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enter Grade Nine. This consisted of a battery of tests in English, math, geography, history, science and hygiene. The tests took the full day to complete. Grade Ten students had to travel all the way to Montague High School to write two or three days of “Entrance” exams. The papers were sent off to Charlottetown to be marked, and the results were not known until early in August. Names of those who were successful were published in The Guardian, the daily newspaper. Success meant that we left the security and simplicity of the little country institute of learning and headed off to Prince of Wales College, Notre Dame Academy, or St. Dunstan’s High School in Charlottetown.

Grade eleven and grade twelve