Admission criteria

ATAR/OP comparison table

Since the late 1990s, all Australian states and territories (except Queensland) have used a common measure to rank Year 12 students for university admission. In 2010 the Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admission Centres, of which UAC is a member, agreed that a common name for this measure would be adopted: the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).

From 2020, Queensland Year 12 students will also be ranked using the ATAR.

Until 2019, however, Queensland ranked Year 12 students using the Overall Position (OP) measure.

The table below shows how the ATAR equated to Queensland OPs in 2018. This table should only be used as a guide to how ATARs and OPs equated; the comparisons were reconfigured each year.

2018 Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR)2018 Queensland Overall Position (OP)
99.951
99.501
99.001
98.502
98.002
97.502
97.003
96.503
96.003
95.503
95.004
94.004
93.005
92.005
91.006
90.006
89.007
88.007
87.007
86.008
85.008
84.008
83.009
82.009
81.009
80.0010
75.0012
70.0013
65.0015
60.0017
55.0018
50.0019
45.0020
40.0021
35.0021
30.0021