Sentinel

SEVENTEEN Sentinel
Secondary students
have been named
Advanced Placement
Scholars by the College
Board in recognition of
exceptional achieve-
ments on college level
Advanced Placement
Examinations written
in May.

The College Board recog-
nizes several levels of achieve-
ment based on the number of
year long courses and exams.
At. Sentinel, five students

walified for the AP National

Scholar Award as well as the

- AP Scholar with Distinction

Award by carning grades of 4

or higher on five or more AP
Examinations.

These students are Anya

“Tavionmorive

Brox, Tiffany Butt, Terence
‘Lee, Samantha Waters, and
Andrea Woo, and all five have
given Sentinel the distinction
of having the largest number
of AP National Scholars in
Canada.

Danny Jui was awarded an
AP Scholar with Distinction
Award for achieving a mini-
mum average of 3.5 on five or
more AP examinations.

Four other students —
Margaret Campbell, Howard
Leung, Hamish Marshall, and
Ming Ong — qualified for the
AP Scholar with Honor
Award by carning grades of 3
or higher on four or more AP
Examinations, with an aver-
age exam grade of at least
3.25.

And seven Sentinel stu-
dents qualified for the AP
Scholar Award by completing
three or more AP

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Examinations with grades of
3. or higher: Corina
Dumitreseu, Bonnie
Farquhar, Deirdre Field,
Laura-Lee Findlater,
Alexandra Hejduk, Stuart
Louie, and Reuben Schwarz.

Only about 12% of the
more than 537,000 North
American students who took
AP Examinations in May per-

students score hi

formed at a sufficiently high
level to merit such recogni-
tion as the 17 Sentinel stu-
dents. The College Board is a
non-profit educational associ-
ation serving students,
schools, and colleges through
programs designed to expand
educational opportunity. One
of these programs is the
Advanced Placement Pro-

Sunday, November 10, 1996 — North Shore News — 31

git in exams

gram where students com-
plete challenging college level
courses at their high school.
Each May, the students write
AP examinations which are
graded on a 5-point scale (5 is
the highest). Most of the col-
leges and universities in
Canada and the United States
award credit and/or place-
ment for grades of 3 or high-

er, and more than 1,300 insti-
tutions award a year of credit
(sophomore or second year _
standing) to students with a -
sufficient number of qualify-
ing grades. At Sentinel, 1] AP
examinations are offered in
eight disciplines, cach consist-
ing of multiple-choice and
free-response (essay or prob-.
lem-solving) questions.

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