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June 11, 2013 4:51 pm at 4:51 pm #609612mitzvahgirl613Participant
hey guys so im taking the global regent this thurs iy”H and i just need a few tips to calm down cuz i super stressed right now and i freaking out that im gonna fail c”V!!! im reallyyy nervous for the thematic essay!!! so please helppp me!!!!!!!!!!
June 11, 2013 5:14 pm at 5:14 pm #960450🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantmitzvahgirl613- it’s not that hard of a regent. There’s a trick to getting the multiple choice right, and there are about 17 total possible themes. Just prepare for the most commonly recurring themes and you should be fine.
June 11, 2013 5:22 pm at 5:22 pm #960451mitzvahgirl613Participantso what are the most commonly recurring themes? and do you know what the petition of right is?
June 11, 2013 6:35 pm at 6:35 pm #960452🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantOn my regent it was religion. You can check by googling nys global history regents and looking through old regents.
June 11, 2013 6:56 pm at 6:56 pm #960453mitzvahgirl613Participantk thanx but im rllllyy scared 4 it!!!!
June 11, 2013 7:02 pm at 7:02 pm #960454🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantNothing to be afraid of… If you don’t like your mark you can usually retake it in August.
June 11, 2013 10:03 pm at 10:03 pm #960455mitzvahgirl613Participantright thats true!! also about geometry is it true that that theres no curve for it this year?
June 11, 2013 10:09 pm at 10:09 pm #960456🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantI don’t think so… regents are always marked at a curve. Look at the scoring booklets on nys regents website.
June 11, 2013 10:29 pm at 10:29 pm #960457mitzvahgirl613Participantk thanx i hope so!!!!
June 11, 2013 10:39 pm at 10:39 pm #960458moishykMemberYou’ll be fine. Good luck! I took my science regents today and it was impossible and it took me a really long tie but i survived and i did fine! So just be positive and ull do fine!
June 11, 2013 11:08 pm at 11:08 pm #960459mitzvahgirl613Participantya but this has 2 essays on it!!!!!!
June 11, 2013 11:25 pm at 11:25 pm #960460VogueMemberthink of writing compared to spending hours chatting with your best friend about the essay topic. Not such a bad way to look at it.
June 12, 2013 12:01 am at 12:01 am #960461mitzvahgirl613Participantthats a good point! thnx!! i think the hardest part about global is memorizing all the info not so much the essays!!
June 12, 2013 12:11 am at 12:11 am #960462mitzvahgirl613Participantthats a good point! thnx!! i think the hardest part about global is memorizing all the info not so much the essays!! i mean also the essays are really hard but memorizing all the info from 2 years is REALLY hard!!!!!
June 12, 2013 12:12 am at 12:12 am #960463VogueMemberspend a few hours chatting to your best friend about it, and then the regent will simply feel like a continuation of the conversation.
June 12, 2013 12:30 am at 12:30 am #960464mitzvahgirl613Participantlol gud idea!! did u ever havta remmber 2 years of(what i think) practically worthless info that WONT take me through life??!!!!?!?!
June 12, 2013 12:45 am at 12:45 am #960465VogueMemberit will take you through life, without geography, it will be difficult in seminary.
I had issues at an internship because of difficulty adding up numbers, so if I focused on math more I could have done better.
It does apply. Trust me. Sorry if this isn’t the answer you like.
June 12, 2013 1:09 am at 1:09 am #960466mitzvahgirl613Participantits ok but its funny cuz some people were surprised that its 2 yrs of info!! did it use 2 be only 1 year?
June 12, 2013 4:40 am at 4:40 am #960467yehudayonaParticipantFirst, it’s not a regent, it’s a Regents Exam. There’s something called the Board of Regents, which I think is something like a board of trustees for the NYS education department. It’s named after them.
Regents Exams have been around for almost 150 years. At some point, I’m sure there was a one-year course on world history, but it’s been a two-year course for many years. You’re lucky that when you take the English Regents Exam, it will only be a one-day (3 hour) test. It was a 2-day (6 hour) test until recently.
I hope your writing on the essays is a lot more formal than your posts here.
June 12, 2013 2:32 pm at 2:32 pm #960468mitzvahgirl613Participantlol me to!!! omg that is crazzyyyyy!!!!!! i would never be able to manage!!!!!!
June 13, 2013 5:54 pm at 5:54 pm #960469mitzvahgirl613ParticipantI AM DONE WITH GLOBAL FOREVER B”HHHHH!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SUCH AN EXCITING DAY!!!!!!!! THE REGENT WAS MURDER!!!!!!!!!
