When does 23 equal 55? When it comes to grading the Math A Regents exam. Never before has the state required students to answer so few questions correctly on the mandatory test to eke out a passing ...

Question: When is 39 a passing grade? Answer: When it’s the Math Regents exam. A new scoring system announced yesterday suddenly transformed hundreds of failing grades on June’s Math A Regents into ...

High-school students taking the Math A Regents exam this week must correctly answer fewer than one-third of the questions to pass – the lowest benchmark in at least six years – because of a revised ...

Paul Gasparini, principal of Jamesville-DeWitt High School, talks in 2012 with Ben Shapiro, then a senior at the school. Many eighth- and ninth-graders at J-D and elsewhere will take two Regents ...

His math is right, but more advanced than that of the “typical” test taker. After an East Setauket teen said he discovered a flaw in a Regents Geometry exam question, the state Education Department ...

Alfred S. Posamentier, a professor of mathematics education at the City College of the City University of New York, is a former member of the New York State Standards Commission. New York is thinking ...