See how your subjects can boost your selection rank
Select your Year 12 subjects and preferred Macquarie course to see how your results may contribute to your selection rank.
How to use the Subject Advantage Entry tool
- Search for an area of study you’re interested in, such as arts, business or health, or search for a specific course.
- Once you’ve selected a course, you’ll see the required subject categories. Every course includes an English category and at least two additional subject categories. Subject categories vary for each area of study, and some courses require a total of four subjects.
- Check the subject lists further down the page to learn which HSC subjects are included in each category and, if applicable, review equivalent interstate subjects or IB subjects.
- There’s no separate application process. If you’re eligible, you’ll be automatically considered for Subject Advantage Entry.
Eligible NSW HSC subjects
Listed below are NSW HSC subjects used in Subject Advantage Entry criteria. Subject and band score equivalencies for interstate Year 12 qualifications and IB Diploma are available via UAC.
- Aboriginal Studies
- Agriculture
- Ancient History
- Arabic Continuers
- Armenian Continuers
- Biology
- Business Studies
- Chemistry
- Chinese and Literature
- Chinese Beginners
- Chinese Continuers
- Chinese in Context
- Classical Greek Continuers
- Classical Hebrew Continuers
- Community and Family Studies
- Croatian Continuers
- Dance
- Design and Technology
- Drama
- Dutch Continuers
- Earth and Environmental Science
- Economics
- Engineering Studies
- English Advanced
- English EAL/D
- English Standard
- Enterprise Computing
- Filipino Continuers
- Food Technology
- French Beginners
- French Continuers
- Geography
- German Beginners
- German Continuers
- Health and Movement Science
- Hindi Continuers
- Hungarian Continuers
- Hungarian Continuers
- Indonesian and Literature
- Indonesian Beginners
- Indonesian Continuers
- Industrial Technology
- Information Processes and Technology
- Investigating Science
- Italian Beginners
- Italian Continuers
- Japanese and Literature
- Japanese Beginners
- Japanese Continuers
- Japanese in Context
- Khmer Continuers
- Korean and Literature
- Korean Beginners
- Korean Continuers
- Korean in Context
- Latin Continuers
- Legal Studies
- Macedonian Continuers
- Maltese Continuers
- Mathematics Advanced
- Mathematics Standard 2
- Modern Greek Beginners
- Modern Greek Continuers
- Modern Hebrew Continuers
- Modern History
- Music 1
- Music 2
- Persian Continuers
- Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
- Physics
- Polish Continuers
- Portuguese Continuers
- Punjabi Continuers
- Russian Continuers
- Serbian Continuers
- Society and Culture
- Software Design and Development
- Software Engineering
- Spanish Beginners
- Spanish Continuers
- Studies of Religion I
- Studies of Religion II
- Swedish Continuers
- Tamil Continuers
- Turkish Continuers
- Vietnamese Continuers
- Visual Arts
- Dance
- Drama
- Music 1
- Music 2
- Music Extension
- Visual Arts
- English EAL/D
- English Standard
- English Advanced
- English Extension 1
- English Extension 2
- Aboriginal Studies
- Ancient History
- Business Studies
- Economics
- Geography
- History Extension
- Legal Studies
- Modern History
- Society and Culture
- Studies of Religion I
- Studies of Religion II
- Arabic Continuers
- Arabic Extension
- Armenian Continuers
- Chinese Beginners
- Chinese Continuers
- Chinese in Context
- Chinese and Literature
- Chinese Extension
- Classical Greek Continuers
- Classical Greek Extension
- Classical Hebrew Continuers
- Classical Hebrew Extension
- Croatian Continuers
- Dutch Continuers
- Filipino Continuers
- French Beginners
- French Continuers
- French Extension
- German Beginners
- German Continuers
- German Extension
- Hindi Continuers
- Hungarian Continuers
- Hungarian Continuers
- Indonesian Beginners
- Indonesian Continuers
- Indonesian and Literature
- Indonesian Extension
- Italian Beginners
- Italian Continuers
- Italian Extension
- Japanese Beginners
- Japanese Continuers
- Japanese in Context
- Japanese and Literature
- Japanese Extension
- Khmer Continuers
- Korean Beginners
- Korean Continuers
- Korean in Context
- Korean and Literature
- Latin Continuers
- Latin Extension
- Macedonian Continuers
- Maltese Continuers
- Modern Greek Beginners
- Modern Greek Continuers
- Modern Greek Extension
- Modern Hebrew Continuers
- Persian Continuers
- Polish Continuers
- Portuguese Continuers
- Punjabi Continuers
- Russian Continuers
- Serbian Continuers
- Spanish Beginners
- Spanish Continuers
- Spanish Extension
- Swedish Continuers
- Tamil Continuers
- Turkish Continuers
- Vietnamese Continuers
- Mathematics Standard 2
- Mathematics Advanced
- Mathematics Extension 1
- Mathematics Extension 2
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Earth and Environmental Science
- Investigating Science
- Physics
- Science Extension
- Agriculture
- Design and Technology
- Engineering Studies
- Food Technology
- Industrial Technology
- Information Processes and Technology
- Software Design and Development
- Enterprise Computing
- Software Engineering
Macquarie-aligned language subjects
These are HSC language subjects aligned to modern and ancient languages relevant to studies at Macquarie University. This language set may be specified as a Subject Advantage Entry criterion for certain courses.
- Chinese Beginners
- Chinese Continuers
- Chinese in Context
- Chinese and Literature
- Chinese Extension
- French Beginners
- French Continuers
- French Extension
- German Beginners
- German Continuers
- German Extension
- Japanese Beginners
- Japanese Continuers
- Japanese in Context
- Japanese and Literature
- Japanese Extension
- Spanish Beginners
- Spanish Continuers
- Spanish Extension
- Classical Greek Continuers
- Classical Greek Extension
- Classical Hebrew Continuers
- Classical Hebrew Extension
- Latin Continuers
- Latin Extension