An ATAR ranges from 99.95 to zero, and reports your rank position relative to all other students. It takes into account the number of students who sit the WACE examinations in any year and also the number of people of Year 12 school leaving age in the total population. If you have an ATAR of 70.00, for example, it indicates that you’ve achieved as well as or better than 70% of the Year 12 school leaver age population in the state.

The ATAR allows the results of any WA student applying for university admission interstate to be directly compared with results in other states. All states (except Queensland) report student rankings as an ATAR.

The Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC) is a company limited by guarantee, whose shareholders are Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia.

TISC provides the following services:

Processing of applications for admission to undergraduate courses at the above universities.

Scaling WACE results and calculating ATARs for students in Western Australia.