More Wisconsin public school students are taking advanced placement exams, and more are doing well enough to get college credits for them. The state Department of Public Instruction says almost 43-thousand youngsters took 72-thousand A-P exams last May — close to six-percent more than the previous year. Those who scored high enough to earn college credits while still in high school rose from 65-point-five percent last year to 65-point-nine this year. And the state average continues to be higher than this year national success rate of 56-percent. Also, officials say Wisconsin’s average S-A-T college entrance test score was 652 last year, compared to the national composite of 527.
