Tourism Information and Communications Technology Primary Industries Sport and Recreation ATAR The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) is a ranking awarded to most students achieving a Senior Secondary Certificate of Education in each state and territory of Australia, except Queensland until the 2020-21 admission cycle, for the purposes of university admission. The Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC) calculates and awards the ATAR in Western Australia. It is a rank relative to all other school-leaving aged people in Western Australia from 99.95 to 0.00. It represents the percentage of school-leaving aged people in Western Australia that a student has achieved at an equal or higher standard, including those who do not sit the WACE or an equivalent school-leaving certificate. For example, an ATAR of 70.00 means that a student has achieved at an equal or better level than 70% of all school-leaving aged people in the state. The ATAR is calculated using the Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA). Each student’s results in each subject are standardised and scaled using each student’s results in other courses to reflect the overall achievement of each student in each subject. The TEA is the sum of each student’s best four scaled marks, plus 10% of the mark in any of the following subjects: Languages other than English (LOTE), Mathematics Methods, or Mathematics Specialist. Students may use scores from up to a five-year period, but each course can only be counted once. TISC uses the best score (not the most recent score) in each course to count for the ATAR if students have repeated one or more courses. The TEA has a maximum of 430. Each student’s TEA is then ranked across the state and ATARs are awarded according to the ranking of the TEA. Each state’s tertiary admissions centre calculates and awards ATARs in their own state, but an ATAR in each state is equivalent and transferable. WACE students can therefore use their ATARs for interstate university admission, and interstate students can use their ATARs (or Queensland’s OP) for entrance into Western Australian universities. The Interstate Transfer Index (ITI) is used to maintain the equivalence of ATARs across states, and all states can use the same method using only Year 12 results, rather than any pre-Year 12 studies in conjunction with final year results. School rankings The School Curriculum and Standards Authority publishes yearly rankings of the top performing schools in that year's WACE. From 2012