Nationally, TAC offers to current Year 12 applicants increased by 5.6% in 2016. Excluding WA, offers to Year 12 applicants increased by 3.0% in 2016. Offers to Year 12 applicants increased in all states and territories. WA recorded the largest increase in offers to Year 12 applicants (49.7%), followed by Tasmania (6.9%) and NSW/ACT (6.3%). Queensland (1.8%), Victoria (0.6%) and SA/NT (0.1%) recorded below average growth in Year 12 offers in 2016. The significant growth in Year 12 offers in WA is mainly due to the ‘half-Year 12’ cohort effect.
Offers to non-Year 12 applicants decreased by 5.8% nationally in 2016. Excluding WA, offers to non-Year 12 applicants decreased by 5.7% in 2016. Offers to non-Year 12 applicants decreased in all states and territories, except Tasmania which increased by 19.3% and Queensland which increased by 2.2%. NSW/ACT recorded the largest decrease in offers to non-Year 12 applicants (-16.0%), followed by SA/NT (-11.4%), WA (-9.7%) and
Victoria (-9.3%).
Table : TAC offers by Current Year 12 status by state and territory, 2015 and 2016
State/Territory
Current Year 12
Non-Year 12
2015
2016
% Change
2015
2016
% Change
NSW/ACT
42,396
45,061
6.3%
29,149
24,484
-16.0%
Vic.
37,617
37,852
0.6%
19,256
17,471
-9.3%
Qld
25,126
25,583
1.8%
21,118
21,586
2.2%
WA
7,025
10,515
49.7%
4,027
3,636
-9.7%
SA/NT
10,521
10,533
0.1%
11,775
10,427
-11.4%
Tas.
2,486
2,657
6.9%
10,843
12,941
19.3%
Australia
125,171
132,201
5.6%
96,168
90,545
-5.8%
Australia (excluding WA)
118,146
121,686
3.0%
92,141
86,909
-5.7%
Nationally applications from Year 12 applicants were more likely to generate an offer than applications from non-Year 12 applicants. In 2016, the Year 12 offer rate was 84.8% compared with the non-Year 12 offer rate of 76.6%. In 2016, Year 12 offer rates were higher than the non-Year 12 offer rates in all states and territories except Tasmania.
Table : TAC offer rates by Current Year 12 status by state and territory, 2015 and 2016
