throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s vocational education regents exams were approved and administered. these included, but were not limited to, agricultural science, costume draping, and salesmanship. by 1970 the number and types of regents exams changed to reflect the changes in high school curriculum: vocational exams were discontinued, and the sheer number of exams were either dropped or consolidated as the curricular emphasis trended toward comprehensive examinations rather than the singularly focused tests of the past. this trend continued into the twenty-first century, with the cancellation of foreign language exams in 2010 and 2011.