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Western Australian Tertiary Entrance Rank

What is a TER?
Who Gets a TER?
How Do I Find Out My TER?
So What are the Advantages of the TER?
TER Calculator
TEA/TER Summary Table
Australian 2007 Year 12 Results Conversion Table
Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA)

Entry into the public universities in Western Australia is a matching process of the people who want to go to university and the number of places that are available. To assist in this process, Year 12 students are ranked and places offered on the basis of this ranking.

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What is a TER?

A TER ranges between 99.95 and zero, and reports your rank position relative to all other students. It takes into account the number of students who sit the TEE in any year and also the number of people of Year 12 school leaving age in the total population.

In 2008 the TEA (Tertiary Entrance Aggregate) replaces the TES (Tertiary Entrance Score). Your TEA will be calculated and then converted to a TER, which tells you where you are ranked relative to other students. This will be the same position as a ranking based on your TEA, but the TEA is not able to convey this information directly to you.

If you have a TER of 70.00, for example, it indicates that you are equal to or better than 70% of the Year 12 school leaver age population.

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Who Gets a TER?

Anyone who would normally have a Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA) calculated automatically receives a TER.

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How Do I Find Out My TER?

All students are able to access their Year 12 results and TER at this website from late December.

If you have applied through TISC to go to university, TISC will also notify you in writing of your TER when the Universities Admission Advice Letter (UAAL) is posted to you in January.

If you have not applied through TISC to go to university, then you can apply for your UAAL to be posted to you.

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So What are the Advantages of the TER?

The TER directly reports a student’s position relative to other students.

The TER allows for accurate comparisons from year to year. The TER calculation takes into account the number of students who sit the TEE in any year and also the number of people of Year 12 school leaving age in the total population.

The TER allows the results of any WA student applying for university admission interstate to be directly compared with results in other states. All states (except Queensland) report student rankings on the same scale. In Victoria it is called the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER); in New South Wales and ACT it is the Universities Admissions Index (UAI) and for South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, the Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER).

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2007 TEA/TER Summary Table

The following table gives an indication of the minimum Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA) required to achieve at least a particular Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER). The table can be used to roughly check a TER calculation. The TER calculation below is deriving a TER based on 2007 Year 12 TES results, hence this is only an estimate. The actual TEA to TER conversion will not be available until late December 2008.

TER	Minimum TEA for TER
30.15	117.1
40.05	134.5
50.00	155.7
55.00	166.6
60.00	180.1
61.00	182.5
62.00	185.2
63.00	187.5
64.00	189.7
65.00	192.4
70.00	206.6
71.00	209.6
72.00	212.3
73.00	215.0
74.00	217.7
75.00	220.7
76.00	223.6
77.00	226.2
78.00	229.2
79.00	232.2
80.00	235.1
81.00	238.0
82.00	240.8
83.00	244.1
84.00	247.5
85.00	250.8
86.00	254.2
87.00	257.7
88.00	261.6
89.00	264.8
90.00	268.8
91.00	272.3
92.00	276.5
93.00	280.7
94.00	285.9
95.00	291.9
96.00	299.1
97.00	307.9
98.00	318.1
98.50	325.7
99.00	335.4
99.50	348.5
99.70	357.7
99.90	371.1
99.95	379.8

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Australian 2007 Year 12 Results Conversion Table

The aim of this table is to provide 2008 Year 12 interstate applicants with information about the conversion of their results across Australia. The conversions are based on 2007 results and should be used as a guide only. The conversions are based on a common index which allows comparisons to be made across states/territories and across time.

Most states/territories have decided to use this index to report an overall measure of student achievement, but with different names. South Australia and the Northern Territory made this change in 1997, with the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia changing in 1998.

As the table shows, the measures of overall achievement for Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia will be exactly the same for 2008.

A Universities Admission Index (UAI) of 81.00 in NSW and ACT = a Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) of 81.00 in SA, WA and Tasmania = an Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) of 81.00 in Victoria. This means that if you are undertaking your Year 12 studies in 2008 in one of these states and you are planning to apply to institutions in another, you will not have to convert your result. For Queensland applicants, the Queensland Studies Authority will provide TISC with an equivalent TER. The Overall Positions (OPs) shown below can be used as a guide.

The conversions for Australian data were developed by members of the Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admission Centres, by agreement of the Taskforce on an Australian Tertiary Admissions System. The Taskforce, with members from each state and territory, was appointed by the then Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs.

VIC ENTER NT, SA, WA, TAS TER ACT, NSW UAI	QLD OVERALL POSITION
99.95	1
99.50	1
99.00	1
98.50	2
98.00	2
97.50	2
97.00	3
96.50	3
96.00	3
95.50	4
95.00	4
94.00	4
93.00	5
92.00	5
91.00	6
90.00	6
89.00	7
88.00	7
87.00	8
86.00	8
85.00	8
84.00	9
83.00	9
82.00	10
81.00	10
80.00	10
75.00	12
70.00	14
65.00	16
60.00	18
55.00	20
50.00	22
45.00	23
40.00	24
35.00	25
30.00	25

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Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA)

From 1998 to 2007 the Tertiary Entrance Score (TES) was used to determine a TER. From 2008 the TEA (Tertiary Entrance Aggregate) replaces the TES. The TEA is the sum of the best four scaled marks taking into account unacceptable subject combinations. The TEA is out of 400.

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