Test Information

Your school will determine when exactly you should take the Biology/Living Environment Regents. The test is administered in January, June, and August of every year.

Part A: Multiple Choice
30 multiple-choice questions that test your knowledge of specific factual information. A maximum of 30 credits is awarded.

Part B1: Multiple Choice
Variable number of questions that may be based on the student's direct knowledge of biology, interpretation of experimental data, analysis of readings in science, and ability to deal with representations of biological phenomena. You will be required to answer all questions in both sections of Part B. Each correct answer is awarded 1 credit.

Part B2: Free Response and Multiple Choice
Variable number of questions that may be based on the student's direct knowledge of biology, interpretation of experimental data, analysis of readings in science, and ability to deal with representations of biological phenomena. You will be required to answer all questions in both sections of Part B. Each correct answer is awarded 1 credit.

Part C: Free Response
Variable number of questions that may be based on the student's direct knowledge of biology, interpretation of experimental data, analysis of readings in science, and ability to deal with representations of biological phenomena. You will be required to answer all questions in Part C. Each correct answer is awarded 1 credit.

Part D: Free Response and Multiple Choice
Variable number of questions that will assess the student's knowledge of and skills on any of the four required laboratory experiences supplied to schools by the State Education Department. You will be required to answer all questions in Part D. Each correct answer is awarded 1 credit.

• Unit 1—Unity and Diversity Among Living Things
  • Unity of Life


• Unit 2—Maintenance in Living Things
  • Nutrition
  • Transport
  • Respiration
  • Regulation


• Unit 3—Human Physiology
  • Human Transport
  • Human Regulation


• Unit 4—Reproduction and Development
  • Asexual Reproduction
  • Sexual Reporduction


• Unit 5—Transmission of Traits from Generation to Generation
  • Foundations of Genetics
  • Some Major Genetic Concepts
  • Mutations
  • Applications of Genetic Theory
  • Interaction of Heredity and Environment
  • Human Heredity
  • Modern Genetics


• Unit6—Evolution
  • Evolution
  • Evolution Theory
  • Heterotroph Hypothesis


• Unit 7—Ecology
  • Ecosystems
  • Biosphere and Humans