In 8th grade I took 3 high school level classes, they were US History, Living Environment, and Algebra 1. I received a 98 on my US History Regents, an 88 on my Living Environment Regents, and a 78 on my Algebra 1 Regents. I know that the 78 is a really low score, but will colleges look at that 78 and think that it’s really bad? I am thinking about taking it again this year in 9th grade, but I’m focused on Physics and Geometry at the moment.
Colleges don’t look at middle school grades, even if they were for high school classes.
I mean on the standardized tests, I’ve been told that the REGENTS exam scores appear on your high school transcript.
My son’s Regents scores are on his transcript, so it’s entirely possible that yours will be, too.
That said, I wouldn’t worry about it for a couple of reasons. First, if it was last year, scores were VERY low. Apparently the exam had questions on material that wasn’t in the Regents syllabus. It was so bad that our high school’s math department, whose usual policy is that the Regents exam is the final, decided not to count the score if it pulled down the student’s average. So, if colleges were looking, they’d see bad scores across the board, even from otherwise excellent math students.
Second, although probably more important, from everything I can tell, the only schools that look at Regents are the CUNY schools and, somewhat less, the SUNY schools. This makes sense if you think about it. If schools want to know how you did on your classwork, they have your grades. If they want to know how you did on standardized tests, they have national tests. Many states have their own systems of standardized tests, all of which differ. And private school kids generally don’t take these state tests at all. For admissions committees to start trying to make sense of and take into account the different grades on different states’ different tests would be crazy making and add very little additional, useful information.
In short, don’t worry about it.
I see, thank you.