ATAR calculator for New South Wales.
Best 2 units of English + best 8 other units. The estimate applies the UAC counting rules and UAC’s published 2025 scaling data.
Calculated by
UAC
What counts
5 subjects (10 units)
English
Required
Marks you enter
HSC mark / 100
The rule, in detail
Your ATAR uses 10 units: your best 2 units of English (even if they are your lowest) plus your best 8 units from your remaining courses. At least four subject areas must be completed to be eligible.
What else matters in New South Wales
- Your ATAR uses 10 units: your best 2 units of English plus your best 8 units from your remaining courses. English counts even if it is your weakest subject.
- You need at least four subject areas to be eligible, but the aggregate can be drawn from fewer if you take extension courses.
- Courses can be accumulated over five years. If you repeat a course, only the latest satisfactory attempt is used, even if it is lower.
- Extension courses are one unit each. Mathematics Extension 1 counts as two units when it is taken with Mathematics Extension 2.
Subjects that meet the English requirement
Select one of these in the calculator. Two units of English must be included in your 10 units.
How this estimate is produced
We place your reported mark in the 2025 course distribution, read the matching scaled mark, and apply the UAC counting rule. Uses UAC’s published 2025 course scaling distributions and aggregate-to-ATAR table.
Confidence
Higher confidence: this estimate uses local scaling distributions and the local aggregate-to-ATAR table.