Downloading and Using the Regents Exams June 2022
The Regents Exams June 2022 are the standardized tests that New York State administered in late June of that year across subjects like Algebra I, Geometry, Living Environment, Earth Science, U.S. History and Government, and the English Language Arts exam. If you are a student trying to review old material or a parent helping someone prepare, the most common question is where to get the actual exams and the answer keys, because the scoring guidelines from that session are publicly available through the NYSED website. You can download the exams and scoring materials directly from the New York State Education Department site. Go to the Office of State Assessment page and look for the June 2022 administration materials. Each subject gets its own folder containing the exam itself, the scoring key, the performance rubric if applicable, and the teacher guidelines document that explains how raters were trained to grade it. The files are usually PDFs. I spent about twenty minutes just clicking through the wrong subject folders in June 2023 when I was helping a student. The NYSED site does not always put the scoring guidelines on the first page you land on. You have to click into the specific subject area, then find the June 2022 collection. It is not badly designed, but it is not exactly intuitive either. Once you find the right folder though, every document downloads without issue and they are not password protected or anything like that.
The scoring guidelines document is the part most people overlook. It is not just a list of correct answers. It breaks down exactly how many points each open-ended question is worth, shows sample responses at different score levels, and sometimes includes rater commentary explaining why a particular answer lost points. That last part is genuinely useful. I once had someone argue that their student deserved full credit on a Living Environment open-ended question because the biology was correct, but the scoring guideline explicitly said the answer needed to name the specific hormone involved. Without reading the guideline, you would never know that detail mattered. One practical thing to keep in mind is that the Regents Exams June 2022 are not the only useful set of exams. The January and August administrations that same year are also public, and the August 2022 exams tend to be slightly more straightforward in their wording. Some teachers recommend using the January set for a first practice pass and the June set for a timed simulation because the June versions are closer to what students actually faced under pressure. That is just an observation from talking with educators, not an official recommendation, but it has held up. There is a limitation worth stating plainly. The online PDFs do not include answer bubbles for the multiple-choice sections. They are just the text and diagrams of the questions. If you want to simulate the full testing experience with scantron-style grading, you will need to print the exam and then manually mark it using the scoring key, or find a third-party site that has reposted them with answer sheets. No official source provides a ready-to-bubble version, and the NYSED never has. This means you lose the timing element if you just read through the PDF on a screen, because the real exam gives you three hours and a strict pacing requirement that reading on a laptop does not replicate. Print it out if you can, or transfer the questions to a piece of paper. It adds about ten minutes of setup but it makes the practice session actually useful.
For the math exams specifically, the June 2022 Algebra I and Geometry tests included a few questions that relied on the graphing calculator functions in ways that some students missed on the actual test day. The scoring guideline for those questions shows partial credit being given when the student set up the equation correctly but made a calculator entry error. So even if your answer was wrong due to a button press mistake, you may still have gotten points back depending on how completely you showed your work. That is worth knowing before you grade your own practice test harshly. If you are looking for the direct download links, search for "Regents Exams and Answer Keys to June 2022 Testing" on the NYSED website. The URL structure typically follows a pattern like ny.gov/pte/regents-exams-answer-keys-june-2022-testing with a section for each subject. Each subject page lists the exam, the scoring key, the rating guide, and any performance task materials. Bookmark that page rather than trying to navigate from the homepage each time you need it, because the links do move around between exam cycles. I have also found that the English Language Arts June 2022 exam, which uses the same informational text prompts as other years, is one of the more consistent ones in terms of scoring. The rubric is detailed and the sample responses are clear. If you are preparing for the ELA section in particular, the June 2022 materials are among the better practice sets available because the scoring guidelines leave very little room for ambiguity. That makes self-grading more reliable.
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The science exams, particularly Living Environment and Earth Science, tend to have more open-ended questions where the wording can feel loose until you read the scoring guideline. A lot of students lose points not because their science is wrong but because they did not use the required terminology. The guideline will flag specific words that must appear in the response for full credit. I would strongly recommend keeping the scoring guide open while you take any practice exam so you can see exactly what the graders were looking for.
