Living Environment Regents conversion chart — raw score to scale score, session by session
On the June 2026 Living Environment exam it took 40 raw points out of 85 to reach a 65, and 67 to reach an 85. Every administration has its own chart and they do not agree with one another — across the 32 published sittings we hold, the 65 line has sat anywhere between 40 and 41 raw points. Pick the exact sitting below; nothing here applies to an exam that has not been given.
No longer administered
New York State stopped administering this exam after June 2026, replacing it with Life Science: Biology. The charts below are the full published record; there will be no later session. NYSED implementation schedule (PDF).
Living Environment — raw to scale
Convert a Living Environment raw score
The exam is already selected. Choose the administration your child actually sat — the list holds the 32 sittings NYSED has published a chart for, most recent first — then enter the raw score.
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There is no chart for an exam that has not been given yet. NYSED publishes the raw-to-scale conversion for an administration only after that administration has been scored, and the numbers genuinely move between sittings: the Algebra I raw total dropped from 86 points to 82 in June 2024, Algebra II did the same in June 2026, and the Level 3 range in Algebra I ran 65–73 in August 2015 and 65–79 in June 2016. So this tool reads published charts and nothing else. Anyone telling a student what raw score will earn a 65 at a future sitting is making it up.
The most recent chart
Living Environment, June 2026 — every row
This is the whole chart NYSED published for the June 2026 administration: 86 rows, raw score 0 to 85, with no performance-level column, because NYSED publishes none for this exam. Earlier administrations are in the selector above, each with its own source file.
| Raw Score | Scale score |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 10 |
| 5 | 12 |
| 6 | 14 |
| 7 | 16 |
| 8 | 18 |
| 9 | 20 |
| 10 | 22 |
| 11 | 24 |
| 12 | 26 |
| 13 | 28 |
| 14 | 29 |
| 15 | 31 |
| 16 | 33 |
| 17 | 35 |
| 18 | 36 |
| 19 | 38 |
| 20 | 40 |
| 21 | 41 |
| 22 | 42 |
| 23 | 44 |
| 24 | 45 |
| 25 | 47 |
| 26 | 48 |
| 27 | 49 |
| 28 | 51 |
| 29 | 52 |
| 30 | 53 |
| 31 | 55 |
| 32 | 56 |
| 33 | 57 |
| 34 | 58 |
| 35 | 59 |
| 36 | 60 |
| 37 | 61 |
| 38 | 62 |
| 39 | 64 |
| 40 | 65 |
| 41 | 66 |
| 42 | 66 |
| 43 | 67 |
| 44 | 68 |
| 45 | 69 |
| 46 | 70 |
| 47 | 71 |
| 48 | 72 |
| 49 | 72 |
| 50 | 73 |
| 51 | 74 |
| 52 | 75 |
| 53 | 75 |
| 54 | 76 |
| 55 | 77 |
| 56 | 78 |
| 57 | 78 |
| 58 | 79 |
| 59 | 80 |
| 60 | 80 |
| 61 | 81 |
| 62 | 82 |
| 63 | 82 |
| 64 | 83 |
| 65 | 84 |
| 66 | 84 |
| 67 | 85 |
| 68 | 86 |
| 69 | 87 |
| 70 | 87 |
| 71 | 88 |
| 72 | 89 |
| 73 | 89 |
| 74 | 90 |
| 75 | 91 |
| 76 | 92 |
| 77 | 92 |
| 78 | 93 |
| 79 | 94 |
| 80 | 95 |
| 81 | 96 |
| 82 | 96 |
| 83 | 97 |
| 84 | 98 |
| 85 | 100 |
Scores at or above 65 are shown in red — 65 is the passing score in New York, and 85 is what the State calls passing with distinction. This chart applies to the June 2026 administration only.
Source: NYSED conversion chart, Living Environment, June 2026 (XLSX) · the same chart as PDF
The record, in three numbers
What 32 published Living Environment charts show
40 / 85
Raw points for a 65, June 2026
Read from the chart for that administration. Not a target for any other sitting.
67 / 85
Raw points for an 85, June 2026
Passing with distinction, in New York’s own wording, on the same exam.
40–41
Range of the 65 line across every published sitting
From June 2014 to June 2026. This spread is the reason a chart from one year cannot read a score from another.
The full session-by-session record — raw total, raw points for a 65, raw points for an 85, and the 65 line as a share of the exam — is on the Living Environment curve history page, with the NYSED file for each sitting.
Questions
Living Environment scoring, answered
What raw score do you need to pass the Living Environment Regents?
On the June 2026 administration it took 40 raw points out of 85 to reach a scale score of 65. That number belongs to that sitting and to no other: across the 32 published Living Environment charts we hold, the raw points needed for a 65 have ranged from 40 to 41. Use the calculator above with the exact administration your child sat.
Does this work for the next Living Environment Regents?
No. NYSED publishes a conversion chart only after an administration has been scored, so no chart exists for a sitting that has not happened. The charts here run from June 2014 to June 2026, which is the complete record for this exam. If you want to know how much the requirement has moved between sittings, the curve history page shows the raw points needed for a 65 at every published administration — which is the honest version of that question.
Why is there no performance level for the Living Environment Regents?
Because NYSED does not publish one on this exam's charts. Living Environment is one of the pre-Common-Core Regents, reported on four derived levels rather than five, and its conversion charts carry a raw-score column and a scale-score column only. Printing a level here would mean inventing it, so the tool shows none.
Which Living Environment administrations are covered?
32 of them, from June 2014 to June 2026. Sessions earlier than June 2014 exist only as PDFs on the NYSED site and are not covered here. The administrations cancelled around the pandemic — June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 — are absent because they were never held, and the special June 2021 administration, where it applies, is labelled as such rather than folded in with the ordinary sittings.
Is the Living Environment Regents still given?
No. New York State stopped administering this exam after June 2026, replacing it with Life Science: Biology. The charts below are the full published record; there will be no later session. New York moved to the new science standards exams — Life Science: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Physical Science: Chemistry and Physical Science: Physics. These charts are here for students who already sat this exam and need to read their score, not as preparation for a future sitting.
Where does this Living Environment data come from?
From the conversion chart spreadsheets NYSED publishes on nysedregents.org — 32 files for this exam alone, each linked from its own result in the calculator. They are re-downloaded and re-parsed automatically, and nothing is published if a checksum moves, a file changes shape, or the reference values stop matching. Last verified September 2, 2026.
Where these figures come from
All 32 Living Environment charts on this page are read from the spreadsheets published by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), Office of State Assessment. Conversion charts published by NYSED. Figures reproduced as published; consult the linked NYSED file for the authoritative version. Last verified September 2, 2026.
- NYSED — Living Environment conversion chart archive
- NYSED — Living Environment, June 2026 chart (XLSX, the file behind the table above)
- NYSED — Regents examination archive
- NYSED — Implementation Schedule for New Regents Examinations (PDF) — the source for the June 2026 last administration of this exam
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