QCAA ATAR calculator (QCE)
Enter your QCE subject results to see an estimated scaled result for each subject, your best-five TEA (Tertiary Entrance Aggregate) out of 500, and an estimated Queensland ATAR with a likely range. Everything here is an estimate based on QTAC's 2025 scaling, not an official ATAR.
Estimate your ATAR from QCE results
Add each subject with your raw result out of 100 (actual or predicted), or your grade for an Applied subject. You can add one completed VET qualification at Certificate III or higher. Each result shows its estimated scaled result and whether it is in your best 5.
Set a target and leave a subject's result blank to see what it needs. Results you enter stay fixed.
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Estimated ATAR
An ATAR needs:
- A C or better in English (a raw result of 40 or more) (still needed)
- 4 General subjects (still needed)
- 5 results that can count together (still needed)
QCE scaling lookup
Pick a subject to see how QTAC's 2025 scaling treated it, and the estimated scaled result for any raw result.
Estimated scaled result
91.56
Out of 100, for a raw result of 80 in Mathematical Methods, based on QTAC's 2025 scaling.
Mathematical Methods in 2025
General subject, 12,011 results.
| Percentile | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 99th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | 64 | 76 | 86 | 93 | 98 |
| Scaled | 79.43 | 89.64 | 94.43 | 96.44 | 97.43 |
| Raw | 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 85 | 90 | 95 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scaled | 42.85 | 54.38 | 67.59 | 80.28 | 84.54 | 88.79 | 91.56 | 93.95 | 95.58 | 96.84 | 97.83 |
The first table is QTAC's (ATAR Report 2025). The second estimates between those points with straight lines; values below the 25th percentile (grey) are rougher.
VET qualifications in 2025
| Completed level | Scaled result |
|---|---|
| Advanced Diploma | 62.36 |
| Certificate III | 38 |
| Certificate IV | 51.84 |
| Diploma | 58.72 |
One VET qualification can count, in place of a fifth General subject. QTAC left the Advanced Diploma blank (8 results), so the value marked * is inferred from QTAC's ATAR Navigator.
Scaling reflects how strong the students in a subject were across all their subjects, not how hard the subject is.
Data: QTAC, ATAR Report 2025 (published February 2026). The TEA to ATAR curve is fitted to estimates from QTAC's ATAR Navigator. 12 subjects with fewer than 50 results in 2025 are not listed, because QTAC publishes no figures for them. AusGrader is not affiliated with QTAC or QCAA, this is not QTAC's calculator, and every result here is an estimate based on QTAC's 2025 scaling, not an official ATAR. Scaling changes every year.
How the calculator works
QTAC scales every subject's raw results onto a common 100 point scale, so results from different subjects can be added fairly. Its ATAR Report 2025 gives, for each subject, the raw and scaled results at the 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th and 99th percentiles. This calculator draws straight lines between those points to estimate a scaled result for any raw result. Below the 25th percentile QTAC gives no point, so those estimates are rougher. Applied subjects get one scaled result per grade, and a completed VET qualification gets one per level.
Your TEA is your best 5 scaled results: 5 General subjects, or 4 General subjects plus one Applied subject or one VET qualification at Certificate III or higher. You also need a C or better in an English subject, though it does not have to be in your best 5. QTAC counts General English subjects or Essential English, and General Mathematics subjects or Essential Mathematics, but not both.
QTAC does not publish how a TEA becomes an ATAR. We fitted that step to estimates from QTAC's own ATAR Navigator for hundreds of sets of results, and tested it on sets we held back. The range shown follows the range Navigator gives. QTAC says Navigator's estimates are not predictions, and ours are not either. This is not QTAC's calculator and QTAC has not endorsed it.
The calculator assumes all your results are recent and that this is your first ATAR. QTAC only uses results from the last five years, and getting a new ATAR needs new subjects. Scaling changes every year with the cohort, so your real ATAR can differ. For how subject results, the QCE and the ATAR fit together, including how to choose subjects, read how the QCE ATAR is calculated and QCAA results (QCE), and check QTAC's ATAR rules for the current year.
Planning for uni? See the ATAR requirements for Queensland uni courses.