AEAS report and scores explained

There's no universal pass mark

Each AU/NZ school sets its own entry threshold using the AEAS Report; AEAS itself doesn't publish a pass/fail line. If you have a specific target school, the useful number is theirs, not a general benchmark.

The stanine scale

Mathematical Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning are each reported as a stanine: a normalised scale from 1 to 9, with a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2, relative to same-age peers (not relative to other AEAS candidates specifically).

• 1-3: below average
• 4-6: average
• 7-9: above average

The English score

The English section (Vocabulary, Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking together) is reported as a score out of 100, plus five separate component scores, one per skill.

The weeks-of-preparation recommendation

The AEAS Report given to schools also includes a recommended number of weeks of English preparation. Families sometimes overlook this, but it's often the most concrete, actionable figure in the whole report; a report saying "12 weeks" is a clearer planning target than a raw score on its own.

Schools weigh the five component scores unevenly depending on what the year level actually demands; a school enrolling a student straight into a heavy essay-writing curriculum cares more about the Writing component than a school with more in-class ESL support built in. If you know your target school's academic style, weight your own prep accordingly rather than treating all five skills as equally urgent.

Every Vocabulary and Reading test on this site converts your result to a score out of 20 (correct answers divided by total, times 20). This is our own practice-tracking convenience; it is not AEAS's official stanine or component score, and AEAS doesn't publish the exact formula behind its own real scoring.

Writing and Speaking get an estimated score out of 20 too. The AI feedback marks your answer against four AEAS criteria, each out of 5, and adds them up. It's a guide to where your answer stands, not an official AEAS score.

Worked example

A Vocabulary practice test has 50 questions (Years 4-9 format).
A student answers 34 correctly.

Score = (correct / total) x 20
      = (34 / 50) x 20
      = 0.68 x 20
      = 13.6 -> shown rounded as 14 / 20

That's a solid practice result, with room to grow before a tougher target school's threshold.

The Progress page shows, for each module and level, how many questions you've done, how many are right now, and which tests still have mistakes to redo; a faster way to see where prep is working than reviewing individual test results one at a time.