How is the Earth Science Regents set up?
THE LABORATORY PERFORMANCE TEST Since laboratory experience are an essential part of a science course, a portion of the Physical Setting/Earth Science Regents Examination is devoted to assessing laboratory skills. Tasks have been identified from laboratory experiments that you will have performed during the school year. These tasks, which represent skills that are expected to have mastered, change only slightly, if at all, from year to year. The performance portion of the examination is administered separately from the written portion, normally two weeks earlier. Arrangements for administering the performance exam are made at each school in accordance with guidelines set by the New York State Education Department. The scoring for each task is based upon accuracy. Values within a certain range are granted the full 2 points allotted to each task. Values within a slightly larger, less precise range earn 1 point. It is possible to accumulate a maximum of 10 points on the performance on the
