Tertiary Entrance Exam

Tertiary Entrance Exam

The Tertiary Entrance Examination (TEE) is the standard academic examination for secondary students completing their twelfth year of schooling in Western Australia. The exam results are used to determine the Tertiary Entrance Rank and the Tertiary Entrance Score. These metrics are then used to determine eligibility for entrance to the tertiary institutions in the state.

Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER)

The TER is normally derived from the Tertiary Entrance Score by a mathematical procedure approved by the Academic Board. A TER is also derived for applicants who have taken the normal university entrance qualification akin to the TEE in another state of Australia or in New Zealand or who have the International Baccalaureate Diploma. In these cases the TER is considered equivalent to the Western Australian TER.

It is a number between 99.95 and zero that reports a student's rank position relative to all other students.

Tertiary Entrance Score (TES)

The TES is a score out of 510, calculated on the basis of a person's TEE exam results.

Generally, the TES is calculated by multiplying an applicant's best mean scaled score over four or five Tertiary Entrance subjects, with at least one subject from each of List 1 and List 2 contributing to the score, by 5.1. Prior to 1998, 500 marks came from the subjects as above, while the remaining 10 came from the Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test (ASAT) score. In 2006, the first of the Course of Studies (COS), Aviation was allowed as a TEE Subject and the first external exam was performed, although the average exam mark was an appalling 36%. In 2007, three other COS's will be externally examined upon for the first time; English COS (replacing English TEE Subject), Engineering Studies and Media, Production and Analysis.

The TEE and COS subjects are broken into 2 lists; List 1-Humanities and List 2-Quantitative. If a student wants to qualify for a TER, they must pick at least 4 subjects, with at least one subject from List One and at least one subject from List Two.

;List 1:
*Ancient History
*Art
*Chinese: Advanced
*Chinese: Second Language
*Drama Studies
*Economics
*English (COS)
*English Literature
*French
*Geography
*German
*Hebrew
*History
*Indonesian: Advanced
*Indonesian: Second Language
*Italian
*Japanese: Advanced
*Japanese: Second Language
*Latin
*Malay: Advanced
*Media Production and Analysis (COS)
*Modern Greek
*Music
*Political and Legal Studies

;List 2:
*Accounting
*Applicable Mathematics
*Aviation (COS)
*Biology
*Calculus
*Chemistry
*Discrete Mathematics
*Geology
*Engineering Studies (COS)
*Human Biology
*Information Systems
*Physical Science
*Physics

References

* [http://calendar.publishing.uwa.edu.au/latest/partd/matriculation/matricdef University of Western Australia - Regulations for Admission and Transfer to Undergraduate Award Courses]
* [http://www.curriculum.wa.edu.au/pages/student/student00.htm Curriculum Council information directory]


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