Your Special Entry rank may vary from one course to another, depending upon the combination of criteria used for ranking special entry applicants and the various weightings applied to those criteria.

Your STAT rank (in the score range 0-99) is a percentile rank based on your performance in the STAT relative to others who have sat the STAT. Note that this is not a percentage of how many questions you answered correctly. For most courses, your performance in the Verbal and Quantitative sections of the STAT are given equal (ie 50:50) weighting. For some courses at Charles Darwin University and some University of Adelaide programs, however, higher weightings may be given to either the Verbal or the Quantitative component.

Your personal competencies rank (in the score range 0-99) is based on SATAC's assessment of your personal competencies statement. Scores are allocated for each of the six personal competencies criteria according to assessment guidelines agreed to by all four universities. For some courses, however, different weightings may be applied to each of the criteria, resulting in different personal competencies ranks for different courses.

Your employment experience rank (in the score range 0-99) is based on the level of your occupation and the period of employment. The level is determined by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) code as used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Your bridging or tertiary preparation course rank (only for Special Entry into Flinders courses) (in the score range 0-99) is based on the length of the completed course or, in the case of the Flinders Foundation course, on your level of achievement within the course as determined by Flinders University.

You should check which of these ranks is used by the courses you wish to apply for in the table Courses available through Special Entry.