Obtain an ATAR increment
Successful completion of a full year of the Extension Program can be used as a fifth or sixth study in the calculation of your ATAR aggregate, provided that you have also satisfactorily completed at least four VCE Unit 3/4 subjects for which study scores have been calculated (including at least one English).
Please note that any prerequisite Unit 3/4 subjects that are being completed concurrently with your Extension Program enrolment must also be completed satisfactorily for you to be eligible for the ATAR bonus.
How does it work?
Whereas a fifth or sixth VCE study contributes 10 per cent of the study score to the ATAR aggregate (the raw score that is used in the calculation of your final ATAR), successfully completed Extension Program studies add an increment of between 3.0 and 5.0 points to the aggregate, as shown below:
| Average grade for all Extension Program subjects | Extension Program increment (VCE students) |
| 90 or more | 5.0 |
| 80-90 | 4.5 |
| 70-80 | 4.0 |
| 60-70 | 3.5 |
| 50-60 | 3.0 |
Results for International Baccalaureate (IB students completing Extension Program studies are treated in a similar way to those of VCE students. View further information for IB students here.