Year 12 comparison table
Since the late 1990s all Australian states and territories (except Queensland)
have used a common measure to rank Year 12 students for university
admission. In 2010 the Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admission
Centres, of which UAC is a member, agreed that a common name for this
measure would be adopted: the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).
Therefore, if you are completing your Year 12 studies in 2010 or later
in any state or territory – except Queensland – and are planning to apply to
institutions in other states or territories, your ATAR remains the same.
For example, an ATAR of 81.00 in any state or territory is the same as an ATAR
of 81.00 from any other state or territory (except Queensland).
Queensland, however, measures Year 12 students using the measure Overall
Position (OP). The table below shows how the ATAR equated to Queensland
Overall Positions in 2014. This table should only be used as a guide to how
2015 ATARs and OPs will equate.
2014 Australian Tertiary
Admission Rank
(ATAR)
2014 QLD
Overall
Position (OP)
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
3
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
8
83.00
9
82.00
9
81.00
10
80.00
10
75.00
12
70.00
14
65.00
15
60.00
17
55.00
18
50.00
20
45.00
21
40.00
22
35.00
23
30.00
24