QCE assessment, explained

QCE ATAR calculator

Enter the subject results you expect (or already have) and get a rough ATAR. It runs QTAC's best-5 TEA rule over QTAC's own 2025 inter-subject scaling data — General subjects only, the pathway most QCE students are on.

Per-subject scaled scores are from QTAC's own 2025 ATAR Report (qtac.edu.au). QTAC does not publish an aggregate-to-ATAR table the way VTAC and UAC do — its ATAR is a rank against the whole eligible population, not a formula on one number — so the ATAR shown here is modelled from QTAC's published ATAR-band population data rather than read off a published conversion, and carries a wider margin than the VCE or HSC calculators. General subjects only (not the Applied/VET allowances), no bonus points or special consideration.

Your subjects

One must be English, EAL, Literature or English & Literature Extension — QTAC requires a C or better in one of those to be eligible at all. Your TEA is the best 5 General subject results; this covers that General-only pathway, not the 4-General- plus-1-Applied or plus-1-VET allowances.

Only General subjects QTAC published 2025 scores for are listed — Chinese Extension and Music Extension (Musicology) had fewer than 50 students in 2025 and QTAC reports no scores for them. Applied and VET subjects aren't on this list at all: QTAC's TEA can include one of those in place of a fifth General subject, but that variant isn't implemented here.

Subject	Raw	Scaled
English *	70	66.9
Mathematical Methods	70	84.5
Biology	70	56.8
Chemistry	70	71.0
Physics	70	69.3

TEA (best 5, out of 500) 348.55

74.07

estimated ATAR, roughly 69–79

* an English-group subject. Unlike VIC and NSW, QTAC does not publish a TEA-to-ATAR table at all — QCE's ATAR is a rank against the whole eligible population, not a formula on one number. The ATAR above is modelled from QTAC's published ATAR-band population data, not read off a published conversion, so treat it as rougher than the scaled TEA number it's built from — see the note above the calculator.

How a QCE ATAR is actually built

The best-5 rule

Your Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA) is the best 5 scaled subject results you achieved, added together, capped at 500. You need a C or better in one of English, EAL, Literature, English & Literature Extension or Essential English to be eligible for an ATAR at all — that's a gate, not necessarily one of the five subjects your TEA is built from.

Inter-subject scaling

Your raw result (0 to 100) is not what goes into that sum. QTAC scales every subject against how the students who took it performed across their other subjects — a raw 80 means something different in a subject that mostly attracts strong all-round students than in one that doesn't, the same principle behind VTAC's and UAC's scaling. QTAC calls the students' overall standing their "polyrank" and runs the scaling algorithm to convergence — 40 iterations in 2025.

TEA to ATAR — the step QTAC doesn't publish

In Victoria and NSW, a published table turns your scaled aggregate straight into an ATAR. Queensland's is different: QTAC ranks every eligible student's TEA against the whole population using a statistical participation model, but never publishes the TEA values themselves — only the resulting ATAR-band population counts. This calculator's ATAR figure is modelled from that public population data, which is why it carries a wider margin than the VCE or HSC calculators'. How QCE internal assessment works is its own guide.

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