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Show Cedar High participates in college advanced placement test program when they normally grant advanced ad-vanced placement and credit to candidates who have composite grades of 5, 4, or 3 and review individually candidates who have grades of 2. Cedar City Hih School's academic ac-ademic excellence in advanced placement was once again reflected re-flected in the scores just received re-ceived for the school year 1972-73. 1972-73. Thirty-one students took examinations. ex-aminations. Results of those examinations indicated that the number of grades 3 or higher were as follows: American History, 5; Biology, 9; English, 4, and European History, 1. Teachers in advanced place, ment are Richard Anderson, American history; Glade Soren-son, Soren-son, biology; Douglas Bonzo, English and Kent Bishop, European Eur-opean history. Since 1955 College Entrance Examination Board has offered the Advanced Placement Program Pro-gram through which secondary schools deliberately prepare able, interested students for advanced work in college. Cedar City High School has been involved in various phases of the program since 1962-63 school year. The program is based on the fact that many students can do college-level work while they are still in secondary school. This is evidenced evi-denced each year in the results of the tests which are administered adminis-tered in May. The examinations are graded in June of each year by a group of several hundred college and school teachers familiar with the program. The readers' Judgements on the essay questions, ques-tions, combined appropriately with the results of the objective questions are converted by the chief readers to the programs five-point college-level scale: 5, extremely well qualified; 4, well qualified; 3, qualified; 2, possible qualified, and 1, no recommendation. re-commendation. Ijt is the assumption of the program that colleges make best use of the examinations |