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AP COMPUTER SCIENCE A STUDY DAY AGENDA
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– INTRO (30 mins) [8:30 – 9:00] 1A
– EXAM DATE
1B
– TRACKING PAGE: THINGS I NEED TO REVIEW Your teacher will print this page for you to keep track
of what you need to review. 1C
– CAMPEAU’S PAGE We will do a quick tour of the AP Exam Review page
on my website. 1D
– Q&A How is everybody feeling about the semester? Have you studied? Have you done any Java coding since semester 1? 1E
– JAVA QUICK REFERENCE Go over the Java
Quick Reference page to see what people need to know. It is included in the exam booklet (in 2022
anyway).
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– ACTIVITY – STARTER CODE ANALYSIS (30 mins) [9:00 – 9:15] In this brief activity, you will analyze some
simpler multiple choice questions to get you back into the Java programming
mode. Click here for the
worksheet. Click here for the
solutions.
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– ACTIVITY – STARTER PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS (30 mins) [9:15 – 9:45] In this activity, you will write a few programs that
should serve as a solid review of basics. Click here. Solutions are at the bottom of the page.
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– ACTIVITY – STARTER MC QUESTIONS (30 mins) [9:45 – 10:15] In this activity, you will go through some starter
level MC questions. Solutions are
provided on the page to help you be efficient.
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– ACTIVITY – FREE RESPONSE QUESTION [10:15 – 11:00] We will look at a past FR Question. Solutions are to be written on paper. Please write the start time at the top
right as you begin.
LUNCH
BREAK [11:00 – 11:50]
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– ACTIVITY – AP PRACTICE MC QUESTIONS [11:50 – 12:30] We will go over the 15 sample MC questions. The exam has 40 MC questions to be done in
90 minutes. So you get just over 2
minutes per question on average.
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– ACTIVITY – FREE RESPONSE QUESTION 2 [12:30 – 1:15] We will look at a past FR Question. Solutions are to be written on paper. Please write the start time at the top
right as you begin.
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– ACTIVITY – FREE RESPONSE QUESTION 3 [1:15 – 2:00] We will do one last FRQ question.
POSSIBLE
ACTIVITY – CSAWESOME SITE Check out the CSAwesome
site. Take a few minutes to look
at the ten units. Note down anything
that you want to review later. Notice that each unit includes practice multiple
choice questions that immediately give feedback to your answers – an
excellent resource. POSSIBLE
ACTIVITY – FINDING RESOURCES Everybody will take a few minutes and search for new
resources relating to the AP Computer Science A exam. Simply do a search and see what you find. POSSIBLE
ACTIVITY - REVIEW OF AP EXTRA SECTIONS Take a few minutes to look at each of the AP Extra
sections. Note any topic that you
might need to review. POSSIBLE
ACTIVITY – REVIEW OF CONCEPTS We will look at one of the topics that the group
would like to review such as multidimensional arrays, enhanced for loops,
array lists, recursion and object-oriented programming (instance variables,
constructors, methods, inheritance, interfaces). |
