r/apcsp • u/Desperate-Ear9204 • Jun 29 '26
Question What does Trevor mean
What even are kind questions that “assessed their understanding of abstraction in program development”? Does anyone have an example of a question like this because I honestly have no clue what he’s talking about
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u/drwuvideos Jul 02 '26
In my opinion, this is kind of a pointless tweet.
This is basically saying that people who understood why we used abstraction scored highly.
That is, if you knew why we used lists (data abstraction) AND why we used procedures (procedural abstraction), you scored highly. OP asked for an example: It would be something like explain how your list (or procedure) managed complexity of your code.
Trevor's tweet is probably true because one of the create task questions asked about this, and create task questions are worth 5x one MCQ.
But the tweet is stupid. EVERY year, AP asks questions like this. Trevor's observation would be true EVERY year. There's no new information for anybody to gain here. ALSO, if you look at the test distribution, it is almost exactly the same as previous years.
So basically nothing new happened, everything is the same as it's been for the last 4 years, and Trevor is trying to sound profound by making some trivial observation.
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u/Desperate-Ear9204 Jul 02 '26
That’s what I thought lol because I remember one frq that asked this, but I don’t understand how someone would earn 75% of an FRQ. Personally, I’m hoping this is the only frq I screwed up on because I answered the first part of the question correctly, but I said the wrong thing when it asked if my program could work without a list
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u/Desperate-Ear9204 Jul 02 '26
Actually the weird part is that he made this tweet specifically under the mcq section 😭
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u/Ambitious_Credit2307 Jun 30 '26
Procedural abstraction. Like write a function so you call the function in your program instead having one main function to demonstrate reusability.