{"id":143,"date":"2016-11-23T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2016-11-28T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:46:36","slug":"ap-honors-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/ap-honors-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"AP &#038; Honors Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Why Take Honors Courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Enriched learning environment, greater depth in topics learned<\/li>\n<li>Group of equally interested, motivated &amp; advanced students<\/li>\n<li>Find out what you can really do \u2013 challenge yourself<\/li>\n<li>Grade 11 Honors courses are prerequisites for many Grade 12 AP courses.&nbsp; AP Courses can give you credit for university level courses and help with admission status<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is AP (Avanced Placement)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>AP stands for Advanced Placement<\/li>\n<li>Program of university-level courses and exams offered in high school<\/li>\n<li>Earn advanced placement and\/or credit for college or university level courses while in high school.<\/li>\n<li>Exams scored on a scale of 1 to 5, with universities giving credit for score of 4 or 5<\/li>\n<li>Over 3.2 million exams written worldwide,&nbsp; 23,700 in Canada and over 8,500 in B.C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Benefits of Taking AP Courses&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare students for university work and expectations of 1st year courses<\/li>\n<li>Earn advance placement and\/or credit for university while still in high school<\/li>\n<li>Potentially save a lot of $$$ since university tuition fees are expensive<\/li>\n<li>Finish your post-secondary degree earlier (or earlier entry into graduate school)<\/li>\n<li>38% of all grade 12s in 2010-2011 took at least ONE AP course<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>***All AP courses are Grade 12 level but some may be taken when students are in Grade 11 (or even Grade 10)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Take Honors Courses Enriched learning environment, greater depth in topics learned Group of equally interested, motivated &amp; advanced students Find out what you can really do \u2013 challenge yourself Grade 11 Honors courses are prerequisites for many Grade 12 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/ap-honors-courses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6871,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}