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Stephanie, We happen to have on our campus up here an education professor who has had a lot to do with the recent re-designs of the NY Regents exam. I forwarded your question to him, and this is what he said: James Shuman wrote: > There's a HUGE amount of info about the Regents Exams. There > are several exams, one for each of the subject matter areas that usually > make up the "liberal arts" aspect of the school curriculum -- English, > Mathematics, Global History, US History, Foreign Language, Biology, > Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science. The exams are based on published > standards for each of those curricula, and the standards can be found on the > NYSED website (www.nysed.gov). Institutions of higher education could > indeed use the regents exam score printed on a NY student's transcript to > assure a level of proficiency. But they would need to compare their own > curricular standards against those published by NYSED to determine how to > "place" a student in a particular sequence of college-level courses. In > general, the regents exams assess secondary-level learning, not college > level learning. > > Hope this helps, Jim > --Steve Runge St. Lawrence U. Canton, NY 13617 [log in to unmask]