The New York State Education Department requires all students in the area of mathematics to take the NYS Algebra 1 Regents Exam in order to graduate. Students choosing to receive their Advanced Regents Diploma must also take the Geometry and Algebra 2 Regents Exams. Feel free to refer to the Student Handbook if you have any questions about the graduation requirements or details about other courses.
The exams are offered in June (please note that the start times for the exam are at 8:00am and 12:00 p.m., not 9:15 and 1:15. See below for schedule of exams) every year at the end of the course and subsequently in August and January should a student need to retake them or is just moving in. The exams are each comprised of multiple choice and extended response questions. Students are given a maximum of three hours to take the exam, unless the student receives testing modifications. Teachers prepare the students for the exams throughout the year and typically have an intense review time just prior to the exam in order to prepare them for the style of questioning and format. The exams are later scored by other teachers within the math department and scores are then sent to the Regional Information Center to confirm the score. Students receive a scaled score and similar to the 3-8 testing are given a score between 1 and 5. The Regents Exam is required for Algebra 1 and 2, and Geometry classes. Other math classes use a local final as part of their summative assessment.
Due to our transient population, students who move into the Indian River School District that have already taken the math courses listed above, are required to take at least the Algebra 1 regents to graduate from NYS. We provide a course, Intensive Algebra, that is intended to review the Algebra concepts and to prepare students for the Regents exam. This course is only for a semester (20 weeks) and is many times taken in conjunction with another math course.