June 13, 2013 6:06 pm at 6:06 pm #960470🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantStill two years of American History and PAD
June 13, 2013 7:20 pm at 7:20 pm #960471kkls45MemberWas it hard this year? How about the DBQ?
June 13, 2013 7:43 pm at 7:43 pm #960472the bombMemberit was OK. BUT THE THEMATIC ESSAY WAS IMPOSSIBLE!!!although i probably got like a 95!!!
June 13, 2013 7:45 pm at 7:45 pm #960473the bombMemberlol
June 13, 2013 7:56 pm at 7:56 pm #960474kkls45MemberThat’s amazing!!!! What was the thematic essay’s theme?
June 13, 2013 9:53 pm at 9:53 pm #960475the bombMember2 revolutions! i did the FRENCH REVOLUTION AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION!!I THINK I DID OK ON IT.
June 13, 2013 10:20 pm at 10:20 pm #960476kkls45MemberNot a bad topic! but usually I thought that when they give the revolution theme they only make you do one..
June 13, 2013 10:25 pm at 10:25 pm #960477mitzvahgirl613Participantthe thematic essay was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was sooo nervous for it for no good reason!!!!!!! i did industrial revolution and cultural revolution!!! i feel so stupid saying i forgot what the neolithic revolution is 🙂 but i thought and my whole grade thought the murder was murder!!!!!! what do u guys think of it?? the dbq was ok but i had no idea what any of the stuff were xcept for the railroad so i couldnt rlly add any outside info!!!
June 14, 2013 4:10 am at 4:10 am #960478Torah613TorahParticipantMy source says that it was a great test and they enjoyed taking it.
June 14, 2013 5:23 pm at 5:23 pm #960479mitzvahgirl613ParticipantNooooooo the last thing that it was was enjoyable!!!! Never!!!!! I didn’t enjoy it for a sec anD I meant the multiple choice was murder cuz it was!!! I was not prepared 4 this regent at at all I did like 3 regents and none of the regents was like this at all!!!!! Last yrs June 2012 was sooo gud I was hoping 4 it soooo much lol – the bomb 95 is amazing soooo plz don’t talk lol anyways my frend sed tht u cam get 6 rong on the multiple choice and 2.5 on both essays so that’s an awsum comfort!!! I’m not aiming fora 90 just to pass lol 🙂
June 14, 2013 5:37 pm at 5:37 pm #960480moishykMemberDid any of you take the living environment regents?
June 16, 2013 8:13 am at 8:13 am #960481jewishfeminist02MemberMy mom studied really hard for the Regents and then they were canceled that year because some kids stole the answers (this was in the 60s I think).
June 16, 2013 3:52 pm at 3:52 pm #960482moishykMemberbecause i took it this year and i thought it was hard…
June 16, 2013 7:26 pm at 7:26 pm #960483mitzvahgirl613Participantomg jewishfeminist thats crazy!!! but i wouldnt mind having it canceled even if i did study my brains out!!!!
moishyk-i feel for you my bio regent last year was murder!
June 19, 2013 10:59 pm at 10:59 pm #960484mitzvahgirl613ParticipantI PASSED GEOMETRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! even tho we took it today we got our grades while global we took last week and got the grades today!!!!!! ahhh omg its soo cool!!!!! finally doneeee!!!!!
June 19, 2013 11:16 pm at 11:16 pm #960485jewishfeminist02MemberMazal tov!
June 21, 2013 1:30 am at 1:30 am #960486mitzvahgirl613Participantthank you thank you thank you!!!!!! i am sooooooo happy you have no idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i reallly thought i was gonna fail c”v!!!!
June 21, 2013 7:15 am at 7:15 am #960487musicaldignityMemberI have a headache from all of these exclamation marks…Global and US History are really easy regents. Good luck with trig next year. I studied like an absolute maniac for that regent.
June 21, 2013 11:08 am at 11:08 am #960488kkls45MemberMazel Tov!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
June 21, 2013 12:52 pm at 12:52 pm #960489squeakParticipantjfem- the answers were published ahead of the exam in the new york times, IIRC. A few kids getting the answers happens all the time, I’d bet.
June 23, 2013 3:49 am at 3:49 am #960490yehudayonaParticipantIf you google “regents exam cancelled yeshiva” (without the quotes) and scroll down a bit, you’ll find an article from the Schenectady Gazette from 1989. The previous year, a yeshiva student from Queens was charged with stealing Regents exams and a NYC paper (I think it was the Post) published the answers to the chemistry exam, saying that it wasn’t fair that some kids with money could buy the answers.
A little more googling reveals (according to the Geneva Daily Times) that in 1974, a whole bunch of exams were canceled when students at Solomon Schechter broke in and photocopied the exams.
These days, the security is tighter, but of course it isn’t foolproof.
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