For those who do not accelerate in grade 7 or 8, the opportunity to take advanced classes and AP courses is not closed. These options remain a possibility throughout high school for as long as high academic performance is demonstrated and the other prerequisites are met. However, for those who are already on the accelerated pathways, performing well on the Regents exams ensures their lead. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. If the request is denied, only session 1 of the Grades English Language Arts ELA and Math Tests will be required, and only the one-session written test component of the Grades 4 and 8 Science Tests will be administered. There are other areas of flexibility relating to Regents Exams and graduation requirements. They are statewide tests in the four core subjects of high school. These subjects include English Language Arts, math, science, and social studies.
Passing at least five of these exams for these given subjects is required to earn a Regents Diploma at the end of high school, along with an Advanced Regents diploma which requires extra high school credits. Regents diplomas and Advanced Regents diplomas are what most colleges look for in NY high school students, with the exception of a handful of students that meet the criteria for a local diploma.
Regents courses, which are the classes that prepare students for their required Regents exam, are high school courses that many students begin taking in the eighth grade, most commonly with Algebra I and Living Environment. Here at East Rockaway, all students in 8th grade are currently enrolled in Algebra I, a first for the school after a decision from the East Rockaway Board of Education. In previous years, enrollment was split: half of the 8th grade took Math 8, while the other half took Algebra I.
However, since the district saw strong results in passing scores for 8th graders taking the Regents in past years, they moved forward with having all 8th graders taking Accelerated Algebra. According to math department chair Mr. We have seen an increase in students taking college level math classes in the past couple of years, but looking forward 4 years from now, we should have an even greater increase. Asking middle schoolers to take high school-level courses can be a bit risky for a couple of reasons.
Many schools in Nassau County, like East Rockaway, have their eighth-graders skip Math 8 and go right to Algebra I, with the exception of students with special needs or education. Based on your performance, you'll receive a scaled score from on each test. The four Science Regents exams Earth Science, Living Environment, Chemistry, and Physics also include separately-scheduled lab practicals ; you can read more about these in our articles about the Earth Science , Living Environment , and Chemistry Regents.
However, you will still have to take at least five Regents exams and in many cases, eight tests across grades to get your NY high school diploma —if you're in public school, that is.
If you go to private school, you're in luck—the Regents are only mandatory for students attending public school in New York. Now that you have a better idea of what the Regents are, we'll move on to discussing how many Regents exams you have to take.
The requirements for which and how many NYS Regents exams you need to graduate and how well you need to do on the exams depend on what kind of diploma you'll be graduating with. There are three main categories of Regents diploma: regular Regents diplomas , Regents with Advanced Designation diplomas , and diplomas for students with special circumstances e.
Here's a brief summary of the differences between the three categories and how many Regents you need to pass to graduate with each diploma type:. The majority of NY public school students will graduate with either a regular Regents diploma or a Regents with Advanced Designation diploma.
We'll go through the testing requirements for those two categories in greater detail next. Unless you have an IEP or are an English language learner, you need to meet the Regents diploma requirements to graduate high school.
You'll need to pass at least four Regents exams get a 65 or higher to get this Regents diploma:. In addition to these four tests, you must choose one of the following six Pathway options :. Unless you choose one of the alternate Pathway options, this means that you'll need to take five Regents exams and get a 65 or above on each to graduate.
If you just miss the cutoff on one of your tests scoring a , you can appeal to your district to still allow you to graduate; if you score lower than that, or if you score below 65 on multiple tests, however, you'll need to either re-take the test s and pass or take another Regents and pass. If you're looking to challenge yourself, you can aim for a Regents with Honors diploma; the only difference is that instead of only needing a 65 or above, you need to have an average of 90 or above across all your Regents whether you take four or five.
There isn't really a material advantage to your college applications to getting a Regents with Honors diploma except possibly if you're applying to SUNY or CUNY colleges , but if your teachers count your Regents exam grade as part of your course grade, it's to your benefit to do well on the Regents you take. If I recall correctly, I believe that for some of my high school classes, our Regents grades were counted as two test scores when calculating our grades in the final quarter of the year.
The requirements for the Regents with Advanced Designation diploma include everything you need to do for the Regents Diploma plus passing two to three additional Regents exams, for a total of seven or eight Regents exams. As with getting a Regents with Honors diploma, unless you're applying to a SUNY or CUNY college which uses your Regents diploma level as a placement or admissions criteria, there's no real benefit in specifically aiming for a Regents with Advanced Designation diploma.
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