New York Regents—Math Courses I–III (NY1)
New York Regents Examinations have been in existence since the early 1960's. Although they pre-date the current standards in assessment and math curriculum, they have been modified through the years and remain among the most well-known and respected measures of student achievement.
Regents exams are given three times a year for the standard course of study (Math courses I, II, and III). Each exam consists of 42 problems and includes multiple-choice, short answer, multiple-step, and extended answer questions, as well as constructions and proofs. Students who successfully pass the exams earn coveted Regents Diplomas.
The NY1 database contains all problems that have appeared in Course I–III Regents Exams since 1986, and it is updated annually to include new problems. Due to planned changes in the Regents Exams, the problems are reorganized by type and topic. This also increases their usefulness for regular classroom instruction, since focus can be on specific topics instead of entire exams. (The problems are cross-referenced in case you want to recreate an actual exam.)
Currently, there are more than 4100 problems and 600 diagrams in the NY1 database, including about 1600 short answer problems, 1800 multiple-choice problems, and a variety of geometry constructions and proofs. Perhaps the greatest attribute of this module—and one that attracts many users outside of New York—is the multitude of problems and topics that are not sufficiently covered in many textbooks. These topics include:
- Frequency tables and histograms
- Boolean logic and logic tables
- Transformations
- Defined binary operations
- Elementary probability
- Combinations/permutations