About TER (ATAR)

Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR)

What is an ATAR?
Who Gets an ATAR?
How Do I Find Out My ATAR?
So What are the Advantages of the ATAR?
ATAR Calculator
2009 TEA/TER (ATAR) Summary Table
TER (ATAR) Frequency Tables
Australian 2009 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.

What is an ATAR?

An ATAR 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 WACE examinations 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) replaced the TES (Tertiary Entrance Score). Your TEA will be calculated and then converted to an ATAR, 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 an ATAR of 70.00, for example, it indicates that you have achieved as well as or better than 70% of the Year 12 school leaver age population.

For a technical explanation of how the ATAR is calculated, click here.

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Who Gets an ATAR?

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

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How Do I Find Out My ATAR?

All students are able to access their Year 12 examination results and ATAR on this website from late December.

If you have at least one scaled mark in a WACE course, TISC will notify you of your results in your Universities Admission Advice Letter (UAAL), available online at the end of December.

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So What are the Advantages of the ATAR?

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

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

The ATAR 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 as an ATAR.

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2009 TEA/TER (ATAR) 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 (ATAR)).

TER	Minimum TEA for TER (ATAR)
30.00	124.7
40.00	147.5
50.00	169.3
55.00	181.3
60.00	192.4
61.00	195.0
62.00	197.4
63.00	199.5
64.00	202.0
65.00	204.4
70.00	217.6
71.00	220.3
72.00	222.7
73.00	225.6
74.00	228.1
75.00	230.8
76.00	233.6
77.00	236.1
78.00	238.7
79.00	241.6
80.00	244.7
81.00	247.8
82.00	250.7
83.00	253.4
84.00	256.1
85.00	259.2
86.00	262.6
87.00	266.4
88.00	269.8
89.00	273.5
90.00	277.6
91.00	281.4
92.00	285.6
93.00	290.6
94.00	295.8
95.00	302.4
96.00	309.3
97.00	317.8
98.00	328.9
98.50	336.1
99.00	345.7
99.50	358.2
99.70	369.4
99.90	384.4
99.95	392.7

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Australian 2009 Year 12 Results Conversion Table

The aim of this table is to provide 2010 Year 12 interstate applicants with information about the conversion of their results across Australia. The conversions are based on 2009 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. 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 2010.

An ATAR of 81.00 in ACT, NSW, SA, Tasmania and Victoria = an ATAR of 81.00 in WA. This means that if you are undertaking your Year 12 studies in 2010 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 ATAR. 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, TAS TER ACT, NSW ATAR WA TER (ATAR)	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	7
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

Note: When assessing Year 12 interstate applicants for selection, tertiary institutions throughout Australia abide by the principle that if the applicant has fulfilled the requirements for eligibility for selection into all courses in their home state, they should not be precluded from selection into courses in another state (subject to ATAR etc and any specific course requirements).

Please note the following:

Eligibility for admission to the four Western Australian public universities requires fulfilling English competence requirements (see Admission Requirements);
Queensland Year 12 students not undertaking the standard tertiary entry pathway, ie those not eligible for an Overall Position, may not be considered for tertiary entry interstate and should contact the relevant institution for information;
Northern Territory and South Australian students are treated as the one cohort (ie both NT and SA students need to complete four HESS G subjects as part of their Year 12 studies) and students from these states should check eligibility requirements with the relevant Tertiary Admission Centre or the desired universities themselves.

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Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA)

In 2008 the TEA (Tertiary Entrance Aggregate) replaced 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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