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The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.
Students graduating in 2012 (who were 9th grade students in 2008) were the first cohort of students required to take all five Regents Exams with a passing score of 65 and obtain a Regents Diploma to graduate. [19] Previously, school districts had been permitted to offer a Local Diploma, with less stringent requirements than the Regents Diploma ...
High School of American Studies (HSAS) consistently ranks as among the top 100 high schools in the United States. Its most recent U.S. News & World Report ranking in 2022 puts HSAS at #8 in New York State and #49 in National Rankings. According to state test scores, 100% of students are at least proficient in math and 100% in reading.
NAEP's category of "proficient" on a math test given to eighth graders reflects students who do well on the test and are at twelfth grade level. [25] The fact that few eighth graders are proficient by this standard and achieve at twelfth grade level has been misinterpreted to allege that few eighth graders achieve even at eighth grade level. [26]
The 2022 PISA test showed that U.S. national average in mathematics remained behind those of other industrialized nations and remained below the OECD average. [222] Furthermore, one third of American students did not meet the requirements for basic proficiency in mathematics. [223]
The SCAT is used by the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) as an above-grade-level entrance exam for students in grades 2–8. Students in grades 2-3 take the Elementary SCAT designed for students in grades 4-5.
In some places, .25 or .3 instead of .33 is added for a plus grade and subtracted for a minus grade. Other institutions maintain a mid-grade and award .5 for the grade. For example, an AB would receive a 3.5-grade point and a BC would receive a 2.5-grade point.
Its four-year colleges offered a high-quality, tuition-free education to the poor, the working class, and the immigrants of New York City who met the grade requirements for matriculated status. During the post- World War I era, when some Ivy League universities, such as Yale and Columbia , discriminated against Jews, many Jewish academics and ...