AP Computer Science A FRQ Heat Map
A compact year-by-year view of released AP Computer Science A free-response patterns, rebuilt from the APCS Exam Prep archive back to 2010.
62
FRQs Analyzed
16
Exam Years
8
Core Topics Tracked
2010
Starting Year
Archive topics mapped from 2010 forward
The table counts primary archive categories by year. Each full exam column can total 4; 2020 totals 2 because the archive has two released FRQs for that year.
How to read the numbers
Each cell shows how many released FRQs in that year use that primary archive topic. The total column sums the 2010-2025 range.
Data source: APCS Exam Prep FRQ Archive year pages, normalized to one primary topic per released FRQ.
The four slots students should recognize fast
The archive shows both the modern stable categories and the older legacy categories that appear in 2010-2018.
Archive-Based Counts
Each FRQ is counted once under the primary type shown on the APCS Exam Prep year page.
Modern Q1-Q4 Pattern
Methods and control, class writing, ArrayList, and 2D array prompts stabilize after the format update.
Older Exam Topics
GridWorld and interface-heavy prompts remain visible so older archive years are not flattened into the current format.
COVID Year
The archive lists only Gizmo and CheckDigit for 2020, so that column totals to 2 instead of 4.