The single most misunderstood part of the whole process. EduTest does not send results to parents at all — they go to the school, which decides whether you ever see a score. There is no published cut-off, no percentile table and no national results date. Here is what actually happens, and what the numbers mean.
Sourced from EduTest's own published information · Always confirm with your school
EduTest marks the test and sends the results to the school, not to you. Whether you ever see a score report is entirely the school's decision.
The school then runs its own selection process, which combines the test result with everything else it asked for — reports, references, interviews, and whatever weightings it has decided on. EduTest supplies the assessment; the school makes every decision that follows.
So there is no "EduTest results date" to look up, no parent portal to log into, and no national cut-off to compare against. What you are waiting for is your school's communication, somewhere in that three-to-eight-week window.
Where a school does release a report, it shows standardised scaled scores for each of the five sections — not raw marks out of the number of questions, and not a single overall grade.
A scaled score adjusts for how difficult that particular test form was, so results from different sittings can be compared fairly. A raw mark out of 50 would not be comparable between forms.
Scores position your child against other students at the same year level nationally — not against their class, and not against the small group who sat at that school on the day.
Each section is scored separately. A strong overall impression can hide a weak section, which is exactly why the section breakdown matters more than any single figure.
If you do receive a report, read all five sections, not the summary. The pattern across sections is the useful information — it tells you whether a disappointing outcome came from one weak area or from being broadly close to the threshold. That distinction changes entirely what you would do differently next time.
Because EduTest does not publish its scale, the bands below are an indicative reading built from the score ranges that circulate among coaching providers and the patterns we see in our own students' results. They are a working guide for interpreting a report — not an EduTest table, and not a cut-off.
| Band | Commonly cited range | Roughly where that sits | What it usually signals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceptional | 135–140 | Around the top 1–2% of the year level nationally | Strong across all five sections with no soft spot anywhere. Competitive for scholarships at highly selective schools. |
| Very strong | 128–134 | Around the top 5–10% | Consistently high with no weak section pulling the average down. In contention at most schools, though the line still moves with the cohort. |
| Strong | 120–127 | Around the top 10–20% | A solid result, typically carried by one or two stronger sections rather than uniform strength. Often shortlisted; whether that converts depends on the school. |
| Above average | 110–119 | Around the top 20–35% | Clearly above the cohort. The limiter is usually pacing or a single weak section rather than ability across the board. |
| Around average | Below 110 | At or near the middle of the year level nationally | A solid school-level performance that sits mid-pack among a self-selected applicant group. Content gaps and timing are both usually in play. |
Read this table as a rough orientation, not a target. EduTest does not publish the mean, the standard deviation, the range of the scale or any band definitions, so nobody — ourselves included — can state these boundaries authoritatively. The ranges above are widely cited rather than verified, they can differ by entry level, and no school publishes which band it selects from. If your school gives you a figure, use theirs over ours.
A band is a single summary of five separate numbers, and summarising is exactly where the useful information gets lost. Two children can land in the same band from completely different reports.
No section noticeably behind the others. This profile tends to survive selection better, because schools applying a minimum in a named section have nothing to catch on.
Where progress comes from next: small gains everywhere, usually through pacing and careless-error work rather than new content.
A strong overall figure can hide a section sitting well below the rest. A child in a good band overall may still miss a scholarship at a school that sets a minimum in the section they were weak in.
Where progress comes from next: almost entirely that one section. It is also the fastest available gain, because there is more headroom there than anywhere else.
Written Expression is the section that most often does this. It is the only one that is not machine-scored, it comes last when concentration is lowest, and it runs to a tight 15 minutes with no separate planning time. A student who is strong in the four multiple-choice sections and unfinished in the writing task can look far weaker overall than they actually are — which is why our EduTest Writing guide treats finishing as the first priority.
If you never see a band at all, that is normal. Most schools communicate an outcome rather than a score, so many families never learn which band their child landed in. Where that is the case, the useful benchmark is your child's own section results across timed practice over time — movement you can actually measure, rather than a number nobody will give you.
