YKS Net and Score Calculator (SAY, EA, SÖZ, DİL)

How it is calculated

The Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS) has three sessions: the Basic Proficiency Test (TYT), the Field Proficiency Tests (AYT) and the Foreign Language Test (YDT). By the 2026-YKS guide the TYT takes 165, the AYT 180 and the YDT 120 minutes; the TYT has Turkish 40, Social Sciences 20, Basic Mathematics 40 and Science 20 questions; the AYT has four tests of 40 questions and the YDT 80 (Table 1B). Scoring is in section 3.10.1: the net becomes a standard score with the final-year students’ mean and SD, the standard scores are added with the weights of Tables 1C and 1E, and the weighted scores are converted to the 100–500 scale. The nets are exact. The standard scores use the test means in the “Sayısal Bilgiler” (statistics) document ÖSYM publishes with each year’s results (2026-YKS, 21 Jul 2026); a new exam has different means, so these are estimates. The weighted-score distribution the last step needs is not published, so no 100–500 score is computed here. There is no fixed points requirement for choosing programmes: by the guide’s Table 1F (p. 49) associate-degree programmes need a computed TYT score and centrally placed bachelor’s programmes a computed score in the relevant score type; a TYT score is computed for everyone with a raw score of 0.5 in Turkish or Basic Mathematics (Table 1D). Programmes such as law, medicine, engineering and teaching also require a minimum ranking (Table 1G).

1. In each test a quarter of the wrong answers is taken from the correct ones: the net (raw score). In the AYT you answer your score type’s tests: Mathematics and Science for SAY, Mathematics and Turkish Literature-Social Sciences-1 for EA, Turkish Literature-Social Sciences-1 and Social Sciences-2 for SÖZ, the YDT for DİL.
2. A score needs a raw score of 0.5 in TYT Turkish or Basic Mathematics, and in at least one of the score type’s two field tests (the YDT for DİL) (Table 1D).
3. Each test’s net (each part’s in the Science and Social tests) becomes a standard score with mean 50 and SD 10, using the final-year students’ mean and SD. The values ÖSYM published for 2026-YKS are used here, so the result is an estimate.
4. The standard scores are added with the weights of Tables 1C and 1E: first A-TYT, then the weighted score of your score type. Table 1E’s TYT column is a single weight; the guide does not say which TYT quantity it applies to, so here it is assumed to apply to A-TYT (0.40 × A-TYT).
5. ÖSYM turns the weighted scores into the 100–500 scale; the details of that conversion are not published, so the page stops at the weighted score. For the placement score, OBP × 0.12 is added.

Example

TYT Turkish 30 correct, 6 wrong: net 30 − 6 ÷ 4 = 28.5. AYT Mathematics 20 correct, 8 wrong: net 20 − 8 ÷ 4 = 18. The Turkish standard score is 50 + 10 × (28.5 − 20.5) ÷ 8.4.

Frequently asked questions

Source

• ÖSYM 2026-YKS guide (PDF): 3.4 session times (p. 26), 3.10.1 scoring (p. 29), 4.1–4.2 OBP (pp. 32–33), Table 1B question counts (p. 46), Tables 1C and 1D (p. 47), Table 1E weights (p. 48), Tables 1F and 1G choice requirements (p. 49)
• ÖSYM, 2026-YKS result statistics (PDF), p. 3: test means and SDs (final-year candidates)
• ÖSYM, 2026-YKS note on the scoring (cancelled questions)
• ÖSYM, 2026-YKS results announcement