Nys regents exam calendar

How it works

Regents Examinations are New York State high-school exams. NYSED’s Office of State Assessment issues the schedule. There are three administration periods in a typical year: a January window, a longer June window, and a short August window. Students must verify with their schools the exact times they are to report. The state schedule names the days and the statewide start hours. The school names the room and the arrival.

For the 2026 administrations, NYSED’s directions set January and June exams at 9:15 a.m. or 1:15 p.m., and August exams at 8:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m. Uniform statewide admission deadlines — the last minute a school must still seat a late student — are 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in January and June, and 9:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. in August. Those deadlines are not the start times. Arriving at the deadline is already late for a calm start.

January 2026 ran Tuesday, January 20 through Friday, January 23. June 2026 exam days included June 9, 10, 17, 18, and 23–25. August 2026 was Tuesday, August 18 and Wednesday, August 19. January 2027 is set for Tuesday, January 26 through Friday, January 29. June and August 2027 dates are on the same NYSED memos. A school photocopied calendar is useful only if it matches this year’s memo.

Three windows, and the work they create

June is the large window: many subjects, rating days mixed among exam days, and a school building whose ordinary teaching timetable is partly suspended. January is a short winter window. August is two days, aimed at summer school and retakes, with earlier clock starts than January and June. Teachers, proctors, counselors, and custodians work those days on the exam timetable, not on the ordinary bell schedule. Students who also hold jobs have to treat an exam day as a workday they cannot trade.

January: a four-day winter window near the end of the month. June: the main window near the end of the month, with rating days on which no state exam is given. August: two days, with morning and afternoon sessions on an earlier clock than January and June.

Your school: report time, room, and which subject you sit, taken from the school, not from a friend’s memory. A job after school does not move an afternoon exam. Ask for the day off as soon as the school names your subjects. August collides with summer work: the 8:30 a.m. start is an early clock if you also close a shop at night. Do not schedule a shift that overlaps the session, the admission deadline, or the time NYSED requires students to remain in the room. The exam calendar is the school’s work calendar for those weeks. The other job is the one that has to move.

The state names the day. The school names the chair. Your other employer names neither, and cannot be the one you try to please first.