This report shows the 2022 top students in each HSC subject, along with their ranking as assigned by the NSW Education Standards Authority.
Rankings are calculated from student HSC marks in the subject, or, where this results in a tie, from the average of the students' examination and assessment marks.
Students must achieve a band 6 or band E4 result in the relevant subject to appear in this list.
The number of top achievers reported varies from 5 to 20, according to the number of candidates taking each subject.
| 1 | Aboriginal Studies | Costanzo, Santina | 1 | St Scholasticas College Glebe Point | Glebe Point |
| 2 | Aboriginal Studies | Rigoni, Alexia | 1 | Cammeraygal High School | Crows Nest |
| 3 | Aboriginal Studies | Wooldridge, Liv | 3 | Cammeraygal High School | Crows Nest |
| 4 | Aboriginal Studies | Campbell, Cora Louise | 4 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus | Manly Vale |
| 5 | Aboriginal Studies | Rath, Lilly | 5 | Cheltenham Girls High School | Beecroft |
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| 6 | Agriculture | Karim, Faiyaaz Marzooq | 1 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 7 | Agriculture | Lee, Alicia | 2 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 8 | Agriculture | Saravanan, Tarun | 3 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 9 | Agriculture | An, Emily | 4 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 10 | Agriculture | Rana, Yasin | 5 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 11 | Agriculture | Touchard, Ethan | 5 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 12 | Agriculture | Gnanaseelan, Jonathan | 7 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 13 | Agriculture | Li, Edward | 8 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 14 | Agriculture | Napoli, Robert James | 9 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 15 | Agriculture | Coren, Gabriella | 10 | Hunter Valley Grammar School | Ashtonfield |
| 16 | Ancient History | Joseph, Bonnie | 1 | St Vincents College | Potts Point |
| 17 | Ancient History | Frank, Emma | 2 | Loreto Normanhurst | Normanhurst |
| 18 | Ancient History | McNamara, Luke | 3 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point |
| 19 | Ancient History | de Montfort, Andrew | 4 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl |
| 20 | Ancient History | Cullen, Benjamin Anthony | 5 | St Pius X College | Chatswood |
| 21 | Ancient History | Stalker, Mackley | 6 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 22 | Ancient History | Carrozzi, Sarah | 7 | Loreto Normanhurst | Normanhurst |
| 23 | Ancient History | Glass, Jack | 8 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 24 | Ancient History | Mifsud, Corey Anthony | 9 | Xavier College | Llandilo |
| 25 | Ancient History | Lee, Yu Ming Nicholas | 10 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park |