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

Preliminary mean scores and deciles will be published in mid-September. Final mean scores, deciles and percentiles will be published shortly after testing ends.

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%