Test Statistics

In order to help you make your University choices, you may want to understand how your test result relates to overall candidate performance. You may also be interested to know how you score compares with those used by universities in previous years.

Mean scores can shift between testing years and so direct comparison is not always possible. The information below provides you with decile distributions and allows you to look up your own percentile ranking. Scores from previous years are also provided.

2024 Test Scores

Mean Total Score

The following data is valid up to the 26 September 2024, based on 37,913 tests taken.

The final total cognitive mean scaled score is 2523.

The final mean scaled scores of the cognitive subtests are below:

Cognitive Subtest 2024
Verbal Reasoning (VR) 601
Decision Making (DM) 620
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) 649
Abstract Reasoning (AR) 653

The scaled score range for each cognitive subtest is 300 - 900.

Decile Ranking

The following table provides deciles of candidate subtest and total scores. Each decile rank represents 10% of candidates based on their overall test performance. The 1st decile represents a score at the 10th percentile; the 2nd decile represents a score at the 20th percentile, and so on.

Decile Rank Total score VR DM QR AR
1st 2140 510 500 530 530
2nd 2260 540 550 570 570
3rd 2360 560 570 600 600
4th 2440 580 600 620 620
5th 2520 590 620 640 640
6th 2590 620 640 660 660
7th 2680 640 670 690 700
8th 2780 660 690 720 730
9th 2920 700 740 770 810

Situational Judgement Test

The table below shows the percentage of candidates placed in each Situational Judgement Test band.

  2024
Number of candidates 37,913
Band 1 13%
Band 2 36%
Band 3 38%
Band 4 13%

Percentile Look Up (2024 Test Cycle)

Enter your 2024 total scaled score below to find out your percentile ranking. Please note that some universities generate their own percentiles based on their own applicants.

 


Cognitive Subtests 2019 - 2023

The scaled score range for each cognitive subtest is 300 – 900. Mean scaled scores for the cognitive subtests are below:

 

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019
Number of candidates 35,625 36,374 37,230 34,153 29,375
Verbal Reasoning 591 567 572 570 565
Decision Making 623 616 610 625 618
Quantitative Reasoning 649 658 665 664 662
Abstract Reasoning 652 659 651 653 638
Total Score 2516 2500 2499 2511 2483

The following table provides deciles of candidate total scores in each year. Each decile represents 10% of candidates. The 1st decile represents a score at the 10th percentile; the 2nd decile represents a score at the 20th percentile, and so on.

Decile Rank

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019
1st 2150 2120 2150 2170 2170
2nd 2270 2250 2270 2290 2280
3rd 2360 2340 2360 2370 2360
4th 2440 2420 2430 2450 2420
5th 2510 2500 2500 2510 2480
6th 2580 2570 2570 2580 2540
7th 2660 2660 2640 2650 2610
8th 2760 2750 2730 2730 2690
9th 2890 2880 2850 2850 2800

Situational Judgement Test (SJT) 2019 - 2023

The table below shows the percentage of candidates achieving each SJT banding:

 

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019
Number of candidates 35,625 36,374 37,230 34,153 29,375
Band 1 25% 20% 14% 30% 17%
Band 2 39% 36% 36% 36% 40%
Band 3 26% 31% 33% 24% 33%
Band 4 9% 14% 16% 9% 10%