Guide
How the indicative study score and ATAR estimate work
Enter the results your school reports for each task and exam, and see where your subject result and ATAR are heading — as a range, never a promise.
On a subject's Progress tab, the "Results" card lists the board's instruments — in Queensland IA1, IA2, IA3 and the EA; in Victoria the SACs and exams; the HSC, WACE and SACE equivalents elsewhere. Enter each result as your school reports it (mark out of the total, or the SACE grade) and the card shows an indicative study score, subject result, HSC mark, combined mark or grade, plus the scaled figure your admissions centre would use.
Entering a result
- Open the subject → Progress and find the Results card.
- Choose Enter result on the row, type your mark and the total (the total is pre-filled from the syllabus where it is fixed), and Save.
- Use the pencil to change it later, or Remove if it was entered by mistake.
What fills the gaps
Instruments you haven't sat yet are projected: the exam from your likely exam score range (the headline on the same tab), school tasks from your practice on the syllabus points they examine, or your subject average when there isn't enough practice yet. Because projections are ranges, the figure is a range until every result is in — and it stays labelled indicative afterwards, because boards moderate school results and put exam marks on a comparable scale.
The ATAR estimate
The Subjects page combines your Unit 3/4 subjects using the same engine as the Captivate Education ATAR calculators: each subject's figure is scaled with the admissions centre's published scaling data and aggregated the way that centre does (best four plus increments in Victoria, best five in Queensland, best ten units in NSW, and so on). It appears once enough subjects have an estimate, and lists any eligibility notes such as a missing English subject.
Watch out for
- Only the Victorian scaling data is official VTAC data; the other states' curves interpolate the published reports and are marked "interpolated, not official".
- Scaling is recalculated every year from that cohort's results, so last year's figures are a guide, not a conversion table.
- A study score is a moderated ranking set by the board — no formula turns a coursework percentage into one exactly. Treat every figure here as a compass.