VCE ATAR Calculator (Victoria)

Calculate your Victorian ATAR from scaled study scores. Enter your best English score and your other subjects — the calculator builds your aggregate exactly the way VTAC does, then estimates your ATAR from the 2025 aggregate-to-ATAR table.

VCE ATAR Calculator

Enter VTAC scaled study scores (0–50), not raw scores. If you only have raw or SAC scores, use the Study Score Calculator first.

How the VCE ATAR is calculated

Aggregate = best English scaled score + next 3 best scaled scores + 10% of the 5th and 6th scaled scores. The maximum aggregate is about 210. VTAC then converts that aggregate to an ATAR using the aggregate-to-ATAR table for your year.

Your VCE aggregate is the number VTAC ranks against every other Victorian student in your age group. Two students with the same aggregate get the same ATAR, even if they took different subjects — that is what scaling is for. Because the aggregate-to-ATAR table is rebuilt from each year’s cohort, an aggregate that gave 90 one year can give a slightly different ATAR the next.

Worked example

English 38, plus 41, 39 and 37 as your next three best, plus 10% of 36 (3.6) and 10% of 34 (3.4): aggregate = 38 + 41 + 39 + 37 + 3.6 + 3.4 = 162.00, which estimates to an ATAR of about 91.6 on the 2025 table.

Aggregate to ATAR — what you need

As a guide from the 2025 VTAC table: an aggregate of about 155 gives an ATAR of 90, about 170 gives 95, and about 120 gives 70. The exact cut-offs move a little every year because they depend on your cohort.

VCE scaling

Scaling adjusts raw study scores for subject difficulty and cohort strength. Some subjects scale up — for example, Specialist Mathematics and languages often scale up — while others scale down. See the full guide on the Subject Scaling Calculator page.

Last updated: November 2026.

People also call this a VCE calculator. It converts a VCE aggregate to ATAR — the same conversion as ATAR to aggregate — using the VTAC aggregate-to-ATAR table, so your aggregate and your ATAR always come from the same calculation.

Common mistakes

  • Entering raw scores instead of scaled scores. The aggregate is built from scaled study scores (0–50). A raw score of 40 in a subject that scales down is not a scaled score of 40 — check the scaling report for your year.
  • Counting the 5th and 6th subjects at full value. Only your best English score and your next three best scores count at 100%. The 5th and 6th scores count at 10% each, so adding them in full inflates the aggregate by up to 10 points.
  • Forgetting English. Your best English-group study must be in the primary four. Leaving it out, or counting a different subject in its place, gives the wrong aggregate.
  • Using another year’s table. The aggregate-to-ATAR table is rebuilt from each year’s cohort, so last year’s table will not give this year’s result.

What counts as English

VTAC’s English group includes English, English as an Additional Language (EAL), English Language and Literature. Your best score from that group is the English score in your aggregate — a strong Literature result can be your English score if it is your best English-group study.

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FAQ

VCE ATAR questions

The most accurate estimate uses your actual scaled study scores and that year’s VTAC aggregate-to-ATAR table. No calculator can be exact before scaling is published — use the result as a planning estimate.

VTAC adds your primary four scaled scores plus 10% increments, then looks up that aggregate in the aggregate-to-ATAR table to find the percentile rank — your ATAR.

It changes every year with the cohort. Check the current VTAC scaling report for that subject — the Subject Scaling page explains how to read it.