A: During the application period (commencing early-August) a link will be available on the home page to create a VTAC account. After entering personal details, you will be asked to set up a 4 digit PIN and issued with a VTAC ID. You will then be able to log into your account and apply for courses.

A:Whether you are treated as a Year 12 or non-Year 12 applicant will depend on the highest qualification you have attempted to date. Your applicant status will be automatically determined during the application process based on the answers you provide. See Where do I start? for more information on types of applicants.

A:No, all VTAC accounts are only valid for the current application year (running August to July) and so accounts from previous years will no longer be active. You will need to create a new VTAC account from the homepage and re-enter any relevant study claims (and associated student numbers).

A:All applicants fill out the same form, regardless of their age or study status. VTAC will be able to determine your applicant type by your answers during the registration and course application process. You are able to apply for mature age consideration through the Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS), which is available after you have lodged a course application. See Mature Age Entry for more information.

A: Yes, registering with VTAC is free. You will only incur fees if you lodge a course application.

A: The course application will prompt you to provide basic personal information and information about any previous and current study (e.g. institution name, course title and years attended). You will also need to select the courses you wish to apply for.

Demonstration applications are available during the application period here.

A: If you make a mistake on your VTAC course application, you are able to make amendments by logging into your VTAC account. This includes adding, amending and removing study claims. If you need to change your name or residency status, you will need to contact VTAC.

A: Your course application will be available to all institutions listed in your course preferences as long as your course application fee has been fully paid by the due date. If there is missing or incomplete information or results, your application will still be passed on and institutions will decide how to consider it.

A: If you decide not to go ahead with your application and have not fully paid your course processing fees, then your application will not be forwarded on to institutions for consideration. No action is required on your part for this to occur.

Fully paid course applications cannot be withdrawn and are non-refundable (except as required by law). If you are made any offers you are under no obligation to accept them and not taking up an offered course will not impact negatively on any applications you may make in the future.

A. STAT stands for Special Tertiary Admissions Test. The tests are developed and marked by ACER (Australian Council for Educational Research) and are subject to international testing standards. They are designed to test a range of competencies commonly considered important for success in tertiary study. Some institutions use STAT as a selection tool (see selection criteria under the course description) There are two versions of STAT:

STAT Multiple Choice
Test consists of seventy questions that test your ability to read and interpret graphical displays of information and passages of writing, to use mathematical relationships and to apply reasoning to tables of data. Duration: Two hours with an additional ten minutes reading time.

STAT Written English
Test requires you to write two short essays to assess your ability to communicate effectively in writing. Duration: One hour, with an additional five minutes reading time

A: See the Who Needs STAT page.

A: These tests are selection requirements for some courses. CASPer is required for many undergraduate teaching courses, and the UMAT or ISAT is required for undergraduate medicine courses. These tests are not managed by VTAC. For more information, please refer to the other admissions tests page on the VTAC website, or to the respective test provider websites.

A. Information regarding preparation for STAT (including the Candidate Information Booklet, practice questions, preparation workshop details and what you should bring to the test) is located here.

A: There is no pass or fail score for the STAT. Most STAT scores are reported as a standardised score between 100 and 200, however scores below 100 and above 200 are possible. STAT Multiple Choice scores are calculated individually for the verbal and quantitative components of the test, as well as a total score.

Percentile Rankings
The percentile rank indicates the percentage of candidates who had a score less than your score. For example, if you achieve a percentile rank of 76.3, you have achieved a higher score than 76.3% of the test-taking population.

Course Selection It is not possible for selection authorities at institutions to confirm whether a particular percentile ranking will result in an offer because the number of applicants and the results they achieve will vary each year

A: Sittings of the STAT in Victoria and Tasmania are administered by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Information regarding sitting dates, fees and locations can be found on the ACER STAT website.

A: You will be advised during the course application process whether you need to provide proof of your study claims or if VTAC can obtain them electronically. If you need to submit documentation, you can upload scanned images in colour of your transcripts, or print a document coversheet from your VTAC account and post a copy of your documents to VTAC. See the Documentation page for more information.

A: As of August 2016, you are no longer required to certify documentation being submitted to VTAC. All copies must however be of official transcripts and certificates, and should be provided in colour. Print-outs of unofficial results from the web will not be accepted.

A: If you no longer have original documentation and are unable to request a copy from the institution, you should submit a statutory declaration stating your results and/or qualification and the reason the information is not obtainable. Visit the Australian Government's Statutory Declarations page for more information. Whether supplied statutory declarations are sufficient for course selection purposes is at the discretion of the institutions to which you apply.

A: Sometimes it is necessary for VTAC to change the information you have provided. Electronic results received from your course provider can come in varying formats. (E.g. you may have a double bachelor degree in arts and science, but the results may come back as two separate claims - a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of science.) Even if you have studied a single degree, your course provider may send the information in two parts. VTAC will sometimes amend study claims to match the electronic results returns from the institutions, or to match hardcopy documentation submitted to us. In this instance VTAC will inform you of the amendments made to your application via email.

