<p>Regents requirements changed so often, it’s very hard to keep up. My kids found them easy, but there was one year when they put so many tricky questions on the Chemistry Regents one year when my kids were in school that lots of A students were getting scores in the 70s and 80s. It’s all pretty moot - the kids in our school applying to selective colleges took took Bio, Chem and Physics (often AP Physics B which doesn’t exist any more) and one AP science even if they weren’t STEM bound or two or three AP sciences if they were. </p>
<p>All that’s beside the original question - which is apparently that it’s quite common for physics not to be offered, even though in suburban high schools it’s always offered and usually the AP too.</p>