VCE Study Score Calculator

It's a rough guide, less precise than our ATAR calculator. It uses your subject's real VCAA assessment weightings and the same mean-30, standard-deviation-7 scale VCAA converts to, but it cannot model statistical moderation, which adjusts each school's coursework scores against that school's exam performance. Two students with identical class ranks at different schools can end up with different real study scores because of moderation.

Use whichever you actually know. Raw mark is the most accurate option — it checks your mark against VCAA's real published state average and spread for that exact assessment, so it's available whenever VCAA publishes that data for the subject. Rank is best when your school gives you a class or year-level position (e.g. "5th out of 80"). Percentage is for when you only have a rough self-estimate, like "I think I'm in the top 15%". A subject's exam may not offer raw mark if VCAA reports it combined with another component (see the next question).

Raw mark mode needs VCAA's published state average and spread for that specific assessment. For most subjects this exists for every component. For languages, VCAA reports the oral and written exams as one combined result rather than two separate marks, so neither can be checked individually against a real average — use rank or percentage for those instead. A small number of low-enrolment subjects aren't published at all, for privacy reasons.

Statistical moderation adjusts each school's School-assessed Coursework scores so they align with how that school's students performed on the external exam. It doesn't change a student's rank within their own school, but it can shift the whole school's results up or down relative to the state. This calculator can't replicate that adjustment, since the data VCAA uses for it isn't published.

The exact percentage weightings for each subject's School-assessed Coursework, School-assessed Tasks and exams come from VCAA's official VCE and VET assessment summary. The state averages and spreads used in Raw mark mode come from VCAA's 2025 Grade Distributions for VCE Graded Assessments. The final scaling is described on VCAA's score aggregation page.