Algebra 2 Regents Tutoring for the Exam As It Is Now
The hardest of the three math Regents, and the one where three years of unfinished algebra finally arrives at once. One-on-one in the Flatiron or online.
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The exam stopped being out of 86 in June 2026
Up to January 2026
86 raw
26 points converted to a 65 on that chart. Every practice paper published before that date is scored on this total.
From June 2026
82 raw
30 points converted to a 65 on the August 2026 chart. This is the total your child’s exam is scored against.
This sounds like bookkeeping and it is not. Families revise by percentage — “he got 60% on the last one” — and a percentage computed against the wrong total is a wrong reading of where the student stands. Older papers are still excellent practice; their raw totals simply are not comparable to the current exam, and neither are the conversion charts that came with them.
Read from the 26 Algebra II conversion charts New York has published, June 2016 to August 2026. If you want to see it yourself, the Algebra II curve history plots every one of them.
Three unrelated courses, one exam, one year
Algebra II is the only Regents that asks a student to be fluent in three genuinely different kinds of mathematics at the same time. Students rarely fail all three. Knowing which one broke is the entire diagnosis.
Functions, logarithms, exponentials
The algebra of the course. If rational expressions and exponent rules are not automatic, everything here is done at half speed and the exam runs out before the student does. This is the pile that comes from Algebra I and it is the most common real answer.
Trigonometry
A separate language: the unit circle, radians, graphs of periodic functions, identities. Students who are fine at algebra can be lost here and vice versa. It is also the most teachable of the three from scratch, because it depends on very little that came before.
Statistics and probability
The part everyone leaves for last and the part with the most readable questions. Normal distributions, simulation, inference — heavy on interpretation and light on manipulation. For a student short on time, it is usually the best marks-per-hour on the paper.
Our diagnostic goes backwards on purpose
Most Algebra II tutoring starts where the class is. Ours starts with a released Algebra II paper and a short Algebra I audit alongside it, because the honest finding — in the majority of eleventh-grade students who come to us — is that the Algebra II content is not the binding constraint.
That is an unpopular thing to tell a family in March. It is also the only version that works, because drilling logarithms on top of shaky expression manipulation moves the failure to June rather than removing it.
If the audit points backwards, we say so and the plan says so. What that repair looks like is described on the Algebra I page; the Geometry page has the comparison of how strict the three math Regents actually are.
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The Algebra II tools we built, before you talk to anyone
Two things worth doing before you call anyone: convert your child's actual raw score on the chart for the sitting they took, and look at how the Algebra II curve has moved — including the change of total in 2026. We hold 26 published Algebra II charts, June 2016 to August 2026, read exactly as NYSED printed them — the August 2026 table included.
Algebra II questions parents actually ask
Is the Algebra 2 Regents different now?
The scoring has changed size. Every conversion chart New York published from June 2016 through January 2026 was scored out of 86 raw points; the June 2026 and August 2026 charts are out of 82. That matters if your child is practising on older papers: the questions are still good practice, but the raw total is not the same, so a percentage worked out on an old paper does not map onto the current exam.
My child got an 80 in Algebra I and is drowning in Algebra II. How?
Because Algebra I can be passed with pattern recognition, and Algebra II cannot. Rational expressions, logarithms and trigonometric functions all assume that manipulating an expression is automatic. If it is merely learnable-on-request, everything above it collapses. Our diagnostic deliberately includes Algebra I material for exactly this reason — and it is usually where the real work turns out to be.
Is Algebra II required to graduate?
Graduation requirements are set by the State and by your child’s school, and they are changing: students who entered ninth grade in 2024-25 or earlier are the final cohort required to pass Regents exams for a diploma. Ask the school counsellor what applies to your child specifically. What does not change is that the score lands on the New York transcript colleges read.
Which topic should we start with?
Almost never the one the class is on. Algebra II fails cumulatively — the topic where a student notices the problem is rarely the topic causing it. The diagnostic ranks the gaps by how much of the rest of the course depends on them, and we work down that list, which usually means starting further back than the family expected.
How much does Algebra 2 Regents tutoring cost?
A $150 diagnostic, then $125 per one-on-one session, at 928 Broadway in the Flatiron or online. Pay per session — no packages, no contracts, no minimum.
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Algebra, trigonometry, or statistics?
If you already know which one broke, tell us. If you do not, that is what the diagnostic is for — and it will also check the Algebra I underneath.