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Sarasota News Leader December 21, 2012 Page 37 PINE VIEW STUDENT EARNS PERFECT SCORE ON AP EXAM The College Board recently announced that Pine View School graduate Anthony Grebe earned every point possible on the Advanced Placement Macroeconomics exam he took in May. Grebe, who attends Washington University in St. Louis, was one of only 17 students to earn the distinction among the almost 100,000 students around the world who took the test in 2012, a Sarasota County Schools news release notes. The College Board, which administers the AP Program, recently informed Grebe and Pine View Principal Steve Largo about the rare achievement. ���We congratulate Anthony on this outstanding accomplishment,��� said Largo in the news release. ���We���d also like to recognize Sharda Jagdish, his AP Macroeconomics teacher, for her ability to engage students and help give them the tools they need to excel in a college-level Anthony Grebe/Contributed course.��� The AP exams are written and scored by colAdvanced Placement exams are based on a lege professors from around the world and are composite score of 1 to 5, with 5 equivalent typically designed to cover a full year of intento a grade of A in the corresponding college sive college-level work, the release points out. course, the news release points out. Grebe not Therefore, ���it is very rare for a high school only received the top score of 5 ��� ranking student to earn every point possible on any among 15.5 percent of students to fall with- AP exam,��� the release says. in this category in 2012 ��� but in doing so, In 2012, slightly more than 2 million students he answered every multiple-choice question at more than 18,000 high schools took 3.7 milcorrectly and earned full points on each of lion AP exams across a range of subjects, the the essays in the free-response section of the release notes. Only 88 students earned every exam (90 out of a possible 90 points), the repoint possible ��� a result characterized by the lease adds. College Board���s AP Program as ���an extraorAltogether, 99,903 students took the AP Mac- dinary academic achievement,��� the release adds. roeconomics exam in 2012.