A great deal of confident-sounding detail circulates about EduTest scores. Almost none of it comes from EduTest.
On the score tables you will find elsewhere. Several coaching sites publish tables mapping EduTest scores to bands like "top 1–2%". The better ones label these as unofficial working guides built from their own students' data — and that label is the important part. They are estimates from one provider's cohort, not EduTest's scale, and a family treating them as a target can badly misjudge where their child stands. We have deliberately not reproduced any such table here, because we cannot verify one and neither can the sites publishing them.
There is no national EduTest results date. What exists is a window: most schools reach an outcome three to eight weeks after the sitting, and they tell families directly.
Papers are collected and returned to EduTest for marking. Nothing is available on the day, and there is no immediate feedback of any kind.
Nothing to check yetResults go to the school that ran the sitting once its testing date has passed. Where results transfer applies, they are then sent on to the other schools you applied to, each of which considers the application independently.
School receives, not youThe result is weighed alongside reports, references and anything else required, and shortlisted families may be invited to interview inside this window. Timelines differ by school — a school with several rounds may be slower than one with a single round.
The waiting periodAlmost always the school communicates an outcome — an interview invitation, an offer, or an unsuccessful notification — rather than a score. A parent report is released only if that school chooses to.
Directly from the schoolDo not read silence as a result. Three to eight weeks is a wide range, and schools with later rounds sometimes hold decisions until every sitting is complete. If you are past the window given in the school's application pack, email the registrar and ask when families will be notified — that is a normal question and they are used to it.
Take your timeline from the school's application pack, not from a general figure. Most schools state their own expected notification period when you apply. That number is the one that applies to you; the three-to-eight-week range is only what to expect when the school has not said.
Families often ask for "the ranking". There is no single national EduTest rank — there is a standardised comparison, and then whatever ordering each school builds on top of it.
Raw marks are converted to scaled scores so that results are comparable across different test forms and sittings. Without this, a harder form would unfairly penalise the students who sat it.
Scores position your child against other students at the same year level across the country — not against the handful who sat in the same hall.
A school may combine the five section scores into a single overall figure to rank scholarship candidates, and it decides the weightings. Two schools can rank the same student differently from identical results.
A school's effective threshold shifts with the strength of that year's applicants and the number of places. A result that was competitive one year may not be the next.
Reports, references, interviews and, for some awards, auditions all feed the final ordering. A strong test result gets your child considered; it does not by itself decide the outcome.
Even where a school releases a report, it will not typically tell you where your child sat in the queue. Ranking is an internal process, not a published output.
Why this matters when you compare notes with other families: two children with similar results can receive different outcomes at different schools, and neither school has made a mistake. They weighted the sections differently, had different numbers of places, or were choosing from different applicant pools. Comparing outcomes across schools tells you very little.
Selection methods vary, but most schools use some combination of the four approaches below. Knowing which one your school uses changes how you would prepare.
| Approach | How it works | What it rewards |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score minimum | The section scores are combined into one figure and a threshold applied, with the line moving depending on how strong the applicant pool is that year | Consistent performance across all five sections |
| Per-section minimums | A minimum required in named sections — commonly Mathematics and Reading Comprehension — regardless of the overall figure | No weak sections; a single poor section can end the application |
| Weighted combination | The test result carries a set percentage alongside school reports, references and interview performance | A strong all-round application, not just a test score |
| Shortlist then interview | The test is used only to produce a shortlist, and the decision is made at interview | Getting over the line, then presenting well in person |
Before you apply, ask the registrar: is there a minimum required in any individual section, and how is the test weighted against the rest of the application?
Most schools will answer in general terms, and the answer changes your preparation. A school with a per-section minimum makes your child's weakest section the priority; a school weighting interviews heavily makes interview practice worth real time.
