How many raw points a 65 costs on the Physical Setting: Physics Regents

The movement

Physical Setting: Physics has held its line

The Physical Setting: Physics line is close to flat. The first three sittings on record charged 56.9% of the paper for a 65, the last three 57.6% — a gap of 0.7 points of the exam over 10 sittings. Peak: June 2026, 50/85 (58.8%). Trough: June 2015, 48/85 (56.5%) — 2.3 points apart. One of the steadier exams in the set. The peak is recent, so an older figure understates what is being asked now.

The paper has been worth 85 raw points at every sitting, 2015 through 2026, so the raw column below compares directly across the whole record.

All 10 Physical Setting: Physics charts are June sittings — no second window in the same school year, so a result stands for twelve months. In June 2026 the 65 line sat at 50 and the 85 line at 69: 19 marks apart, 22.4 points of the paper — the stretch an Advanced Regents average is won on. Sharpest single move: June 2015 to June 2016, 1.2 points in one step, against the student. 4 of the last 6 sat above the 57.1% median.

Every published chart is a June sitting

Physical Setting: Physics is the one exam on this site with no January and no August administration in its entire published record. That single fact changes how a year is planned more than any movement in the curve: there is no retake window a few weeks later to fall back on, so a June result stands until the following June. As with chemistry, a successor exam is already running — Physical Science: Physics — and the older exam’s last administration is set for June 2027. The two overlap on raw score range, so the exam name on the paper matters before any number does. The line below covers the older exam, on the 85-mark paper it has used for every sitting on record.

The single-window calendar also shapes who sits this exam. It is taken late in a school career, usually by students who have already chosen a direction, and it is the science Regents a student is least likely to be sitting because a timetable required it. That makes the cohort unusually self-selected, and it makes the stakes of a June result concrete: a student aiming at an engineering or science programme is producing the grade an admissions reader will see, with no second attempt inside the application cycle.

For anyone planning around the successor exam, the sequence matters. Physical Science: Physics is already being administered, the older exam's final sitting is set for June 2027, and the two use different papers with overlapping raw score ranges. A student in the overlap should be revising from the chart for the exam they are entered for, and a tutor who cannot say which of the two that is has not checked. The record below is the older exam only, and it stops where NYSED says it stops.

This exam has an end date already on the books: NYSED's implementation schedule sets the last Physical Setting: Physics administration for June 2027, with Physical Science: Physics running alongside it until then. The line below is therefore a record of what has been sat so far, not a closed archive — expect one or two more points on it.

Every sitting

The 10 Physical Setting: Physics administrations on record

One row per published chart, newest first, with the NYSED file behind each one. Every published sitting carries a 65 line, so none has been dropped. June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 are absent because no exam was held.

Want the conversion table itself — every raw score against its scale score for Physical Setting: Physics? That is a different question and it has its own page: the Physical Setting: Physics score calculator converts a raw score you already have. This page answers the one you ask before the exam.

What to do with it

Setting a Physical Setting: Physics target for the year ahead

Physical Setting: Physics sits 2th of 9 by how much of the paper a 65 costs. The line barely moves, so one target holds year to year: about 49 of 85, the recent average of 57.6%. That is a diploma floor, not a goal: 69 marks bought an 85 in June 2026 (81.2%), and that is the line a transcript is read on.

It is a band, not a forecast: across 10 sittings the 65 line on Physical Setting: Physics has never left 56.5–58.8% of the paper, and aiming at the top of that band survives a hard year instead of being surprised by one.

Physical Setting: Physics against the other exams

58.8% places Physical Setting: Physics 2 of 9. Its immediate neighbours on that scale:

All 9 exams, side by side →