HS-PS3-6 | Ohm's Law and Circuits · NYS standard · Regents questions

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Analyze data to support the claim that Ohm’s Law describes the mathematical relationship among the potential difference, current, and resistance of an electric circuit.

Clarification statement: Emphasis should be on arrangements of series circuits and parallel circuits using conventional current.

Assessment boundary: Assessment is limited to direct current (DC) circuits.

Note: this is a NYSED-specific performance expectation that is different from the Next Generation Science Standards.

Reference Tables

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Regents Exam Questions

Released New York State Regents exam questions that assess HS-PS3-6 are listed here by exam and question cluster. Each link opens the question with its answer key.

Exam Cluster Question
June 2026 Physics Regents Flashlight Physics Question 32
Flashlight Physics Question 33
Flashlight Physics Question 34

Vocabulary

Terms from the Physics Glossary that come from this standard or from the released exam questions that assess it.

From this standard
  • circuit component
  • claim
  • conventional current
  • current
  • design solution
  • direct current (DC)
  • direction
  • electric circuit
  • electrical power
  • energy
  • evidence
  • field
  • mathematical representation
  • object
  • Ohm's Law
  • parallel circuit
  • potential difference
  • power
  • resistance
  • scale (of a model)
  • schematic diagram
  • series circuit
  • simple circuit
  • statistical analysis
  • support (a claim)
  • system
From released exam questions

Performance Level Descriptions

Every Regents exam question on HS-PS3-6 is written to match one of the performance level descriptions (PLDs) below.

Level 1: Given a description and/or schematic diagram of a circuit, identify the direction of the conventional current in the circuit, or given a description and/or data of a circuit, identify the corresponding schematic diagram for the circuit, or given a description of, schematic diagram of, and/or data for a series or parallel circuit, use evidence to support the identification of the circuit, or given a schematic diagram, description of information about, and/or data for a simple circuit, determine the potential difference, current, resistance, power, or energy of the circuit. June 2026 · Q34
Level 2: Given a schematic diagram, description of, and/or data for a circuit (simple, series, or parallel), identify a pattern among the potential difference, current, resistance, power, or energy of the circuit or an individual circuit component, or apply a pattern to determine the potential difference, current, resistance, power, or energy of the circuit or an individual circuit component. June 2026 · Q33
Level 3: Given a description, information, and/or data for an unspecified series or parallel circuit, draw the corresponding schematic diagram, or given a schematic diagram, description of, and/or data for a series or parallel circuit, use mathematical relationship(s) to describe the potential difference, current, resistance, power, and/or energy of the circuit or an individual circuit component, or given a schematic diagram, description of, and/or data for a series or parallel circuit, use mathematical relationship(s) to describe what happens to the potential difference, current, resistance, power, and/or energy of the circuit or an individual circuit component when change(s) are made to the circuit.
Level 4: Analyze data to support the claim that Ohm’s Law describes the mathematical relationship among the potential difference, current, and resistance of an electric circuit. June 2026 · Q32
Level 5: Perform statistical analysis on multiple data sets in order to make and support a claim about Ohm’s Law and the mathematical relationship among the potential difference, current, and resistance of an electric circuit.
Notice: PLD levels!

Resources

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NGSS Dimensions

Performance expectation HS-PS3-6 was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Science and Engineering Practices
  • Analyzing and interpreting data: analyze data using tools, technologies, and/or models (e.g., computational, mathematical) in order to make valid and reliable scientific claims or determine an optimal design solution.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
  • Electrical power and energy can be determined for electric circuits.
Crosscutting Concepts
  • Different patterns may be observed at each of the scales at which a system is studied and can provide evidence for causality in explanations of phenomena.
  • Mathematical representations can be used to identify certain patterns.
  • Energy can be transferred between once place and another place, between objects and/or fields, or between systems.
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