Exam results can cause stress for young people and their families, so it’s important to take steps to manage this. Keeping busy over the summer is helpful, as is having someone with you on results day to offer reassurance and help talk through options if your results aren’t what you wanted. This could be a friend, parent or tutor.
Using the Item Analysis tool can be useful to see how you performed on each question. It will display the number of questions, the item numbers (which can be a combination of letters and numbers), and the answers you bubbled in. It also displays the percentage of students who answered each question correctly. A higher percentage of correctly answered questions can indicate an easier test.
It’s important to resist the temptation to share your results on social media. Not only is this insensitive to your friends who didn’t do as well as you did, but it can also lead to you comparing yourself unfavourably against others. It can also be hard to recognise your own achievement, so it’s helpful to remember that you did well and to celebrate this.
SAT, Advanced Placement (AP) and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores are available at the city, borough, district, and school levels. These reports provide a broad view of academic achievement in NYC schools, and include data on student performance by student characteristics including English language learners (ELL), disability status, and race/ethnicity.
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