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10 official charts — June 2015 to June 2026 · given through June 2027

Physical Setting: Physics Regents conversion chart — raw score to scale score, session by session

On the June 2026 Physical Setting: Physics exam it took 50 raw points out of 85 to reach a 65, and 69 to reach an 85. Every administration has its own chart and they do not agree with one another — across the 10 published sittings we hold, the 65 line has sat anywhere between 48 and 50 raw points. Pick the exact sitting below; nothing here applies to an exam that has not been given.

Still administered through June 2027

This exam is still being given. NYSED's implementation schedule sets its last administration for June 2027, with Physical Science: Physics running alongside it until then — so the charts below are a record of the sittings published so far, not a closed archive. NYSED implementation schedule (PDF).

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Physical Setting: Physics — raw to scale

Convert a Physical Setting: Physics raw score

The exam is already selected. Choose the administration your child actually sat — the list holds the 10 sittings NYSED has published a chart for, most recent first — then enter the raw score.

Make sure this is the right exam. New York gives two different exams whose names share a word: Physical Setting: Physics (this page, scored out of 85) and Physical Science: Physics. They have different charts, and their raw-score ranges overlap, so nothing on this page can catch the mix-up for you. Sat the Physical Science: Physics Regents instead? Use its chart → The exam title is printed on the front cover of the test booklet and on the score report.

Careful: Physical Science: Physics is a different exam with a different chart, and their raw scores overlap. Check the title on the front of the test booklet.

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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

Physical Setting: Physics, 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.

Physical Setting: Physics — June 2026 Regents. Raw Score 0 to 85, converted to the scale score exactly as published by NYSED.
Raw ScoreScale score
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35
47
58
610
711
813
914
1016
1117
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2130
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5166
5267
5368
5469
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5671
5772
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6177
6278
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6480
6581
6682
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7187
7288
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7490
7591
7692
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7894
7994
8095
8196
8297
8398
8499
85100

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, Physical Setting: Physics, June 2026 (XLSX) · the same chart as PDF

The record, in three numbers

What 10 published Physical Setting: Physics charts show

50 / 85

Raw points for a 65, June 2026

Read from the chart for that administration. Not a target for any other sitting.

69 / 85

Raw points for an 85, June 2026

Passing with distinction, in New York’s own wording, on the same exam.

48–50

Range of the 65 line across every published sitting

From June 2015 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 Physical Setting: Physics curve history page, with the NYSED file for each sitting.

Questions

Physical Setting: Physics scoring, answered

What raw score do you need to pass the Physical Setting: Physics Regents?

On the June 2026 administration it took 50 raw points out of 85 to reach a scale score of 65. That number belongs to that sitting and to no other: across the 10 published Physical Setting: Physics charts we hold, the raw points needed for a 65 have ranged from 48 to 50. Use the calculator above with the exact administration your child sat.

Does this work for the next Physical Setting: Physics 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 2015 to June 2026, and this exam is still being given: NYSED's implementation schedule runs it through June 2027. 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 Physical Setting: Physics Regents?

Because NYSED does not publish one on this exam's charts. Physical Setting: Physics 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 Physical Setting: Physics administrations are covered?

10 of them, from June 2015 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 Physical Setting: Physics Regents still given?

Yes, through June 2027. NYSED's implementation schedule ("Implementation Schedule for New Regents Examinations") sets June 2027 as the last administration of this exam, with Physical Science: Physics phasing in alongside it over four administrations so that students sit the exam matching the instruction they received. Until that date this is a live exam, and these charts are as useful for a student preparing for the next sitting as for one reading a score already earned.

Where does this Physical Setting: Physics data come from?

From the conversion chart spreadsheets NYSED publishes on nysedregents.org — 10 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 10 Physical Setting: Physics 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.

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