The Record of Student Achievement (RoSA)

The Record of School Achievement (RoSA)

The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) issues the Record of School Achievement (RoSA) to eligible students who leave school before completing the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

The RoSA is a cumulative credential, meaning it contains a student’s record of academic achievement up until the date they leave school. This could be between the end of Year 10 up until and including some results from Year 12.

The RoSA records completed Stage 5 (Year 10) and Preliminary Stage 6 (Year 11) courses and grades, HSC (Year 12) results, and where applicable participation in any uncompleted Preliminary Stage 6 courses or HSC courses.

The RoSA is useful to students leaving school prior to the HSC because they can show it to potential employers or places of further learning.

The RoSA is also available to students who, from 2020, have not demonstrated the HSC minimum standard to receive their HSC.

Eligibility for a RoSA

To be eligible for a RoSA, students must have:

• Completed the mandatory curriculum requirements for Years 7 to 10.

• Attended a government school, an accredited non-government school or a recognised school outside NSW.

• Completed courses of study that satisfy Education Standards’ curriculum and assessment requirements for the RoSA.

• Complied with the requirements from the Education Act.

Receiving the RoSA

Schools are responsible for requesting a RoSA through the enrolments section in Schools Online. Once this has been completed, NESA will send a PDF of the RoSA to student’s Students Online account. Students cannot directly request a RoSA themselves. 

We strongly encourage all students to set up their Students Online account at the start of Year 10.

Schools are able to generate an eRecord and check the student’s course information is correctly recorded. This online eRecord can be used as an interim result report until the formal RoSA credential is delivered to the student’s Students Online account.

At any time, all students in Years 11 and 12 can access an online eRecord to provide potential employers when seeking casual work via their Students Online account.

Students who remain at school to complete their HSC will not receive a RoSA.

View examples of RoSA credentials

RoSA reporting and grades

The RoSA shows a student’s comprehensive record of academic achievement, which includes:

• completed courses and the awarded grade or mark

• courses a student has participated in but did not complete before leaving school

• results of any minimum standard literacy and numeracy tests that may have been sat

• date the student left school.

It includes an A to E grade for all Stage 5 (Year 10) and Preliminary Stage 6 (Year 11) courses, the student has satisfactorily completed.  

Grades are:

• based on student achievement in their assessment work

• submitted to us by the school in Term 4

• monitored by NESA for fairness and consistency.

View examples of RoSA credentials

Successful completed Vocational Educational and Training (VET) and Life Skills course are reported differently to graded courses.

Life Skills

Students with disability can complete the Life Skills curriculum option. Students who leave school before completing their HSC, but who have satisfactorily completed Year 11 or Year 10 Life Skills courses, can receive a RoSA.

For every satisfactorily completed Life Skills course an accompanying Profile of Student Achievement is included with the RoSA to provide students with more details of their achievements from each course.

Students who don’t qualify for a RoSA

Students who leave school before finishing Year 10 are not eligible for a RoSA. If students leave after Year 10 and still don’t meet RoSA requirements they will be issued with a Transcript of Study.

The Transcript of Study contains the same information as the RoSA for courses satisfactorily completed.

Schools must let us know when a student leaves school via Schools Online.

While formal RoSA credentials are for school leavers, all Years 11 and 12 students will be able to access their cumulative academic results, the courses they are enrolled in and print an eRecord via their Students Online account.

School attendance

A principal may determine that, due to absence, course completion criteria may not be met. To receive a RoSA, students must attend school until the final day of Year 10. They must also complete the following mandatory Years 7-10 curriculum requirements.

• English: NESA’s syllabus must be studied substantially throughout Years 7–10. By the end of Year 10, 400 hours need to be completed.

• Mathematics: NESA’s syllabus must be studied substantially throughout Years 7–10. By the end of Year 10, 400 hours need to be completed.

• Science: NESA’s syllabus must be studied substantially throughout Years 7–10. By the end of Year 10, 400 hours need to be completed.

• Human Society and its Environment: NESA’s syllabus must be studied substantially throughout Years 7–10. By the end of Year 10, 400 hours need to be completed. This must include 100 hours each of History and Geography in each Stage.

• Languages Other than English: 100 hours to be completed in one language over one continuous 12-month period between Years 7–10 but preferably in Years 7–8.

• Technological and Applied Studies: NESA’s Technology (mandatory) Years 7–8 syllabus to be studied for 200 hours.

• Creative Arts: Two hundred hours to be completed, consisting of  NESA’s 100-hour mandatory courses in each of Visual Arts and Music. 

• Personal Development, Health and Physical Education: NESA’s mandatory 300-hour course to be completed. This integrated course is to be studied in each of Years 7–10.

‘N’ Determinations

If students don’t complete a course’s requirements they will receive an ‘N’ determination. Students are warned via a letter from their school if it looks like they might receive an ‘N’ determination. This aims to give the student time to complete the course requirements and rectify the problem.

If a student receives an ‘N’ determination in a mandatory curriculum requirement course, they won’t be eligible for the RoSA. If they leave school, they will receive a Transcript of Study that will list the mandatory course(s) that received an ‘N’ determination. If a student is given an ‘N’ determination in a non-mandatory course, the course will not appear on their RoSA or Transcript of Study.

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