SY 23-24 Mock Regents
Regents Readiness Support
Administering mock Regents exams provides valuable data for assessing student readiness, building student confidence, and improving student performance on the actual Regents exams. The Portal by New Visions offers support to leaders and teachers with analyzing mock Regents data!
Starting now, schools are able to download up to six June 2023 Regents exam and New Visions-provided answer sheets. Then in April, schools will be able to submit answer sheets to New Visions, and view their results in the Portal.
In the Portal, schools will be able to:
- View pass rates by exam, broken down by course-section and subgroup
- See which areas, standards, and questions were the most challenging
- Quickly identify students who would benefit from small group instruction or additional support
Spring 2024 Mock Regents Materials are available
Materials for administering and scoring the Spring 2024 Mock Regents are now available. Results can be submitted to the Portal in April. Details can be found in the Spring 2024 Mock Regents Exam Administration Guidebook.
The Process for Schools
Step 1: Download exam booklets and answer sheets.
Select from up to six June 2023 Regents exams to administer. Download and print the exam booklets and provided answer sheets in the Portal under Regents → Mock Regents. You must use the New Visions-provided answer sheets.
Step 2: Administer & Score
Administer the mock Regents exams to students, then score the constructed response and essay questions and bubble in points.
Step 3: Scan completed answer sheets to PDF
Using a printer in school, scan answer sheets into a single PDF file for each exam. Most printers have a “Scan to PDF” setting. Please verify student OSIS numbers are bubbled in correctly on each answer sheet.
Step 4: Submit PDF files via Google Form
Submit PDF files for each exam to New Visions. We will let schools know when their results are available in the Portal. They can expect a 2-3 day turnaround time.
Training to support administration and analysis are scheduled and listed below.
Support for Mock Regents
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Practice Regents Administration
New Visions will support the administration of Mock Regents beginning in March 2024.
Mock Regents offered this year will support student readiness for Regents exams in six courses:
- Algebra I
- Living Environment, Earth Science
- Global History & Geography II, US History & Government
- English Language Arts
We will use the June 2023 editions of these Regents Examinations as our mock exam in Spring 2024. School teams should set aside sufficient time to print testing materials, for students to take the exam(s), and for teachers to score constructed response questions and essays. Most essentially, school teams must set aside adequate time to analyze and understand the data in order to develop a meaningful plan for action in the remaining time before the actual exam.
NOTE: In order to focus limited resources on improving the Portal-based process for data analysis and planning, we will not support mock Regents in Geometry, Algebra II, Chemistry, or Physics in Spring 2024.
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Data Analysis and Planning
Data from Mock Regents will be available in the Portal beginning in April 2024, ready for analysis and planning.
We heard your feedback! In April 2024, expect an updated process for uploading your mock Regents data into the Portal. Our team will be on hand to support you through the process so that you can view your mock Regents data in the Portal.
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Professional Learning
New Visions will host virtual workshops on how to use the updated mock Regents Portal features in March and April!
- Session 1: Administering New Visions Mock Regents covers planning to give a mock Regents. This session is designed for Administrators and/or Regents coordinators.
- Session 2: Analyzing New Visions Mock Regents Data in the Portal covers interpreting mock Regents data. This session is designed for teams to attend together, including Assistant Principals and/or department leads attending with teachers who will support students sitting for exams this June.
Dates and registration links are posted below.
Spring 2024 Mock Regents Calendar
New Visions Trainings to Support Mock Regents
Training is offered for both administering and analyzing Spring 2024 Mock Regents.
| Registration Links* | Suggested Participants |
| Session 1: Administering New Visions Mock Regents
This virtual session covers planning to give a mock Regents. |
Administrators or Regents coordinators |
| Session 2: Analyzing New Visions Mock Regents Data in the Portal
This virtual session covers interpreting mock Regents data. |
Teams should attend this together:
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* Registration links will continue to be updated here and in the Spring 2024 Mock Regents Exam Administration Guidebook as the sessions become available for sign up.
Mini-Mock Regents Pilot
Selected New Visions projects will pilot a mini-mock Regents tool in SY 23-24.
New Visions is creating a mini-mock Regents tool with interim assessments aligned to shared curricula and drawing on past Regents items. This mini-mock sequence will culminate in the spring full mock Regents, thereby providing year-long support for student success on the end-of-year exams. School teams participating in specific math and science programs will be invited to participate in the pilot, providing mini-mock assessments first in early November and again in mid-January. New Visions will share more information with invited school teams to sufficiently plan for each mini-mock opportunity.
| First Mini-Mock | Second Mini-Mock | Full Mock Regents |
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| Late October - Early November 2023 | Late January 2024 | Late April - May 2024 |
New Visions anticipates rolling out the mini-mock Regents tool more widely in SY 2024-25.
Questions? Email us at mockregentsteam@newvisions.org for more information