classes and on all the exams!

I go to a big school with small intelligence. We have 9 AP courses Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Calculus AB&BC, Bio - farce -, US History, Euro-History, and English. These are the only classes you are guaranteed to get due to on average there are only 20 kids who sign up for any given class, most of the time it is the same 20 kids, I'm one of them next year!

You'd think so, but I remember my AP Psychology teacher mentioning that like 60% of students got 4's or 5's on it last year. It's still a bell curve, but I'm pretty sure it can be skewed depending on the overall performance that year.

That's a retarted system. The idea of AP isn't to show how smart you compared to everyone else; it's suppose to show whether you've adequately mastered the subject to not take it in college. Using a bell curve was a dumb idea.

Straight 5's (on 8 tests) (yeah!):
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Euro History - 5 (first AP test)
Stats - 5 (lame)
US History - 5
Calc BC - 5 (with AB subscore 5)
English Language - 5
Phys C Mech & EM - 5
US Government - 5
Latin Lit - 5 (weird)

Congratulations. I know of no one else who could get straight fives on 8 tests (but I came very close -- 6 5's and a 3)

I know of noone either
my lone score ever was this year--a 3 in APEH
that puts me on track for your record, though

"Do you think that this, on a calculator freak site....is a random sampling of Americans?"

Of course not!

But it more accurately represents the population than the "What is your gender?" survey.