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The OP is calculated and utilised in a similar fashion to the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank in Victoria , the Universities Admission Index in NSW and the ACT , and the Tertiary Entrance Rank in all other Australian states. Instead of being a percentage rank (0.00 - 99.95) like the other state TERs, the OP is a number from 1 to 25, where 1 is the highest and 25 is the lowest. The result of placing students across the state into this band is a Standard Normal Distribution curve. A conversion table is produced in conjunction with other tertiary authorities to allow conversion from a ENTER/TER/UAI or vice versa. CALCULATING THE OVERALL POSITION OPs are calculated by the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) for all students who satisfactorily complete the Queensland Senior Certificate (QSC) and who meet certain other criteria for receiving an OP, such as participating in the Queensland Core Skills Test . Each subject at each school ranks students according to their marks against other students studying the same subject at that school to produce a rank called the Subject Achievement Indicator (SAI). Two levels of scaling are applied to ensure that each subject the student sits contributes equally to their OP. The first level of scaling - ''within school scaling'' - is applied to equalise each subject's achievement level within the school. An Overall Achievement Indicator (OAI) is calculated by working out the average of each student's SAIs for their best five subjects. The second stage of scaling - ''between school scaling'' - adjusts OAI ranks amongst all schools in the state to compensate for the differences between schools. When all students in Queensland have been ranked, they are assigned to one of the 25 OP bands. SEE ALSO
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