The positive-parity energy levels in the 157Dy nucleus are analysed by means of the core-quasiparticle coupling model. The decoupled rotational band structure of the spectrum is reproduced by the theory. The collective components of the lSTDy levels are shown. The calculated pick-up and stripping spectroscopic factors are compared with experiment.In the lSVDy nucleus the positive-parity states are arranged in a decoupled rotational band. The lowest state in this band is a 9/2 + one, and above it there appear 5/2 +, 7/2 +, 3/2 +, 13/2 + states with a spacing between them smaller than 30 keV. In the higherspin part of the positive-parity band the favoured states with the spins 17/2, 21/2 and 25/2 are located below the unfavoured ones with the spins 15/2, 19/2 and 23/2, respectively. The experimental scheme of levels in ~STDy has been presented in [1] where also Coriolis calculations with a few fitted parameters have been performed. In the present study the core-quasiparticle coupling model of D6nau and Frauendorf [2] is employed to the analysis of the positive-parity energy levels in ~57Dy. In the considered model the nucleon-core interaction Hamiltonian comprises the reduced matrix elements of the collective multipole moment operators coupled to the corresponding reduced matrix elements for the odd nucleon (see e.g. [3][4][5]). Since the t57Dy nucleus shows quadrupole and hexadecapole deformations, the E2 and E4 reduced matrix elements for the transitions between collective states of the core nucleus must be estimated. For this purpose the symmetric rotor model is used. The energy matrix which has to be diagonalized is: where hoo=41A -l/a, r is the dimensionless radial coordinate of the odd neutron, ER is the energy of the core collective state IR), ej is the spherical single-neutron state energy, and J is the total angular momentum of the odd-A state. The deformation parameters f12 and f14 are determined from the relations: teraction is treated in terms of the BCS method applied to the solutions of (1) with ER=O. Next, the rotational Hamiltonian is diagonalized using the deformed quasiparticle states as basis. The pairing gap parameter, A, is assumed to be equal to 0.66 MeV. This value of A is in agreement with the self-consistent cranking model results [7]. The Fermi energy is fitted to the low-spin part of the level spectrum, the best fit being obtained when the Fermi level lies between the third and fourth levels of the i13/2 family of deformed orbitals. The single-neutron spherical energies used in the calculations are shown in Table 1. The experimental energies of