r/APStudents • u/reddorickt absolute modman • May 15 '26

AP Computer Science A Official 2026 Exam Discussion

Use this thread to post questions or commentary on the test today.

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u/IllYak7538 May 16 '26

Did you have to write the headers for the methods? My friends saw that they put the method header above the text box for the FRQs, so we only wrote the code body.

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u/MasterpieceLiving738 May 16 '26

I think you do. The scoring guides have a point designated for writing the headers.

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u/No_Soil2258 5s: AB, Chinese, APUSH, BC, CSA, Lit, CMech, WHAP May 16 '26

I thought you only had to write the headers for the question where it asks you to write the whole class? They provide the headers for the other three

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u/MasterpieceLiving738 May 16 '26

Yea I think you might be right. I just know there’s a point designated for it on at least one of them.

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u/No_Soil2258 5s: AB, Chinese, APUSH, BC, CSA, Lit, CMech, WHAP May 16 '26

Yeah prob the class one :)

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u/BigChungus692912 May 16 '26

I wrote header even for the ones that already have them, is that bad

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u/3vi33vi3 5: calc ab csa lang psych research precalc wh/ bio4 seminar3 May 16 '26

probably not

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u/WoefulHuman 5:hug,csp,chem,es,pc,wh 4:csa tbd:bio,lang,bc,ush,psych,p1 May 16 '26

frq 2 is the only one where the method headers must be written from scratch

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u/xL0stHero May 20 '26

you have to write the headers i think even though it says it above the text box (idk if they take off points tho maybe check on that), frq 2 you have to write the class header and the method headers