For 2026 planning, the latest available QTAC scaling data is the 2025 ATAR report. QTAC scales General and Applied subjects, and gives VET qualifications at Certificate III or above a scaled result, so results can be compared fairly. Your ATAR comes from your best five scaled results, with at most one Applied subject or VET qualification among them. Here’s how General subjects scaled in that report, ranked by median scaled result.
General subject scaling
46 subjects, ranked by how well they scaled in the latest available QTAC dataset (2025) for 2026 planning. Tap a subject for its full scaling table. How the QCE ATAR works →
| Subject | Median scaled /100 |
|---|---|
| Specialist Mathematics | 95.27 |
| French | 94.98 |
| German | 91.49 |
| French Extension | 90.68 |
| English and Literature Extension | 90.57 |
| Chemistry | 90.36 |
| Physics | 89.79 |
| Mathematical Methods | 89.64 |
| Italian | 88.85 |
| Economics | 88.08 |
| Engineering | 86.87 |
| Japanese | 86.36 |
| Literature | 85.99 |
| German Extension | 85.7 |
| Philosophy and Reason | 84.53 |
| Chinese | 83.98 |
| Spanish | 83.94 |
| Digital Solutions | 80.34 |
| Study of Religion | 79.44 |
| Music Extension (Composition) | 79.18 |
| Accounting | 77.94 |
| Music Extension (Performance) | 76.4 |
| Biology | 75.25 |
| Aerospace Systems | 73.57 |
| English as an Additional Language | 73.29 |
| Geography | 71.88 |
| Modern History | 71.82 |
| Music | 71.69 |
| English | 70.12 |
| Psychology | 69.27 |
| Legal Studies | 68.57 |
| Ancient History | 66.79 |
| Earth and Environmental Science | 65.37 |
| Drama | 63.83 |
| Design | 63.28 |
| Business | 62.7 |
| Visual Art | 61.94 |
| Physical Education | 61.57 |
| Marine Science | 61.41 |
| Health | 59.87 |
| General Mathematics | 59.54 |
| Food and Nutrition | 58.12 |
| Agricultural Science | 57.75 |
| Dance | 56.35 |
| Film Television and New Media | 56.15 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies | 32.49 |
Median scaled results are out of 100, from the QTAC ATAR Report 2025. These are QTAC’s published 2025 figures: scaling is recalculated every year, so 2026 results will scale a little differently. QTAC doesn’t publish scaling for subjects with fewer than 50 students, so Chinese Extension and Music Extension (Musicology) aren’t in this list. They can still count towards an ATAR.
