United States History and Government Regents curve history — what a 65 cost at every sitting, and at every essay score
This exam has no single curve. NYSED converts it on a two-way chart, so every administration carries 11 different 65 lines — one per Total Part IIIB Essay Score. At an essay score of 2.5, the Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score needed for a 65 has run from 20 points (August 2024) to 22 points (June 2023) across the 11 sittings. Inside the August 2026 sitting alone, moving the essay from 0 to 5 moves that same line by 15 points. Every figure below is read from the NYSED chart for that sitting. Nothing is smoothed, averaged, or carried forward to a sitting that has not happened.
The series
Eleven curves, not one
A chart can only draw one essay score at a time, so the graph below takes the middle of the axis and the two tables under it carry all 11 columns. Read them together: the graph shows movement between sittings, the tables show what the essay is worth inside one.
United States History and Government — Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score needed for a 65 and an 85, with an essay score of 2.5
One point per published administration, June 2023 to August 2026. This exam has no single raw score, so a curve can only be drawn one essay score at a time — this one is the middle of the 0–5 axis, and all 11 columns are in the tables below. At this essay score the 65 line has run from 20 to 22 points out of 44. Where a sitting is missing from the record — cancelled, or never given a published chart — the line breaks rather than being joined across it.
Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score needed for a 65, at every essay score
Read down a column to see how one essay score has moved between sittings; read across a row to see how much the essay is worth within a single sitting. Every figure is the smallest Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score whose published final score reaches 65 — read from the chart, never worked out from a percentage.
| Administration | Total Part IIIB Essay Score | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.5 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | |
| August 2026 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 12 |
| June 2026 | 29 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 |
| January 2026 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 13 |
| August 2025 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 14 |
| June 2025 | 29 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 |
| January 2025 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 13 |
| August 2024 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 13 |
| June 2024 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 14 |
| January 2024 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 13 |
| August 2023 | 29 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 |
| June 2023 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 14 |
Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score needed for an 85 — and where an 85 cannot be reached at all
« Out of reach » is a published fact, not a missing figure. Where a cell says so, no Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score on the chart — not even a perfect 44 — reaches a final score of 85 at that essay score. On the August 2026 chart that is true for an essay score of 0 or 0.5. That is the single most consequential thing this exam's chart says: a student aiming at 85 has to carry the essay, because the objective parts cannot make up for it.
| Administration | Total Part IIIB Essay Score | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.5 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | |
| August 2026 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 43 | 41 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 34 | 32 |
| June 2026 | out of reach | out of reach | out of reach | 43 | 42 | 40 | 39 | 37 | 36 | 34 | 33 |
| January 2026 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 |
| August 2025 | out of reach | out of reach | out of reach | 43 | 42 | 40 | 39 | 37 | 36 | 34 | 33 |
| June 2025 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 |
| January 2025 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 |
| August 2024 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 |
| June 2024 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 43 | 41 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 34 | 32 |
| January 2024 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 |
| August 2023 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 |
| June 2023 | out of reach | out of reach | 44 | 43 | 41 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 34 | 32 |
What is deliberately absent from these tables
June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 — cancelled administrations, so there is no row and no line segment across them; the curve above breaks there instead of stepping over. There is no row for a future sitting: NYSED publishes a grid after an administration is scored, never before. And there is no interpolated cell anywhere: the Total Part IIIB Essay Score takes 11 values and no others, so a score between two of them has no conversion at all.
Need to convert an actual score rather than read the series? The United States History and Government score calculator reads the full grid for any of these sittings, cell by cell.
Session by session
Every published United States History and Government administration
Most recent first, with the size of each published grid and a link to the NYSED file it was read from, so nothing here has to be taken on trust.
| Administration | Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score max | Cells published | NYSED file |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| June 2026 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| January 2026 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| August 2025 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| June 2025 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| January 2025 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| August 2024 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| June 2024 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| January 2024 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| August 2023 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
| June 2023 | 44 | 495 | PDF · XLSX |
Open data
Take the numbers
The tables above are one exam's slice of the two-way grids: 5,445 published cells for this exam alone. Free to use with attribution.
Questions
United States History and Government curve, answered
Has the United States History and Government Regents curve got harder?
The honest answer needs two axes. At an essay score of 2.5, across the 11 published administrations the Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score needed for a 65 has run from 20 (August 2024) to 22 (June 2023) out of 44 — a spread of 2 points. But the essay moves the same line further within a single sitting: on August 2026 alone, a 65 took 27 objective points with an essay of 0 and 12 with an essay of 5, a spread of 15 points. Neither figure says anything about the next sitting.
Why is there no single "curve" for the United States History and Government Regents?
Because NYSED does not publish one. This exam converts on a two-way chart: the Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score down the side, the Total Part IIIB Essay Score across the top, and the final score where they meet. There are 11 essay scores on that axis — 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5 — so there are 11 different 65 lines in every administration, not one. That is why the tables here are wide rather than tall, and why a site that quotes one number for this exam has quietly dropped an axis.
Can a United States History and Government student reach an 85 without the essay?
No, and the chart states it. On the August 2026 administration, an essay score of 0 or 0.5 puts 85 beyond reach entirely: even a perfect 44 on the Total Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA Score converts to less than 85 in those columns. That is why those cells are printed here as "out of reach" rather than as a dash — a dash would read as missing data, and this is published data.
Can I work out the United States History and Government curve for the next exam from this?
No. NYSED publishes a conversion grid only after an administration has been scored, so no grid exists for a sitting that has not happened, and the movement in this series is not regular enough to stand in for one. This page is a record of what the exam has actually required. Treating it as a rule for a future sitting would put a number in a student’s head that nobody can stand behind.
Why are there gaps in the series?
Because those administrations never took place: June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 were cancelled around the pandemic. The line on the chart breaks rather than jumping the gap, because joining the two edges would draw a data point that does not exist.
Where these figures come from
All 11 grids come from the United States History and Government conversion charts published by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), Office of State Assessment, each linked in the table above. Conversion charts published by NYSED. Figures reproduced as published; consult the linked NYSED file for the authoritative version. Last verified September 7, 2026.
- NYSED — United States History and Government conversion chart archive
- NYSED — Regents examination archive
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