Does Cornell care about regents exams?

<p>^If you are really curious about the regents exams and have some free time, just google “past bio regents” or whatever subject you want and see the test for yourself. They’re all online</p>

<p>Yea, I just looked… how does the curve work for them?</p>

<p>There are conversion charts to go along with each test. Raw score->Scaled score</p>

<p>Well, I must say I’m quite impressed with NYS public education standards–organizing, funding, and creating standardized tests for so many subjects takes a lot of work.</p>

<p>I’m sure they see them on the transcript but don’t put much stock in a couple of scores. In my Daughters case she took AP Language this year & they had her class take the English Regents in Jan. Her teacher told them that she wasn’t going to do prep for the test because they were AP students & should do well. My D didn’t follow directions on one of the essays & got an 87 on the test, even though she has a 710 SAT CR & a 710 in Writing. My hope is that Cornell will not hold the Regents score against her based on her SAT scores.</p>

<p>@ I V , in my jhs, they only allow the top two classes in the grade to take the regents bio course, assuming they are intellectually ready. I wasn’t able to jump into those two class by the seventh grade. The kids usually do get over 90, even as junior high schooler, due to good teachers.</p>

<p>This is what I have so far</p>

<p>97 Earth Science
97 Biology
91 Chemistry even though I had a 750 on the SAT 2 test weird.
96 Math A
95 Math B
English Getting Score back soon
US historygetting score back soon</p>

<p>Eng and Us history were my last happy that I’m done with these tests.</p>

<p>i think regents isn’t worth much cause the teachers of the school grades them… so it all depends on the teacher what to give students</p>

<p>Not really…the way it’s supposed to be done is that two teachers grade each test, very simple scoring guidelines… most test scores are within a couple of points no matter who grades them.</p>

<p>2 teachers grade them? didn’t know that, all i know is that at my HS, like 1 teacher’s kids would get many hundreds and the other teachers get 0 hundreds but instead gets many 99s, so we were thinking its related to teh teachers…</p>

<p>^I am assuming if teachers were actually fixing the grades they would be discovered and lose their liscenses. I doubt the scores depend on the graders.</p>

<p>^ They don’t at all depend on the graders and two people usually check them.</p>

<p>Yeah and at my school if the teacher taught the student, he/she cannot grade the student’s exam</p>

<p>^ that’s usually the case</p>

<p>I got an A+ in Chemistry all 4 quarters this year. I just got my regents grade and I got a 93. Not that great for me. However, colleges may see your regents grades but they are insignificant when they are deciding to admit you to their school (unless they see you got failing grades on a majority of regents).</p>

<p>regents don’t really matter much; oh and the chemistry regents DEFINITELY got harder. last year’s one in june was a killer. the ones my sister took were a joke; they gave away the answers in the questions for the short answer.</p>

<p>My Regents scores:
Math A: 98
Spanish “Proficiency”: 98
Math B: 93
Chemistry: 94
Biology: 91
Global History: 99
Spanish: 100</p>

<p>Waiting for English and US; Physics we have to take tomorrow!</p>

<p>Cornell does not care about Regents unless they are ALL terrible (i.e. 65-85), although Cornell does have high demands for what they would give credit to for APs. For AP Chemistry, you will not get credit unless you get a 5. But even then, colleges don’t really care too much about AP scores, even if they don’t give credit for them.</p>

<p><a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/adv_placement_intl_credentials.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/adv_placement_intl_credentials.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>8th-
Math A- 99
Greek- 81
Earth Science- 92
9th-
Math B- 93
10th-
Biology- 98
Global- 96
11th-
Chemistry- 89
US- 97
English- 99
Spanish- shall see tomorrow…</p>

<p>I noticed a trend that they make the required ones EXTREMELY easy (Math A, Biology, Global, US, English [those last 3 are my worst subjects too]) And then have a bunch of random hard ones… what the hell was with Math B? and my Chem regent was hard too</p>

<p>So yeah… Regents = dumb IMO and i hope no school uses them for anything</p>

<p>@theb0mb93, you must have had the same chem regents I did; the one in June 2009. they had some questions that were AP-level questions, and I am not exaggerating. Explaining the solubility of gases according to Henry’s law for that soda question, explaining densities, and other explanation questions were HARD.</p>

<p>Regents don’t really matter. Before, about 60% of New Yorkers used to fail them in the 90s… now they made it super-easy so only about 30% fail. But yeah, I would say regents don’t really matter, especially since they are specific to the state of New York. </p>

<p>It’s like going to a specialized high school, colleges like Stonybrook and NYU might go crazy for you since they are in New York, but Ivies don’t really look too much into it. Stuyvesant and some private schools are different stories since they are one of those so-called “feeder” schools. In fact, most kids at Ivies are rich, white, and from private schools. Honestly, from what I’ve observed, as long as you have good grades, take challenging courses, have decent ECs, do well on the SATs, nothing else matters. That’s what matters the most. But aside from students at those various competitive selective and private schools, for the most part, most New Yorkers don’t put too much effort into their studies.</p>

<p>@tb0mb93: Greek? Do you mean Latin?</p>

<p>This is what I have so far</p>

<p>97 Earth Science
97 Biology
91 Chemistry even though I had a 750 on the SAT 2 test weird.
96 Math A
95 Math B
95 Global History
English getting score back soon
US history getting score back soon</p>

<p>Eng and Us history were my last happy that I’m done with these tests.</p>