A: If you are currently studying, you may not have some/all of your results available until the end of the year. If you have some results available from previous years or semesters, then you should supply those prior to the relevant documentation closing dates. Results for current studies will still be accepted after this date and circulated to institutions once processed by VTAC.

A: Please refer to the current IB to notional ATAR table in the Reports and Statistics section of the website.

A: QTAC (Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre) now uses an ATAR which is comparable to Victoria, as do other states.

A: The Reports and Statistics section contains the Interstate Equivalents to Victorian Prerequisite Studies Table which can be used by interstate secondary students to determine which subjects in their own state will meet Victorian course prerequisites. It also contains the Interstate prerequisite score conversion guidelines . If you have trouble understanding the table or score guidelines, please phone VTAC on 03 9926 1020 for assistance.

A: VTAC course application and STAT fees can be paid online once the relevant application has been submitted. Payment is made via PayPal using either credit card (no Paypal login required) or by logging into a PayPal account. VTAC cannot accept payment via phone.

A: If you do not have access to a credit card you can make payment using your bank account via a PayPal account. Using this option requires you to set up a PayPal account via the PayPal website.

If you do not have a credit card and also do not wish to create a PayPal account, you can purchase a prepaid Visa card from post offices and major supermarkets. If you choose this option, please allow additional funds to cover any card fees/charges.

A: When you lodge a course application, you will be asked about any previous and current study and then prompted to provide documentation as required. Once you have applied, VTAC will assess your qualifications using guidelines set by the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (NOOSR). Qualifications which are equivalent to an Australian Certificate IV or higher will meet minimum tertiary entrance requirements. Institutions will then make the decision on whether they wish to make you an offer. Decisions regarding the selection of applicants are made by the individual course providers, not VTAC. Equivalent secondary overseas qualifications for minimum tertiary entrance requirements may be viewed here.

Please contact course providers directly for further information on meeting prerequisite studies with an overseas qualification. VTAC cannot assess overseas qualifications without seeing certificates and transcripts of your qualification.

A: Documentation must be provided to support all overseas qualification claims made in your VTAC application. VTAC requires copies of certificates and official transcripts showing your final year of secondary education and complete tertiary academic history. Documentation in a language other than English will need to be translated into English, and a copy of both original documents and an accredited translation will need to be supplied to VTAC. Accredited translators can be found via NAATI.

If an overseas course provider has already provided a translation of your records as part of your qualifications, you should supply these documents. Documents to be submitted to VTAC should either be uploaded through your VTAC account or sent in hard copy with a coversheet available from your VTAC account (address is printed on coversheet).

A: If you are unable to provide documentation for your previous studies, you can provide a statutory declaration. The statutory declaration should state why the results cannot be provided as well as your best recollection as to your results in the study. Statutory declaration forms can be accessed online or from Victoria Police. Whether supplied statutory declarations are sufficient for course selection purposes is at the discretion of the institutions to which you apply.

A: For undergraduate courses please check individual institution websites for their English language requirements. If you have completed an English test such as IELTS, please upload results to your VTAC account, or send a hard copy with a documentation cover sheet printed from your VTAC account.

For Graduate Entry Teaching (GET) course applicants, check the course entries or institution websites to ensure you meet English language requirements. If you have been advised by a university you are applying to that you meet their English exemption requirements or feel that you have provided sufficient evidence of your English competency, you can choose not to sit an English test. The final decision can be made at your own discretion in consultation with selection officers at the institutions listed on your course preference list.

Course provider contact details can be found here.

A: If you are a VTAC applicant, VTAC will assess whether your qualifications meet Victorian minimum tertiary entrance requirements as part of the course application process, however, VTAC does not provide applicants with a 'statement of assessment'. The assessment will be forwarded to your preferences who will then decide whether the results you obtained in your overseas studies meet their course specific requirements.

Should you require an assessment of overseas tertiary qualifications for your own purposes (e.g.: employment or applying directly to an institution), a list of assessment authorities can be found here.

A: The Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS) is designed to give special consideration to those who have experienced circumstances that have impacted on their ability to reach their full educational potential (including rural or regional location, medical condition or disability, financial disadvantage, and other difficult circumstances). Mature age consideration is also applied for through SEAS.

You may wish to lodge a SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) application to support your VTAC course application. You can apply for SEAS through your VTAC account after you have submitted your course application. A single SEAS application covers all course preferences from participating institutions.

A: You do not need official approval to lodge a SEAS application. You can apply under as many categories as you feel are applicable to your circumstances. Your application will be assessed by a specialised panel and passed on to institutions for consideration during selection. SEAS applications cannot have a negative effect on the competitiveness of your application.

A: SEAS will not change your ATAR. Your application is assessed for degrees of disadvantage based on the information provided. Tertiary institutions will then use the information in your SEAS application when selecting applicants for their courses.

A: The SEAS application can only be accessed once a course application has been submitted.

