This paper provides information about New Mexico High School Competency Examination (NMHSCE), a minimum competency test. Its purpose is to meet a state mandate. It will be replaced by the Grade 11 Standards Based Assessment/High School Graduation Assessment (SBA/HSGA) in spring 2011 as the state's high school exit exam. The NMHSCE was administered to the last cohort of grade 10 students in spring 2009. In 2011, the NMHSCE will only be administered as a retest for students in grade 12 and students who have exited from high school. The NMHSCE will continue as a retest for students who have exited from high school until spring 2016. [For the main report, "State High School Tests: Exit Exams and Other Assessments", see ED514155.]