Earth and Space Sciences Regents conversion chart — raw score to scale score, session by session

On the August 2026 administration it took 21 raw points out of 50 to reach a scale score of 65. That number belongs to that sitting and to no other: across the 5 published Earth and Space Sciences charts we hold, the raw points needed for a 65 have ranged from 21 to 24. Use the calculator above with the exact administration your child sat.

No. NYSED publishes a conversion chart only after an administration has been scored, so no chart exists for a sitting that has not happened. The charts here run from June 2025 to August 2026. If you want to know how much the requirement has moved between sittings, the curve history further down this page shows the raw points needed for a 65 at every published administration — which is the honest version of that question.

Yes, where NYSED prints the column — and the tool reports it exactly as printed rather than working it out from the scale score. Inside one chart the levels never overlap: a given scale score belongs to exactly one level. What moves is the chart. Across the 5 Earth and Space Sciences charts that carry the column, the top of the Level 3 band has sat at 75, 76 depending on the administration, the same on every published chart. A level worked out from a generic table would still be wrong here, because that table would have to guess which chart it came from.. The level is read from the row your raw score falls on, or it is not shown.

5 of them, from June 2025 to August 2026. Sessions earlier than June 2014 exist only as PDFs on the NYSED site and are not covered here. The administrations cancelled around the pandemic — June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 — are absent because they were never held, and the special June 2021 administration, where it applies, is labelled as such rather than folded in with the ordinary sittings.

Across the 5 published administrations, the raw points needed for a 65 have ranged from 21 to 24 — a spread of 3 points. The curve history below shows the same requirement as a share of the paper, which is the view that survives a change in the size of the exam. What none of this supports is a claim about the next sitting.

Because those administrations never took place: June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 were cancelled around the pandemic. The lines break rather than jumping the gap — the drawing code emits a new segment whenever two points are not consecutive sittings — because joining them would draw a data point that does not exist. Where a special administration was held, it is labelled rather than treated as an ordinary session.

Yes. The whole dataset — this exam and every other one — is downloadable as CSV from the links in the curve history below, and the figures are NYSED’s, reproduced as published. Each row of the session table links to the NYSED file it came from, so anything here can be checked against the source in one click.

From the conversion chart spreadsheets NYSED publishes on nysedregents.org — 5 files for this exam alone, each linked from its own result in the calculator. They are re-downloaded and re-parsed automatically, and nothing is published if a checksum moves, a file changes shape, or the reference values stop matching. Last verified September 7, 2026.