Scoring
Understanding your AEAS score
What the stanine actually means, what schools look at, and how our /20 practice score relates to it.
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.
How our own /20 practice score fits in
Every 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.
That said, families aiming for competitive private-school entry commonly target roughly 13-15+ per skill on this kind of /20 scale, working out to about 65-75 overall across the four skills this site tracks. Treat that as a rough compass for where to aim in practice, not as an official AEAS benchmark.