VCE study score calculator
Enter your SAC and exam marks for a VCE study to see the grade for each one, where it sat in the state, and an estimated study score with its likely range. Or enter your SAC marks and a target to see the exam mark you need. Everything here is an estimate from VCAA's 2025 statistics, not an official study score.
Estimate your study score
Pick a study and enter your marks for each graded assessment, as marks or percentages. You need at least two. Each one shows its grade and where it sat in the state.
Enter marks for at least two graded assessments to see your estimated study score.
What exam mark do I need?
Enter your SAC marks and the study score you are aiming for. See the exam mark you need, as marks and a percentage, and the grade it implies.
Anything left blank is solved for too, assuming you finish at the same place in the state on each one.
Marks needed for 35
Unit 3 SAC
73 out of 100
73%, a grade of B+. Between 72 and 75 across the correlation assumptions.
Unit 4 SAC
76 out of 100
76%, a grade of A. Between 75 and 76 across the correlation assumptions.
Written examination
38 out of 60
63.3%, a grade of B+. The same under every correlation assumption.
An estimate from VCAA's 2025 statistics, not an official study score. It assumes your school's SAC marks match your moderated marks, and an assumed link between your results on each assessment.
Sources: VCAA, 2025 Grade distributions for VCE graded assessments, and VCAA, VCE Administrative Handbook 2026, Table 12 (VCE studies with scored assessment in 2026) for the weightings. AusGrader is not affiliated with VCAA or VTAC, and every result here is an estimate from VCAA's 2025 statistics, not an official study score.
How the calculator works
Every VCE study score comes from three graded assessments, usually SACs and an exam, each with a set weighting. For each one, the calculator reads where your mark would have sat in the state using VCAA's 2025 grade distributions for that graded assessment, which give the mark range and number of students for every grade from UG to A+. It weights those positions using the 2026 weightings in the VCE Administrative Handbook, then puts the result on the study score scale, which has a mean of 30 and a standard deviation of 7, capped at 0 and 50.
Two things are assumed, so treat the result as an estimate. First, it assumes your school's SAC marks are the marks VCAA uses. In reality VCAA moderates SAC marks against your school's exam results, which can move them up or down, and the calculator cannot see that. Second, VCAA does not publish how closely students' results on the three assessments move together, and that changes how spread out the final scores are. The estimate uses a correlation of 0.75 between assessments, and the range shows the result at 0.6 and 0.85.
The scaled score comes from VTAC's 2025 scaling, and the VCE ATAR calculator takes it from there. For the full explanation of study scores, read how VCE study scores work.
Planning for uni? See the ATAR requirements for Victorian uni courses.