How the Regents curve has moved — what a 65 actually cost, session by session

That is the wrong question asked of the right data. The raw score needed for a 65 does move between administrations, but the size of the exam moves too — the Algebra I raw total went from 86 points to 82 in June 2024, Algebra II did the same in June 2026, and Geometry went from 86 to 80 in 2018. So a drop in raw points needed can mean a smaller exam rather than an easier one. Each exam page here shows both views: the raw points needed, and those points as a share of that session’s raw total, with the change of raw total marked on the chart.

No. NYSED publishes a conversion chart only after an administration has been scored, and the record on these pages is exactly that: what already happened. It is genuinely useful — you can see how much the 65 line has moved on a given exam over a decade — but it is history, not a rule for the next sitting. Anyone converting that history into a number a student can rely on for a future exam is going beyond the data.

Because those administrations were never held. June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 were cancelled around the pandemic, and they are shown as gaps rather than joined up with a line across them. The one survivor from that period is a special June 2021 administration, limited to a handful of exams, which is labelled as such rather than folded in with the ordinary sittings.

Yes. The whole dataset is downloadable as two CSV files — one row per administration with the raw total and the raw score needed for a 65 and an 85, and one with every raw-to-scale pair we hold (16,209 rows). The figures are NYSED’s, reproduced as published; the linked NYSED file is always the authoritative version. Attribution to this page is appreciated and helps other people find the source.

Those with at least 4 published administrations. A series drawn over one or two points is not a series, so the newest science exams — Physical Science: Physics has a single published chart, Physical Science: Chemistry two — have a calculator page but no history page. They will get one as NYSED publishes more sittings.