There's nothing like feeling marginalized by minimal testing standards.
Here are the NY State Regents conversion charts for this year's exams.
To pass the living environment exam (which is a stripped down version of biology), a student needs to score a 39 out of 85 points. There are 41 multiple choice questions and 44 points of free-response questions.
This raw score means that a student needs to score a 46% or higher to pass the Regents exam with a scaled score of a 65.
Does anybody else see what is wrong with this picture?!
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I took a look through the Living Environment Regent's for the first time last week. After trying 20 questions, I closed it, bored out of my mind. When did it change from a test about science to a test of common sense???
Nevertheless, the math scale is even worse. A student only needed 34% to pass Integrated Algebra. And with that, I only got around 70% to pass. But my AP tells me that the citywide average is 50%... standards based education with really no standards at all.
Math and science are notoriously poor. I think having pseudostandards is sort of a meaningless formality. And the students know it.
I saw the integrated algebra conversion chart (30/85 or something). It's wonder that students find ways to fail with substandard standards...
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