Recent secondary education

Standalone school VET qualifications (completed certificate IV and above) will be considered for entry to QUT degrees provided you have completed Year 12, even if you don’t have an ATAR. Completed certificate III will be considered for entry to QUT diplomas.

Your VET study results are converted into a separate selection rank.

Selection ranks for completed VET study

Use the past ATAR/selection rank thresholds listed on our course pages as a guide to which courses you may be able to get into.

QTAC will convert your completed IBD result into a selection rank. You'll be considered for an offer based on this selection rank, or other recognised qualifications that you studied while at school.

If you completed the International Baccalaureate Career Certificate (IBCC) or if you failed or did not complete your IBD studies will receive a selection rank for QUT diploma courses.

Find more information about International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD) studies via the QTAC website.

You are considered a non-standard Australian Year 12 student if you are not studying the Queensland Senior and interstate equivalents or the International Baccalaureate Diploma.

Non-standard Year 12 includes:

• Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)
• Rudolph Steiner Education schools not delivering the ATAR curriculum, including those issuing a New Zealand Certificate of Steiner Education
• some home schooling, including Home Education Association students.

As a non-standard Year 12 student, QTAC will convert your results into a selection rank. To maximise your opportunity to get into your course, you must undertake an approved examination like the American Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). If you want to study a single or double degree with subject prerequisites, you'll need satisfy the prerequisites by passing the approved bridging subjects.

You’ll need to immediately notify QTAC once any of your results become officially available, including:

• delayed results
• delayed completion
• supplementary or deferred results
• change of grades.

Once you've notified QTAC, your application will be reconsidered for the next offer round selection rank requirements, if places are available. Those selection rank requirements for top-up offer rounds can be higher than the threshold.

IBAS is available to students who completed their IBD in Australia and will be sent to you by the Tertiary Admission Centre in your state where you studied your IBD a few days after the IBO releases your IBD results. If you completed your IBD outside of Australia, your IB Score will be used.

These selection ranks are diplomas courses only; ie they do not apply to degree courses.

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• Minimum of 2 IB Diploma subjects required (at either HL or SL).
• Maximum of 6 IB Diploma subjects (at either HL or SL) will be considered. If you have studied more than 6, your best 6 will be used.
• Extended Essay points are not included in aggregate.
• Marks are reported on a 7-point scale where: N = no grade; 1 = Very Poor; 3 = Pass.

If you have also undertaken SAT and/or ACT, you can also receive a selection rank from Completed US Year 12 and non-standard Year 12 below.

If you have completed more than three University Entrance (UE) subjects, the best three will be used.

Excellence – 4.0; Merit = 3.0; Achieved = 2.0.

If you have not achieved University Entrance (UE), your selection rank will be calculated as per Completed US Year 12 and non-standard Year 12 below

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• Incomplete Year 12 is not accepted.
• If you completed school in January 2016 and earlier, the composite SAT-1 score is the total of SAT 1: Critical Reading, SAT 1: Mathematics and SAT 1: Writing.
• If you completed school in March 2016 and later, the composite SAT-1 score is total of SAT-I: Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and SAT-I: Mathematics
• The Enhanced ACT Assessment was first introduced in October 1989 and may also be known as ACT Assessment or just ACT. Results prior to October 1989 cannot be used.
• Where SAT-1 and ACT achievement tests have been taken more than once, the best results will be used.
• Minimum of two and a maximum of 4 advanced placements (APs) may be used. The aggregate will be determined from the numerical values allocated to subjects where: A=5, B=4, C=3 (Pass), D=2, E=1. Where more than four APs have been taken, the aggregate will be determined using the best four results. Aggregate scores below 6 are not accepted.

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Qualifications deemed comparable with the GCE include:

• Cambridge Higher School Certificate and overseas derivates (Principal Level passes are required)
• West African General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level)
• East African Advanced Certificate of Education
• Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education
• Tanzanian Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education
• Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (Principal Level passes are required)
• University of Malta Advanced Matriculation examinations
• Zimbabwe ZIMSEC A Levels
• Malaysian STPM
• Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (results in the University of London GCE may be taken into account)
• Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level) (Level H1=AS Level; Level H2=A Level)

Qualifications deemed to be comparable with GCE A Level where A is the maximum graded awarded (ie A* grade is not used) cannot be assessed on these schedules.

Advanced Level: ranks are calculated on the basis that A*=6, A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1 and must include results in not more than three subjects at Advanced Level or the equivalent comprising a combination of Advanced, Advanced in Applied subjects, Advanced Subsidiary, and Advanced Subsidiary in Applied subjects.

Where results in the same subject are awarded at both Advanced and Advanced Subsidiary level, only one result in the subject will be counted in the aggregate, and this shall be the result that contributes the highest points value to the aggregate.

Advanced Subsidiary level results may be included in the aggregate and contribute the equivalent of half of a subject taken at Advanced Level A=2.5, B=2, C=1.5, D=1, E=0.5.

A Level in Applied subjects/AS Level in Applied subjects: ranks are calculated on the following basis:

• A Level in Applied subjects (Double Award) [12 units]: the sum of the two letter grades where: A*=6, A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1.
• A Level in Applied subjects [6 units]: A*=6, A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1.
• AS Level in Applied subjects (Double Award) [6 units]: the sum of the two letter grades where A=2.5, B=2, C=1.5, D=1, E=0.5.
• AS Level in Applied subjects [3 units]: A=2.5, B=2, C=1.5, D=1, E=0.5.

Cambridge Pre-U Principal subjects & Global Persepectives and Independent Research Report (GPR): D1,D2=6, D3=5, M1,M2=4, M3=3, P1=2, P2,P3=1.

Cambridge Pre-U Short Courses (Languages) result may be included in the aggregate and contribute the equivalent of half of a subject taken at Principal Level D1,D2,D3=2.5, M1,M2=2, M3=1.5, P1=1, P2,P3=0.5.

Progression/Advanced Diploma award: These awards can only be assessed on Schedule S4023 where: A*=15, A=12.5, B=10, C=7.5, D=5, E=2.5.

Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE): ranks are calculated on the basis that A=2.5, B=2, C=1.5, D=1, E=0.5 and must include results in not more than six subjects.

As certified by Umalusi with a minimum achievement level of admission to Diploma.  For current senior students a Statement of Results with a minimum achievement level of admission to Diploma issued by the assessment body (e.g. IEB) is acceptable.

Regarding the grading average it should be noted:

• Excludes the subjects Life Orientation and Mathematics (Third Paper).
• 7 = 80-100%; 6 = 70-79%; 5 = 60-69%; 4 = 50-59%; 3 = 40-49%; 2 = 30-39%; 1 = 0-29%
• A National Senior Certificate with an endorsement is assessed using a grade average of best four subjects. These qualifications are issued to candidates who are identified and registered as having special education needs where: 7 = 80-100%; 6 = 70-79%; 5 = 60-69%; 4 = 50-59%; 3 = 40-49%; 2 = 30-39%; 1 = 0-29%