A: All SEAS applications are passed on to institutions for consideration. Applications are not approved or rejected, institutions will consider your SEAS application based on your disadvantage according to the information you provided.

A: Your scholarship application will be sent to all participating institutions appearing in your course preference list. Or, if you are not applying for courses through VTAC, it will be sent to the institutions you selected in the "intentions" section (for direct applications and deferred/enrolled students) of the scholarship application. If you are lodging a scholarship application through VTAC, you will not need to advise which scholarship/s you are applying for, you will be considered for all scholarships you are eligible for.

A: No. Many universities will also have scholarships available that require an individual application.
Please see Institutions Offering Scholarships for more information.

A: A list of participating universities can be found via this link.

A: Advice letters will be sent out between December and March. Scholarship offer information will also be available in your VTAC account.

Please see Scholarship Offers for specific institutional advice on scholarship offers.

A: All graduate entry teaching courses have English language requirements. These are described in course entries. Please contact the university directly if you are unsure if you meet requirements or want information on how you can fulfil them. The final decision to sit IELTS can be made at your own discretion in consultation with selection officers at the institutions listed on your course preference list.

A: The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) provides online guidelines for individuals to self-assess for Specialist Teaching Areas.

When listing your course and specialist teaching area preferences in your application, if you are still unsure of your eligibility for teaching areas, you are advised to answer 'yes' to consideration of any other methods.

A: When VTAC receives your application, it assesses eligibility for specialist teaching areas ONLY on behalf of universities using the Victorian Institute of Teaching specialist area guidelines. The universities have the option to override these assessments. VTAC posts the assessments and notes on your user account between October and December under the course application tab. If you need to clarify the assessments, please first access the specialist area guidelines. If you still require assistance, please call VTAC on 03 9926 1020. Please note that teaching area assessments are carried out by a specialised team employed by VTAC during the application period and outside of these months VTAC has no capacity to assess specialist teaching areas.

A: When listing your course and specialist teaching area preferences in your application, if you are still unsure of your eligibility for teaching areas, you are advised to answer 'yes' to consideration of any of any other method. This way the university is able to make you an offer for specialist teaching areas other than what you selected in your preference list.

A: You need an advanced level major study in the language requiring successful completion of Year 12 studies in the language for entry into the program. Native speakers of the language may seek a statement of equivalence from an Australian university language centre to verify that their knowledge and competence in the language meets the standard of a post-Year 12 advanced level major study in the language. A fee applies.

A: Offer emails are sent to the email address you have on file with VTAC and are also available under the offers tab in your VTAC Account from 2pm on the offer release dates. Please see Dates and Fees for more information.

A: If the last number on your course code ends in 1, then you have been offered a place in a government funded (CSP) course. If your course code ends in 2, then you have been offered a full-fee paying place. Course codes ending in 4 are for VET places where the fee type will be determined by the institution at enrolment.

For more information about fee types and eligibility see Course Code Information.

A: Receiving or accepting an offer does not stop the offer process and does not reduce your chances of future offers. If you receive an offer (regardless of whether you accept or decline it) you will still automatically be considered in later offer rounds for course listed higher on your preference list than what you have already been offered.

You will no longer be considered for courses listed lower on your preference list than the course which you have been offered. If you still wish to be considered for an offer in a lower listed course, you will need to change your preferences by the relevant date for the next offer round. See Dates & Fees.

A: Receiving an offer does not confirm your enrolment in the course. You must follow the enrolment instructions sent to you by the institution to secure your place. If you have not received enrolment instructions within a couple of days of VTAC notifying you of your offer, please contact the relevant institution for advice.

A: You can only receive one course offer per offer round. If you would have been eligible to receive multiple offers in the first round, you will be offered the one of those listed highest on your preference list.

You will only receive further course offers in subsequent offer rounds if a course preference higher than what you have already been offered wishes to make you an offer. If you have enrolled in a course and later receive an offer that you prefer, you can enrol in the new course but must also withdraw your previous enrolment.

Please note: for those applying for both undergraduate and graduate-entry teaching courses, one offer of each course type is possible in each round.

A: You can change your preferences from the Course Application tab of your VTAC Account. Ensure you have received an email receipt after changing your preferences to confirm your submission was successful.

A: There is a period of time before each offer round when change of preference is locked while institutions select successful applicants. After each offer round, change of preference re-opens until the next lock period. See Dates and Fees for more information.

A: Check the course information on CourseSearch to see if the course has an early closing date and therefore can no longer be added to your application (under Additional Information on course listings). You can also see if the course has been cancelled or changed on the Course Updates page.

A: It is important to list your course preferences in the order you would most like to study them. Should you meet the selection criteria for multiple courses, you will only receive an offer for the one highest on your preference list.

A: Changing your preferences does not affect offers you have already received. In subsequent rounds of offers, you will be considered for all courses on your preference list which are higher than the course you have already been offered.

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and you should call VTAC if the matter is urgent