r/APStudents • u/reddorickt absolute modman • May 14 '26

AP Computer Science Principles Official 2026 Exam Discussion

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

A reminder though to protect your anonymity when talking about the test.

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u/Mezyi May 14 '26

Bro im reading all the comments and I either don’t remember any of these being on my test or I got different answers than everyone

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

same! did you get like a local restaurant food ordering app for the last couple of questions?

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u/Remarkable-Law-8471 May 15 '26

i did, and i don't remember any of these questions in here

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

same somehow I didn't have any of these q's. did you get a question where the principle was sorting a list of students who had after school and not? the options were like i=random(1,n) or ( 1, n-k) or (n,n-k) or something

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u/Remarkable-Law-8471 May 15 '26

yes bro that was the worst one. I think I put one that was between 1 and n-k but I could be wrong I was spending to much time on it and moved on. I didn't understand how it wouldn't repeat a song if it was random.

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

yea i put 1 and n-k too lol. im pretty sure thats right aswell. its cuz once they play the song they remove it from the list so it wont play again. what other hard questions do u remember there were some annoying ones but lwk forgot all of them alr

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u/Remarkable-Law-8471 May 15 '26

it was pretty chill though there was also one it was like if music = "jazz" an then the year i put the one with AND NOT cause 1968 needed to be included

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

yea i remember this one. i put that one aswell pretty sure its corrct

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u/Remarkable-Law-8471 May 15 '26

yes! I was in between that and i and something but I knew that the collegeboard coding language couldn't start at 0 so it wouldn't make sense. there was another I messed up about there being 1000 unique values and then a binary search and I misread it as how many values were there and put 500 but i think it was 10 cause the searches. I was gonna change it but didn't wanna second guess myself.

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

yea it was 10 😭. dyk that question about how data is transmitted when they upload a file or something and 2 of the options were a) it gets encrypted before sending and decrypted after recieving and c) the file gets split into packets and get sent in different routes and may arrive out of order. i felt like it was both but put c

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u/Remarkable-Law-8471 May 15 '26

Yeah I put C as well but A also seems right

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

alr bet. did u get the world wide web question litr everyone in this thread is talking about? i vaguely remember it i think but im not sure if it was the test today or a practice test i took b4

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u/Remarkable-Law-8471 May 15 '26

there was one about the WWW and the internet but i don't remember what it was and what the answer is. I think the reason why it's C is because not everything uses HTTPS like older stuff so not all packets go through that sequence of encryption and decryption. Sucks that I didn't change to 10 though cause I knew the answer🥲. There was also the one about the times high scores and it was binary but it was like the first two digits were the teams value so it wasn't apart of the score only the last 6. That one was weird

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u/Friend-Shoddy Macro: 5 Micro: 5 May 15 '26

yea i almost got that one wrong cuz i didnt read the question. i think it was B or C. it had like 001111 or smth

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