Is it worth it taking a gap year?

If you have not completed high school in Bangladesh and you are now enrolled in a NYC high school, you must meet the city/state’s requirement for graduation.

Has your counselor updated you foreign transcript? This way you will find out what you need to complete for graduation. You need 8 semesters of Core english and 8 semesters of social studies (Global History - 4 semesters, 2 semesters of US history, Economics and Government)6 semesters of math with at least one semester above high school algebra, 1 year of life sciences with labs, 1 year of physical science with lab and a third year of science, a minimum of 2 credits in foreign language, 7 elective credits, 4 credits in Physical Education, 2 credits in the Arts and 1 semester of healh.

You must past a minimum of 5 state exams; English, Mathematics, Social studies, Science and one additional regents exam.

By coming to school in NY for the first time as an 11th grade student, the global regents will be waived provided you pass the US history regents.

If your counselor has updated your transcript and see that you should be placed in the 12th grade, you should ask for that placement (you will not graduate in june, but you were still part of the cohort as a person who did not graduate with the class anyway, when they placed you in 11th grade). This way you would be exempt for both the Global and the science regents leaving you to pass the English, Math and US history regents.

You cannot take the GED (now TASC) in NYC until you have missed your graduation date. If you are part of this year’s cohort (you belong to the cohort based on when you started 9th grade anywhere in the world.