Your Admission Points Score (APS) is a measure of your performance in your National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination as it relates to the requirements for a particular programme to which you may apply.

Your APS is a score out of a maximum of 600. This tool will help you in calculating your APS to help you assess your eligibility for admission to a particular programme.

When calculating your APS, we always include the percentages obtained for English, as well as subjects required for admission to a particular programme. We exclude your percentages obtained for Life Orientation, Advanced Programme (‘AP’) subjects or any other subject that is not an official NSC subject.

For example, for a programme requiring Mathematics and Physical Sciences, we take the scores for English, Mathematics, Physical Sciences and the next best three subjects other than Life Orientation to calculate your APS. Results below 40% for any subject do not attract a score.