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Assessment Dates
Assessment Dates
Performance Task Submission Deadline
Performance Task Submission Deadline
Tue, Apr 30, 202411:59 PM ET
This is the deadline for students to complete all required components of the Create Performance Task and submit as final in the AP Digital Portfolio.
AP Computer Science Principles End-of-Course Exam
AP Computer Science Principles End-of-Course Exam
Wed, May 15, 202412 PM Local
TOTAL Exam = 3 Hours
TOTAL Exam = 3 Hours
Section I: End-of-Course Multiple-Choice Exam
70 multiple-choice questions | 120 minutes | 70% of score | 4 answer options
57 single-select multiple-choice
5 single-select with reading passage about a computing innovation
8 multiple-select multiple-choice: select 2 answers
Section II: Create Performance Task and Written Response
30% of score
Create performance task program code, video, and student-authored Personalized Project Reference | 9 hours in-class | 10% of score
2 written response questions | 60 minutes end-of-course exam | 20% of score
NEW FOR 2024
NEW FOR 2024
The Create performance task for 2023-24 will still consist of three components—program code, video, and instead of the written response, a student-authored Personalized Project Reference containing screen captures of their list and procedure. Students are required to spend at least 9 hours of in-class time developing their program code, video, and Personalized Project Reference. Each of these three components need to be submitted as final in the AP Digital Portfolio by April 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET. Components that are not submitted as final will not be sent for scoring. Additionally, if students do not submit their Personalized Project Reference by the above deadline on the AP Digital Portfolio, they will not have this resource available on exam day to complete their written response section.
Students are required to complete at least 9 hours of in-class work on their program code, video, and Personalized Project Reference.
Students are required to complete at least 9 hours of in-class work on their program code, video, and Personalized Project Reference.
For the end-of-course exam, students will have two hours to complete the multiple-choice section of the exam, and one hour to respond to two questions related to the code in their Personalized Project Reference.
The two questions include four distinct prompts:
The two questions include four distinct prompts:
Written Response 1
Written Response 2(a)
Written Response 2(b)
Written Response 2(c).
Students will have access to their Personalized Project Reference while responding to these prompts.
Each written response corresponds to one of four categories:
Each written response corresponds to one of four categories:
Written Response 1: Program Design, Function, and Purpose;
Written Response 2(a): Algorithm Development
Written Response 2(b): Errors and Testing
Written Response 2(c): Data and Procedural Abstraction.
The specific prompts will vary across the different versions of the exam
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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