How many Regent Exams did you need to take and pass to graduate?
Does at least 9 exams seem correct?
English, US History, Global, two math, two science, a Language and third exam in either math or science. This was the MINIMUM.
Today student just need to pass 5 exams for a regents diploma!
This sounds a lot like lowering the standards.
Plus these 5 exams are heavily curved!
In case you are interested, I created the below chart to break things down.
Remember
students only need to pass 5 exams
(Only
one math and one science)
Regents Exams
June 2014
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Number of points on
the exam:
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Number of points
need to pass with a 65:
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What the grade
would be without a curve:
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Algebra
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87
|
30
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34%
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Geometry
|
86
|
41
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47.6%
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Earth Science
|
85
|
41
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48%
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Biology
|
85
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41
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48%
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English
|
These exams are
curved too but because they have essays or long response answers, the
conversion charts are a little more difficulty to read. I will be looking into this when I have more
time.
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Global
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US History
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No
wonder colleges are complaining.
Students are given passing grades
and a diploma based on actual scores that are LESS than 50% on the above required exams!
This is the dumbing down of
AMERICA!
This has been going on for over 10
years.
It has nothing to do with teacher
effectiveness or standards!
This has to do with
destroying public education.
Pearson basically owns a monopoly of
creating these exams, data systems to grade them, and the books schools need to
buy (each time the standards get changed).
Make no mistake this is a MULTI-BILLION dollar business. Politian’s are being bought off and in some cases
they are jumping on the bandwagon and getting involved in creating million
dollar online/digital learning systems. This is all being done in a very systematic
way to drive society away from public education!
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