ALBANY, N.Y., June 25 (UPI) -- New York State's education commissioner has set aside the results of last week's Math A Regents exam for seniors and juniors statewide.
Education Commissioner Richard Mills acknowledged the test was technically flawed but declined to say whether its defect lay in the phrasing of its questions, the level at which its passing score was set or in some other feature.
"I think we made some mistakes with this exam and it's up to us to identify and correct them," Mills told The New York Times.
The test is required for graduation and many educators had described it as inordinately difficult.
Early results of a survey by the State Department of Education showed only about 37 percent of the students who took the test on June 17 scored at or above the passing level of 55, compared with 61 percent in June 2002.
