Latest official QTAC scaling data: 2025

QCE ATAR Calculator for 2026 Planning

Plan your 2026 ATAR with the latest official QTAC scaling data (2025).

Your subjects and results

At least five, with four or more General subjects. General results are out of 100.

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Add results for at least five subjects. You have 0 so far.

Every result is scaled with QTAC’s 2025 scaling and added up the way QTAC does it: your best five, from five General subjects or four plus one Applied subject or VET qualification, make your Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA).

This is an estimate for planning, not a prediction. QCAA sets your subject results and QTAC calculates the ATAR, released on Friday 18 December 2026, from 9am. QTAC doesn’t publish the TEA each ATAR needs, so that step is our estimate, shown as a range.

Scaling from the official QTAC ATAR Report 2025, the latest available · checked November 2026, re-stamped when QTAC publishes its next report early in 2027.How we verify

QCE 2026

When the real numbers arrive

External assessment
26 October – 17 November 2026
Subject results (myQCE)
Wednesday 16 December 2026, from 9am
ATAR release (QTAC)
Friday 18 December 2026, from 9am

The ATAR appeals period runs from 18 December 2026 until 28 February 2027. Check every date on QTAC’s ATAR page.

The basics

Where do scaled results come from?

QTAC scales every subject so results can be compared fairly. A scaled result reflects how students with that result did across all their subjects, on a 100-point scale.

2025 QTAC dataHow QCE General subjects scaledQTAC's 2025 raw and scaled results for 46 General subjects. The calculator also covers Applied subjects and VET.The full methodHow the QCE ATAR worksFrom subject results to your TEA, then your rank.CoursesQCE ATAR cutoffsWhat QTAC's course figures mean for you.

The method

How we estimate your ATAR

Two of the three steps follow QTAC exactly. The third is ours, so it comes with a range.

  1. 1Scaled results: QTAC's formulaQTAC scales each subject with a published formula, and its 2025 report gives five points on every subject's curve. Rebuilt from those points, our curves reproduce all of QTAC's 2025 figures to within 0.02.
  2. 2Your TEA: QTAC's rulesYour best five scaled results: five General subjects, or four plus one Applied subject or VET qualification, with QTAC's English and Mathematics rules applied.
  3. 3TEA to ATAR: our estimateQTAC explains how it ranks TEAs but doesn't publish the TEA each ATAR needs. We model QTAC's ranking with its own scaling method and 2025 figures, then check the model against what QTAC did publish. Of ATAR-eligible students, QTAC reported 70% had five General subjects in their best five, 16% an Applied subject and 13% a VET qualification; the model gives 70%, 19% and 12%.

Why the range sits mostly below the estimate

Raw results have risen across Queensland every year since 2022 while scaled results stayed flat, so the same raw mark has scaled lower each year: about 1.3 to 1.8 points lower at a mark of 80, in QTAC’s published figures. Our model of QTAC’s 2022 to 2025 data puts the effect at about one to two ATAR points around 90, and two to three around 70, the following year. The likely range allows for that happening again in 2026, plus the uncertainty in our model. Sources: QTAC’s 2025 ATAR Report and earlier reports, and its technical document, Calculating the ATAR in Queensland.

Our 2025 estimate

What TEA does an ATAR take?

The TEA our model needs for selected ATARs on QTAC’s 2025 data. These are estimates: QTAC doesn’t publish a TEA to ATAR table.

Estimated TEA for selected ATARs, from QTAC’s 2025 data
ATAREstimated TEA (of 500)
99.95about 488
99.00about 476
98.00about 469
95.00about 451
90.00about 426
85.00about 403
80.00about 381
75.00about 360
70.00about 340
60.00about 306
50.00about 278

Scaling covers 46 General and 25 Applied subjects, plus Certificate III, Certificate IV and Diploma, from the QTAC ATAR Report 2025.

Frequently asked questions

How does the QCE ATAR calculator work?
Two of its three steps follow QTAC's method: each result is scaled with QTAC's 2025 scaling, and your best five scaled results are added into your Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA, out of 500). QTAC explains how it ranks TEAs into ATAR bands but doesn't publish the TEA each ATAR needs, so the last step is our model of QTAC's 2025 ranking, which estimates your ATAR with a likely range. Your best five can be five General subjects, or four General subjects plus one Applied subject or one VET qualification at Certificate III or higher.
Are the scaled results exact?
As exact as QTAC's published data allows. QTAC scales every subject with a formula it publishes in its technical document, and its 2025 ATAR Report gives five points on each subject's curve. That pins each curve down: ours reproduces every figure QTAC published for 2025 to within 0.02. Scaling is recalculated every year, so 2026 results will scale a little differently.
Why does it show a range instead of one ATAR?
QTAC explains how it ranks TEAs into ATAR bands but doesn't publish the TEA each ATAR needs, because that depends on every student's TEA. So that step is our estimate: we model QTAC's ranking with its own scaling method and its 2025 figures. The range also allows for a pattern in QTAC's data: raw results have risen every year since 2022 while scaled results stayed flat, so the same marks have scaled lower the following year, and in our model earned a lower ATAR. That's why the range reaches further below the estimate than above it.
Which subjects count towards my QCE ATAR?
Your best five scaled results, provided you pass (C or better) an English subject: English, Literature, English as an Additional Language, English and Literature Extension or Essential English. English only counts towards the TEA if it's one of your best five. Essential English can't count alongside English, Literature, English as an Additional Language or English and Literature Extension, and Essential Mathematics can't count alongside General Mathematics, Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics.
Can an Applied subject or a VET qualification count?
Yes, one of them, alongside four General subjects. Applied subjects scale from your grade, and a completed VET qualification has one scaled result for everyone: in 2025, Certificate III 38.00, Certificate IV 51.84, Diploma 58.72. These usually sit below a strong General result, so they help most when a fifth General subject is weaker.
Why isn't my subject in the list?
QTAC only publishes scaling for subjects and VET levels with at least 50 students, so the calculator can't scale smaller ones. In 2025 those were two General subjects, Chinese Extension and Music Extension (Musicology), and the VET Advanced Diploma. They can still count towards an ATAR; the calculator just can't include them. It covers all 46 General and 25 Applied subjects QTAC published for 2025, plus completed VET qualifications at Certificate III, Certificate IV and Diploma level. Senior External Examinations aren't included yet.
When are QCE results and ATARs released in 2026?
Subject results come out on Wednesday 16 December 2026, from 9am, through the Student Portal (myQCE). QTAC releases ATARs on Friday 18 December 2026, from 9am. The ATAR appeals period runs from 18 December 2026 until 28 February 2027.
Does the estimate include adjustment factors?
No. Adjustment factors, such as subject bonuses or equity schemes, are added by universities to your selection rank for a course. They don't change your ATAR, so they aren't in this estimate.

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