The exact number. Thresholds are internal, they move with the cohort and the number of places, and publishing them would invite gaming.
If a school did give you a figure, it would be last year's figure — and last year's figure is not this year's line. Treat any specific number you are quoted, from any source, with caution.
The honest answer, and the one worth trusting over any specific number you are given.
EduTest does not set a pass mark. Each school sets its own line, that line moves year to year with the strength of the applicant pool and the number of places available, and the same score can be competitive at one school and not at another in the same city.
What is true regardless of the school: scholarships go to results near the top of the applicant pool, and the pool at a selective or well-regarded school is strong. A result that would be excellent at school level is often ordinary among scholarship applicants, because the people applying have self-selected.
The useful target is not a number. It is: no weak section, everything attempted, and a piece of writing that finishes. Those three are within your control, and they are what separate similar candidates when the line falls where it falls.
Be sceptical of anyone quoting you a figure. "You need 130 for a scholarship" cannot be verified against anything EduTest publishes. Where such numbers come from is one provider's own students, in one set of schools, in a particular year — which may bear no relation to the school your child is applying to.
What you can benchmark against instead: your child's own results over time. A section score that moves from below average to above average across a preparation cycle is real, measurable progress — and it is the only comparison that is genuinely available to you. Our mock test guide covers how to track that properly.
Where schools take part in the transfer process, one sitting can serve several applications. The rules are firm, and worth knowing before you register anywhere.
EduTest sends results to each school after that school's testing date has passed, and each school then considers the student's results and application independently of the others.
If you register for several schools in one testing cycle, your child sits at the school with the earliest testing date, and the result is transferred on from there.
Results cannot be back transferred to a school whose testing date has already passed, and they cannot carry across calendar years — a result from a sitting in one year cannot transfer to a school testing the following year.
Some schools opt out entirely and state that there is no sharing or transferring of results, in either direction.
You cannot choose to re-sit instead of transferring. Where schools are part of the transfer process, it applies to all applicants and no exceptions are made. If your child sat once in that cycle, that result is the one every participating school will consider — so treat the earliest sitting as the one that counts, because it is.
What this means practically: the first sitting date among your shortlisted schools is your real deadline, not the last one. Plan preparation to peak for that date, not for an average of them. And register for every school you want considered — a transferred result does not create an application on its own.
There are limited pathways where something genuinely went wrong on the day. All of them run through the school, not through EduTest — and they are rarely successful, which is worth knowing before you invest hope in one.
A verification that scores were transcribed and recorded correctly. Usually offered at no cost. This checks the handling of the result, not the marking judgement itself.
Ask the school first.
For documented illness or a serious incident on or around the test day. Expect to provide a medical certificate, and to lodge it quickly — commonly within about seven days of the sitting.
Act immediately, not after results.
Some schools will arrange a re-mark of the Written Expression task, sometimes for a small administration fee. The multiple-choice sections are machine-scored and are not re-marked.
Availability varies by school.
Appeals are run by the receiving school, not by EduTest, and they rarely change an outcome. A clerical check confirms the number was recorded correctly; it does not re-open a marking decision. Special consideration is for documented circumstances, not for a child who simply underperformed. Going in with realistic expectations saves a great deal of stress at an already difficult moment.
The one thing to do immediately: if your child was unwell on the day, or something happened at the venue, tell the school that week — before results, not after them. A concern raised in advance of an outcome is treated very differently from one raised in response to a disappointing result, and the documentation windows are short.
Ongoing medical conditions are handled before the test, not after. Where a student has a serious, ongoing medical condition, EduTest asks that this be emailed to its registrar before the registration closing date, with an action or management plan for the condition where one exists. Raising it in advance is far more effective than seeking consideration afterwards.
Three outcomes, three sensible responses — and one thing worth doing in all three cases.
Check what the scholarship actually covers, for how long, and on what conditions — many are reviewed annually against continued performance and conduct. Note the acceptance deadline, which is often short.
