LANTITE Requirements by University and State: Curtin, WSU, Deakin, SCU and When You Must Pass

• Both components before graduation. Every accredited initial teacher education course, undergraduate or postgraduate, primary or secondary, requires the standard in literacy and in numeracy. It is separate from any literacy or numeracy assessment your university runs.
• Attempt in first year. Students who started from 2024 onwards are expected to attempt the test within their first year. Attempt, not pass: no university on this page requires a pass before second year.
• Unlimited attempts since 2025, and you only ever resit the component you did not meet. A met component never expires and transfers if you change university.
• Early-childhood-only qualifications are exempt. The test applies to courses that qualify you for primary or secondary schools. A combined early childhood and primary course is not exempt.
• You can sit before you enrol. Prospective students can register with ACER as unenrolled candidates and arrive with the standard already met.
• One alternative standard. Since 2024 AITSL accepts proficiency in an Australian First Nations language, recognised by the relevant cultural authority, in place of the test.

Sources: ACER, eligibility; Department of Education. Windows, deadlines and fees are on our LANTITE test dates 2026 page.

• Bachelor of Education and Master of Teaching: you must attempt both components within your first year. You are not required to pass before progressing to second year, but both are required for graduation.
• Graduate Diploma in Education: the LANTITE is not required.
• No limit on attempts, and the components can be sat separately with no need to resit one you have passed.
• Curtin's library runs a LANTITE UniSkills guide; the School of Education's advice is to sit once you are familiar with the format, which in practice means after working through practice material, not before.

Source: Curtin, "When should I sit the LANTITE for my education course?" (updated August 2026).

• Pass both components before graduating; attempt within the first 12 months of your course.
• Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary), course 1773: you must pass the LANTITE before enrolling in the final school placement, TEAC7106 Professional Experience K-6.
• Master of Teaching (Early Childhood), course 1774: the LANTITE is not required.
• Because WSU is in NSW, NESA's rule applies to everyone: meet the standard before your final professional experience placement.
• Support: free Literacy for LANTITE workshops run by the Library before every window, free numeracy workshops from the Mathematics Education Support Hub before windows 1 and 3, and self-paced LANTITE Literacy and LANTITE Numeracy microcredentials that end with a mock test.

Sources: WSU, LANTITE Success and WSU, Special requirements. One correction to WSU's page: ACER's own remote-proctoring rule is that remote sittings end five days before a window closes, not three.

• A course requirement for every primary and secondary initial teacher education student, undergraduate and postgraduate: pass both components to graduate, attempt in your first year.
• The test sits inside your course as two zero-credit-point units you complete in first year, ELN010 Australian Literacy Test and ELN011 Australian Numeracy Test, so it shows up in your course map like any other compulsory unit.
• Passed it at another institution? Email lantite@deakin.edu.au with the evidence rather than sitting again.
• Deakin recognises First Nations language proficiency as the alternative standard, via a form submitted to the same address.
• Support: a LANTITE Cloud site, four two-hour online preparation sessions each round with maths and writing mentors, individual appointments with a writing mentor or a maths mentor, and the Indigenous Tutorial Network.

Sources: Deakin, LANTITE and the Master of Teaching (Primary) course structure.

• Meet the standard in both components to graduate from a primary or secondary teaching degree; attempt both in your first year "to ensure optimal study progression".
• The two components can be sat in one sitting or separately, and prospective students can sit before they commence.
• SCU's campuses are in NSW and Queensland; NSW-based students are also under NESA's final-placement rule.
• Support: the Faculty of Education runs workshops and a Blackboard site with practice questions, and the Learning Zone supports general literacy and numeracy through workshops and online resources.

Source: Southern Cross University, LANTITE.

Usually not. ACER lists three arrangements: Griffith University, La Trobe University (Nexus postgraduate program only) and Edith Cowan University (HAT@ECU program) may cover the fee for eligible students, and Queensland University of Technology, which used to, no longer does from 2026. Everyone else pays ACER $196 for both components or $98 for one at registration. The refund rules and deadlines are in our LANTITE cost guide.

The national rule above is your rule. Your university's page will be titled something like "LANTITE" under the School of Education, and the four things worth finding on it are: by when you must attempt, whether a pass gates your final placement or a particular unit, which of its courses are exempt, and what free preparation it runs. If it still says you have three attempts, it is out of date; that limit went in 2025.

Whatever your university requires, the test is the same one: 65 questions per component, two hours each, four windows a year. What it is like to sit is on our What Is the LANTITE Test? page, the pass rates and how results are reported on LANTITE results, and you can start with free practice questions and a free full-length practice paper today, whichever campus you are on.