{"id":240,"date":"2011-05-17T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.155.6.59\/south-counselling\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:07:22","slug":"ap-honours-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/course-selection\/ap-honours-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"AP &#038; Honours Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #cc00ff;\">why take honours courses?<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Enriched learning environment, greater depth in topics learned <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Group of equally interested, motivated &amp; advanced students <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Find out what you can really do - challenge yourself<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grade 11 Honours courses are prerequisites for many Grade 12 AP courses.\u00a0 AP Courses can give you credit for university level courses and help with admission status<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> \u2663\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">FACT:<\/span><\/strong> 1 out of every 3 students at Burnaby South is taking at least<br \/>\n1 Honours\/AP course<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cc00ff;\">what is ap??<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AP stands for Advanced Placement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Program of university-level courses and exams offered in high school <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earn advanced placement and\/or credit for college or university level courses while in high school. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Exams scored on a scale of 1 to 5, with universities giving credit for score of 4 or 5 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over 3.2 million exams written worldwide,\u00a0 23,700 in Canada and over 8,500 in B.C<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cc00ff;\">benefits of taking ap courses\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prepare students for university work and expectations of 1st year courses <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earn advance placement and\/or credit for university while still in high school <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Potentially save a lot of $$$ since university tuition fees are expensive <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finish your post-secondary degree earlier (or earlier entry into graduate school)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">38% of all grade 12s in 2010-2011 took at least ONE AP course<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">***All AP courses are Grade 12 level but some may be taken when students are in Grade 11 (or even Grade 10)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cc00ff;\"><strong>FOR MORE INFORMATION...<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>See the Burnaby South Website AP <a href=\"http:\/\/south.sd41.bc.ca\/depts\/ap\/ap.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why take honours courses? Enriched learning environment, greater depth in topics learned Group of equally interested, motivated &amp; advanced students Find out what you can really do - challenge yourself Grade 11 Honours courses are prerequisites for many Grade 12 AP courses.\u00a0 AP Courses can give you credit for university level courses and help with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/course-selection\/ap-honours-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"AP &#038; Honours Courses\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"parent":87,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/1060"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-counselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}