State Education Commissioner Richard Mills yesterday ordered a sweeping investigation of the validity of the math Regents exam, opening the door to invalidating the test and forcing thousands to ...

High-school students taking the Math A Regents exam this week must correctly answer fewer than one-third of the questions to pass – the lowest benchmark in at least six years – because of a revised ...

His math is right, but more advanced than that of the “typical” test taker. After an East Setauket teen said he discovered a flaw in a Regents Geometry exam question, the state Education Department ...

ALBANY — New York’s new integrated algebra test administered in June was so hard that a student could get a “raw score” of just 30 points out of a possible 87 and still pass. That’s because the State ...

New York Regents exams from a previous century were significantly more challenging and comprehensive than today's. Initially designed as entrance exams in the 1800s, they included essays, diagrams, ...

A growing number of advanced sixth-graders on Long Island and elsewhere could be taking algebra courses typically taken by ninth-graders, under new rules approved Tuesday by the state's Board of ...