More than 25,000 public school students took a combined 38,685 Advanced Placement exams this year, a 6 percent increase in the number of participating Utah Students compared with 2015. Test-takers earned a passing score — a three, four or five on a five-point scale — on two-thirds of those exams, which awards college credit to participants in content areas like art history, calculus, English literature and psychology. The new AP data apply only to students in public schools, and were released ...