College Board Quiz Notes

Common Occurances

  • Arrows are used to assign values to variables
  • Its not all text, its also word problems
  • A lot of fill in the blanks for missing code

Questions to Review

Question 12

Question 12

  • Very hard Question
  • It talked about a pattern and predict what will happen in the future
  • I wrote down the pattern but didn’t recognize much
  • Pretty hard problem to get correct if it was on the real exam

Question 22

Question 22

  • This question confused me because of the way it asked it
  • Im assuming it only wants to return the counter value if it is greater than the total amount of days of the month
  • The comparison operator satisfies this as it will only return the value of counter if it is greater than half of the total

Question 33

Question 22

  • This question seems hard and time-consuming
  • However, it is very simple if you look at how the algorithm ends
    • The algorithm ends if include is either true or false
      • This means that the algorithm has an or statement because one of the statements can be true or false

Example 4

Example 7

  • The main focus of this question is the MOD
  • MOD means modulo which will return the remainder of the divison of two numbers
  • So if they’re trying to calculate every 10th purchase, use modulo because if the purcahse is the 10th, it will return a remainder of 0 when divided by 10

Example 5

Example 8

  • This question was kind of tedious
  • It was more of a guess and check
  • I took two numbers, 50 and 35, and ran through every answer. Answer C was the most reasonable

Example 6

Example 9

  • I had to look up the answer for this question
  • I don’t know anything about bits
  • After researching, 4 bits means the range is 2^4 so 16. 10+7 is 17 so it is outside the range

Example 7

Example 10

  • Definitely got this question wrong
  • Searched up what a symmetric encryption is:
    • One secret key is used to encrypt and decrypt data
  • Correct answer is FInn and Gwen because they both use the same key to send and return data

Example 8

Example 11

  • This question is trial and error
  • Take 2 as the base and find the closest power to 200, which is 8

Types of Questions

  • A lot of the hard questions are because they ask it in a deceiving/indirect way.
  • They ask:
    • Pick the BEST possible answer
    • Multiple choices like I and II, only I, I and II and III, or just III.
    • The other answers in multiple choice are similar but switched in some sort of way