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WACE subject scaling 2026

How WA courses scaled in 2025, ranked by mean scaled score, straight from TISC's scaling statistics. Tap any course for its scaling detail - percentile tables where the cohort is large enough.

By The Polarbear Team3 min read

WACE subject scaling 2026
Data source: TISC scaled-score percentiles, report TR320C (2025) · 2025 data · checked July 2026How we verify →

Scaled scores - not raw marks - are what TISC adds into your TEA to build your ATAR. Here’s how every WA course scaled in 2025, ranked from the highest mean scaled score to the lowest.

Every subject's scaling

68 subjects, ranked by how well they scaled in 2025. Tap a subject for its full scaling table. How the WACE ATAR works →

SubjectMean scaled score /100
Modern Greek77.2
German: Second Language71.2
Chinese: Second Language70.1
Mathematics Specialist69.2
Italian: Background Language69.1
Spanish68.7
French: Second Language68.4
Japanese: Second Language68.4
Tamil: Background Language66.3
Hindi: Background Language66.1
German: Background Language65.9
Auslan64.9
French: Background Language64.9
Korean: Background Language64.8
Mathematics Methods64.6
Ancient History64.2
Literature64.2
Korean: Second Language63.8
Punjabi: Background Language63.5
Chemistry63.2
Italian: Second Language62.9
Physics62.7
Arabic62.1
Philosophy and Ethics61.9
Music61.8
Russian61.6
Vietnamese61.3
Indonesian: Second Language60.6
Politics and Law60.2
Religion and Life59.6
Persian59.3
Chinese: Background Language59.2
Economics59.1
Computer Science58.7
Human Biology58.6
Drama58.4
English57.8
Career and Enterprise57.5
Japanese: Background Language57.5
Biology57.3
Accounting and Finance57.1
Children; Family and the Community57.1
Modern History56.8
Psychology56.8
Visual Arts56.7
Aviation56.2
Physical Education Studies56.2
Materials Design and Technology56
Indonesian: Background Language55.7
Design55.6
Geography55.4
Dance55.3
Mathematics Applications55.3
Business Management and Enterprise55.2
Food Science and Technology55.2
Sinhala55.1
Earth and Environmental Science54.9
Engineering Studies54.9
Outdoor Education54.7
Marine and Maritime Studies54.5
Media Production and Analysis53.9
English as an Additional Language or Dialect53.6
Integrated Science51.9
Applied Information Technology51.4
Health Studies51.4
Chinese: First Language49.7
Agribusiness47.8
Agricultural Science and Technology44.2

Mean scaled scores are out of 100, from the TISC 2025 Course/Subject Statistics Summary (TR320C). This is not a raw-mark conversion - open a course for its percentile distribution. Some interstate-language courses have very small cohorts, so their means come from only a handful of students - open a course to see its candidate count.

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