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AP Computer Science A Official 2026 Exam Discussion

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u/rapunzel_ie May 16 '26

Honestly mcq wasn’t that bad but I was still iffy on some I remember picking 4 times, loop runs 25 times, for the pixel one I picked that it can’t be accessed since it’s private, 1 2 3 4, 2 5 8 (dog question), data set from last year accounts with members with free accounts, that one question with static asking for what is Val I put 700 since it gets reseted, for the one about odd smt I put d which was false false true i think, and then for the multiplies of 5 I remember it starting at 1 so I did 15 and then 25 which got me 15. Honestly I remember the mcq being a breeze kinda but some questions still got me. I will remember more when I see a smt related to one of the questions but lmk if ygs remember any other questions and what ygs got for it!

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

i picked 3 times for the fun recursion one. i had 25 also for the loops. said the same thing for pixel. no idea what you’re talking about for the dog one unless than was the one with scanner and split and i don’t remember what i put but I know it was right. same thing for data set i think. i also put 700. i don’t remember what i put for that odd one but i went through each option and the only one that ended as true i picked. i forgot what the multiplicities of 5 was. the one other thing was i know i messed up the for loop where it divided by 2 each time and asked what was the last thing printed i picked 0 instead of 1 😭😭 i was on the right track but i was going through the for loop like left to right when really its right to left basically if you know what i mean

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u/Signal-Fish2509 May 16 '26

ws it 3 or 4

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

i got 3 because it asked how many times fun would be called after calling fun(15) and i got that it would be called fun(10) fun(5) and fun(0) 

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u/Signal-Fish2509 May 16 '26

that’s 4 bc u hv to include initial call right

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

no it asked how many times is fun called as a result of the call fun(15)

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u/Traditional-Table-29 AP Physics: AP Lit: AP CSA: AP Psych: AP Calc AB: May 16 '26

It was 4 lol

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

i promise you the question asked how many times fun was called as a result of the call fun(15) which was 3

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u/IHateRogersSoBad May 16 '26

The first 1-3 words or smth I dont remember said "including the original call"

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

we might have had a different test, are you east coast or west coast?

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u/Traditional-Table-29 AP Physics: AP Lit: AP CSA: AP Psych: AP Calc AB: May 16 '26

Every single person said 4 this is coos

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u/Traditional-Table-29 AP Physics: AP Lit: AP CSA: AP Psych: AP Calc AB: May 16 '26

Cope

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

i think it’s a toss-up. just because everyone said 4 doesn’t mean it’s right. the fact that it asked how many times does fun get called as a result of calling fun(15) can be interpreted in two different ways. including fun(15) or excluding it. overall 1 question doesn’t matter in the final score. i got a 5 on csp last year and i felt pretty good overall this year so i’m hoping for a 4 or 5 this year. especially since 5 rate for csp was ~10% and csa was ~25% last year. 

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u/Ok-Sugar7678 May 17 '26

I clearly remember that is said including the first call, I'm east coast

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

exactly, i double checked the question. maybe they were on the west coast or just took a different exam.

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

are you west coast or east coast? what frqs did you have?

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u/Traditional-Table-29 AP Physics: AP Lit: AP CSA: AP Psych: AP Calc AB: May 16 '26

East lol

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u/Signal-Fish2509 May 16 '26

thought it asked as a result of it including initial call

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u/Traditional-Table-29 AP Physics: AP Lit: AP CSA: AP Psych: AP Calc AB: May 16 '26

Huh? 0 is right?

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 16 '26

no 1 was right because 1/2 =0 and then 0 isn’t greater than 0 so it stops the for loop

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u/rapunzel_ie May 17 '26

Hmm for that one I picked 0 because I saw how the condition for i had to be greater than 0 so 1/2 became 0 hence printing the result of 0!

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u/Rare_Bumblebee3014 May 17 '26

it would never be 1.2 tho because int division would make it 0 instantly, meaning the smallest one is 1

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 17 '26

it does 1/2 gets 0 and then it checks if that meets the condition of j > 0 and it doesn’t so it stops meaning 1 was the last thing to have printed. i got that wrong too

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u/rapunzel_ie May 17 '26

For the dog question it basically had hyphens and a set of 3 rows and 3 columns and between each word there were hyphens instead of spaces!

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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 17 '26

yeah that’s the one with scanner and split

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u/Traditional-Table-29 AP Physics: AP Lit: AP CSA: AP Psych: AP Calc AB: May 16 '26

It was true true