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The Toughest Programming Question for High School Students on This Year's CS Exam: Arrays


America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. But students did better on questions about If-Then statements than they did on questions about arrays, according to the head ...

America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. ""The most challenging AP Computer Science A free-response question was#4, the 2D array number puzzle; 19% of students earned 8-9 of the 9 points possible." That end of the graph also includes notoriously difficult subjects like Latin, Japanese Language, and Physics.

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