2019 AP® Computer Science A Exam Results

National News | 28 Jun 2019

From @AP_Trevor, Jun 14, 2019:

Another record broken this year, this time by the AP Computer Science A teachers and students, achieving the highest scores yet in that subject. This is especially impressive since those teachers also provided access to ~5,000 more students this year.

I’ve never seen so many AP subjects increase performance in a single year. Remember that exam difficulty is statistically equated, students aren't forced into a curve, so when scores increase like this, it’s a reflection of good teaching and learning.

• The 2019 AP® Computer Science A scores: 5: 27%; 4: 22.1%; 3: 20.8%; 2: 11.8%; 1: 18.3%.
• A whopping 601 students, out of approximately 70,000 worldwide, earned all 80/80 points possible on this year’s AP® Computer Science A exam.
• AP® Computer Science A multiple-choice: students scored very well across every topic, but especially on programming fundamentals (of course) and on logic / software engineering / recursion questions.
• Many students scored exceptionally well on each of the 4 free-response questions. Nearly a third got 9/9 points on Q3 (arraylist processing – delimiters) and more than half earned 8-9 points on Q1 (methods & control – apcalendar)

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