ATAR in Victoria: how VTAC calculates it from your VCE

How the ATAR in Victoria is worked out

1. Your VCE study scores. The VCAA produces a study score from 0 to 50 for each Unit 3 and 4 study.
2. Scaling. VTAC converts each study score to a scaled study score, from 0.00 to 55.00, to account for how competitive each study was. See VCE scaling explained.
3. The aggregate. The primary four plus up to two increments.
4. The ranking. Aggregates are placed on a percentile scale, and the highest group gets 99.95.

The primary four is your highest eligible scaled score in an English group study (English, English as an Additional Language, English Language or Literature) and the next three highest permissible scaled study scores. The two increments are 10 per cent of your fifth and sixth permissible scaled scores, or fixed amounts for things like unscored VCE VET or an approved higher education study. If you have more than six results, the six that give the highest ATAR are used.

The rules that limit your combination

• At most two results from the same study area grouping can be in the primary four, and at most three can contribute to the whole aggregate. Mathematics studies are one grouping, so Methods and Specialist can both count in the primary four, but General Mathematics could not be the third.
• Equivalent studies, such as English and English as an Additional Language, cannot both be used. Only the one that contributes most counts.
• Studies can be taken over any number of years, but institutions may take the length of time into account.
• VCE Vocational Major studies do not receive a study score and cannot be used for the ATAR.
• Non-scored VCE VET sequences can be an increment worth 10 per cent of the fourth score in your primary four, up to two of them.

What an ATAR of 80 means, and the 2025 conversion

VTAC's guide says the ATAR is a percentile rank that shows your achievement compared with the Year 12 age group. It is not pass or fail: everyone who receives an ATAR has passed the VCE. The aggregate can range from 0 to over 210 in exceptional cases. VTAC publishes the minimum scaled aggregate for each ATAR after the results; this is the 2025 table.

The 2026 table is published after results on 10 December. ATARs below 30.00 are reported as "less than 30". There is no ATAR of 100 because the ATAR ranks you against everyone in the age group, so the best result cannot beat itself.

Getting your ATAR in 2026

Register at resultsandatar.vic.edu.au, with your VCAA student number, before results day. The VCE results and ATAR service is online from 7 am on Thursday 10 December 2026 until 5 pm on Tuesday 15 December 2026. After that your ATAR is in your VTAC account if you applied through VTAC. Paid VTAC applicants receive an email from My eQuals to access their digital ATAR statement, which VTAC lists for 9 am on Tuesday 15 December. VTAC says the December offer round is on Wednesday 23 December 2026, at 10 am. Full dates are in VCE results 2026.

Interstate and other ATARs

An ATAR is accepted as equivalent in every state, because the states use a similar method and statistical cross-checking. Victorian students who studied the International Baccalaureate, or an older Victorian qualification, get a notional ATAR, which VTAC treats the same way. VTAC does not calculate ATARs for interstate students: it receives their ATAR from their home admissions centre.

Practise to lift your study scores

Your ATAR comes down to the study scores you earn, mostly in the November exams. Try today's Year 12 Maths, Year 12 Physics, Year 12 Chemistry or Year 12 Biology paper. Each is a short timed paper of 8 questions worth 25 to 35 marks, and the results page shows a predicted grade from A to E with typical cut-offs, not the VCAA's. The detail of study scores is in VCE study scores explained.

Common mistakes about the Victorian ATAR

• Adding up study scores. The ATAR is a rank of an aggregate, and the aggregate uses scaled scores.
• Expecting six full studies to count. Only the primary four count in full. The fifth and sixth add 10 per cent.
• Confusing the results service and VTAC logins. Your results service password and your VTAC PIN are separate.
• Reading the ATAR as the whole story. VTAC says it is one of many factors for most courses, and institutions may add adjustments such as subject or equity adjustments.

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