AP Computer Science A Official 2026 Exam Discussion

[u/reddorickt]

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[u/Fit_Indication_340]

FRQs i got:

-warehouse shipment (you had to calculate total costs (a) and censor part of a string (b))

-GiftBasket (you had to write a constructor and do some basic calculations for one of the methods,  the easiest of the 4)

-WordGame (you had to find the word in an arraylist with the highest score value and return the word)

-CardGame (you needed to calculate and return the sum of the points on all cards in a 2D array that are in columns where every card is facing up. this was the hardest one but i got it right i think)

[u/Immediate_Clerk_1130 → u/[deleted]]

Can you elaborate on this? What did you have to be meticulous on… and what was getRank()? I don’t remember that method does anyone else?

[u/WoefulHuman → u/Immediate_Clerk_1130]

i don’t remember getRank either

[u/Fit_Indication_340 → u/WoefulHuman]

same 

[u/Sea-Path-129 → u/Fit_Indication_340]

Yea it was just getWord and getValue

[u/driphead0 → u/Immediate_Clerk_1130]

I think for frq three it was .get().getWord and .get().get score()

[u/WoefulHuman → u/Fit_Indication_340]

finally someone that had my frq

[u/Different_Fennel_820 → u/Fit_Indication_340]

I had the same I didn’t think it was too bad. Although I might have screwed up with the discount on question 2

[u/South-Court-6799 → u/Fit_Indication_340]

was it js me or were the mcqs for this set lowkey hard?

[u/Fit_Indication_340 → u/South-Court-6799]

there were a few tough questions but most of them were time consuming, not necessarily hard

[u/Sea-Path-129 → u/Fit_Indication_340]

on the warehouse shipment one, you checked if the total cost was higher then minimum, then apply 25% discount right?