{"id":1031,"date":"2015-10-14T23:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2015-10-14T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:32:13","slug":"graduation-program-examinations-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2015\/10\/14\/graduation-program-examinations-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Program Examinations Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"introduction\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/StaticWebResources\/static\/gov3\/images\/homepage\/gov3_bc_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"52\" \/>This scholarship is being phased out. The final allocation will be to high school graduates in the 2015\/16 school year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the 2015\/16 school year 5,020 B.C. high school graduates who have received the highest provincial exam scores in Grades 10-12 are eligible to receive scholarship vouchers to use towards their post-secondary tuition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<h2>Qualifying for a Graduation Program Examinations Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>A student will receive a $1250 Examinations Scholarship if the student:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/support\/provincial-scholarships#basic-eligibility\" target=\"_self\">Meets basic eligibility requirements<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fulfills the B.C. graduation requirements of either the 2004 Graduation Program or the Adult Graduation Program<\/li>\n<li>Meets all the following requirements:\n<ul>\n<li>Writes and passes one exam in each of five (5) provincial exam categories from grades 10 \u2013 12.<\/li>\n<li>Achieves at least a &#8220;B&#8221; (73% or above) final mark (provincial exam and school mark combined) in one of the Language Arts 12 (Communications 12, English 12, Fran\u00e7ais langue premiere 12, or English 12 First Peoples).\n<ul>\n<li>Must have a final course mark (course and exam combined) for the provincial exam to be counted towards scholarship<\/li>\n<li>Ranks among the top 5000 Grade 12 students in B.C. (based on their percentage score) on all five provincial exams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students cannot receive both a Graduation Program Examinations Scholarship\u00a0and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/support\/provincial-scholarships\/bc-achievement-scholarships\" target=\"_blank\">BC Achievement Scholarship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This scholarship is being phased out. The final allocation will be to high school graduates in the 2015\/16 school year. For the 2015\/16 school year 5,020 B.C. high school graduates who have received the highest provincial exam scores in Grades &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2015\/10\/14\/graduation-program-examinations-scholarships\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}