If you hold offers from more than one school, ask each about the deadline before deciding.
The test has done its job. Keep the following weeks flexible, and prepare your child for a conversation rather than a performance — what they enjoy, what they have done, why this school.
Interviews often carry more weight at this stage than the score that got them there.
It is a threshold decision in a competitive pool, not a verdict on your child. Ask whether the school runs later rounds or another entry level, and whether a report can be released.
Many families succeed at a later entry point after an unsuccessful first attempt.
In all three cases, ask for the report. Even where a school does not release one automatically, it is worth asking — politely, once. A section breakdown is the only objective information you will get about where your child actually stands, and it is genuinely useful whether you are preparing for another round, another school, or another year level.
Section-level weakness is the most fixable thing a result can show. Our timed mock tests report by question type and topic, so the next attempt starts from evidence rather than guesswork.
The results questions families ask us most often, answered from EduTest's own published information where it exists.
Not from EduTest. Its published position is that it does not provide parents with results from the testing, and that it is up to the individual school to decide if and when a parent report outlining the student's performance is made available. Some schools release a section breakdown, many communicate only an outcome. If you want a report, ask the school — there is no EduTest portal to log into.
There is no national results date. EduTest states that each school's selection process timeline differs and can take from three to eight weeks from the date of the testing. Results go to the school after its testing date has passed, and the school notifies families directly. Take your expected timeframe from the school's application pack rather than from a general figure.
As standardised scaled scores for each of the five sections — Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Reasoning, Mathematics and Written Expression — rather than raw marks. Scaling makes results comparable across different test forms, and the comparison is against other students at the same year level nationally.
EduTest does not publish a scale, a percentile table or any qualifying mark, so no verifiable answer exists. Each school sets its own threshold and it moves year to year with the strength of the applicant pool and the number of places. Score tables circulating online are unofficial estimates built from individual providers' own students, not from EduTest's scale.
There is no published figure, and any specific number quoted to you cannot be verified. Scholarships go to results near the top of a self-selected and generally strong applicant pool, and the line differs by school and by year. The controllable targets are no weak section, everything attempted, and a piece of writing that finishes.
EduTest reports scaled scores rather than a published percentile or stanine table, and no national rank is released to families. Schools may combine the section scores into their own overall figure to rank scholarship candidates, but that ordering is internal and is not shared with parents.
Commonly one of four ways: an overall score minimum, minimums in named individual sections, a weighted combination of the test with reports and interviews, or the test used purely to produce an interview shortlist. Ask the registrar whether any individual section has a minimum and how the test is weighted — the answer changes what you should prioritise.
Where schools take part in the transfer process, yes. EduTest sends results to each school after that school's testing date has passed, and each considers the application independently. Results cannot be back transferred to a school whose date has passed, and cannot carry from a sitting in one calendar year to a school testing in the next. Some schools do not participate at all.
Where multiple schools are registered within one testing cycle, the student sits at the school with the earliest testing date, and the results are then transferred to the others. That earliest date is effectively your real deadline, so plan preparation to peak for it.
No, where the schools involved are part of the transfer process. EduTest states that the process applies to all applicants at participating schools and that no exceptions are made. A student may of course apply again in a later cycle for a different entry level.
Limited pathways exist and all run through the receiving school rather than EduTest. A clerical check verifies that scores were recorded correctly and is usually free. Special consideration covers documented illness or a serious incident, generally needs a medical certificate and must be lodged quickly. Some schools offer a re-mark of the writing task for a small fee. Appeals rarely change an outcome.
Contact the school that week, before results are released rather than after. Documentation windows are short and a concern raised in advance is treated very differently from one raised in response to a disappointing outcome. For a serious ongoing medical condition, EduTest asks that this be emailed to its registrar before the registration closing date, with an action or management plan where one exists.
No published cut-off, no national rank, no parent portal — but a section breakdown you can move, and months in which to move it. Start with a free timed paper and find out where your child actually stands.
