ITL - Types of Questions (Lesson)

Question Techniques to Understand

Question Analysis

Now that we have programmed, handled infographics, and the basic constructs of the computer, let's examine what the College Board Advanced Placement Test is expecting you to know.  The test will expect you to apply your learning of computers, how to build a program and use the programming statements, as well as understand and apply the essential questions.

Question Types

In order to access this knowledge, the multiple choice questions will come in two forms.

Questions which require exactly one answer to be selected from four choices. Questions which require two answers to be selected from four choices.

General Techniques

Let's take a look at some techniques used to answer questions. 

Questions with Exactly One Answer

Exactly one answer questions may be given to you in two types.

  1. A single answer.
  2. A single answer grouping analysis.

The single answer question is your typical question. Let's try an example of each.

Questions with More than One Answer

A question that has more than one answer requires analysis of the complete question and all of the answers to choose the most appropriate answers from among the list of choices.  This is an analysis skill that shows consistency for a question.

Questions on Computing

Questions on programming are program language independent. By program independent College Board allows the course to be taught using any programming language.  College Board has created their own text and block language to ask questions.

The language that we used for Alice is object-oriented placed in a 3D environment.  It is important that you understand the text or block instructions from the College Board AP Computer Science Reference Sheet will be the constructs used on the test, not the exact language of Alice or any other programming language.  Interpretations of the general language will be important on the multiple choice section. The task section will be where you display your knowledge and depth of your understanding of the language of your class.

Let's look at a few examples of the College Board language.

Here are some basic ones. See if you can determine what they mean. 

Note:  Carefully take not of Example 3A in this review below.  This is a change in how Array indexing will be used on the College Board AP Exam using the College Board made up language.  College Board indexing will begin with the number 1, not zero.