The New York State Education Department has cancelled all Regents exams for January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the cancellation, the NYSED will propose modifications to diploma requirements for graduates this year. No decisions have been made towards the June or August 2021 Regent periods.
Are all students intending to take a January 2021 Regents Examination exempted from the associated diploma requirement? In order to qualify for an exemption from a January 2021 Regents Examination, a student must meet one of the three following requirements:
- • Be currently enrolled in a course of study that would ordinarily culminate in the
taking of a January 2021 Regents Examination and earn credit for such course of
study by the end of the first semester of the 2020-21 school year; or
• Between September 1, 2020 and the end of the first semester of the 2020-21 school
year, successfully complete a make-up program for the purpose of earning course
credit; or
• Be preparing to take a required Regents Examination in order to graduate at the
end of the first semester of the 2020-21 school year.
Students granted an exemption from any examination are not required to pass such
specific Regents Examination to meet the assessment requirements for any diploma
type (local, Regents, or Regents diploma with advanced designation).
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