Results of the APCS exam are not graded on a scale of 1 through 5, A through F, or pass/fail. So technically, there is no such thing as passing an APCS exam.
The free-response section is moderately subjective because each response is interpreted by an AP Reader who attempts to determine if the answer being read meets the College Board's criteria for correctness.
This would be really interesting if the response was transcribed, handwritten to a booklet, dropped into the middle of ten stacks, and read by the Readers. Ten Turing tests, ten interpretations, ten recommendations 1 thru 5.
The free-response section is moderately subjective because each response is interpreted by an AP Reader who attempts to determine if the answer being read meets the College Board's criteria for correctness.
This would be really interesting if the response was transcribed, handwritten to a booklet, dropped into the middle of ten stacks, and read by the Readers. Ten Turing tests, ten interpretations, ten recommendations 1 thru 5.