LANTITE Results 2026: Release Dates, What Your Statement Means, and the Pass Rate

ACER releases every result for a test window on the same day, four to six weeks after the window closes, once every paper has been through scoring and checking. It publishes the date only as a "week ending", and in 2026 the results have gone out on the Thursday of that week. Nothing is released early for anyone, and you do not get a result at the end of your sitting. When the statements are ready ACER sends a message to your candidate account at teacheredreg.acer.edu.au, where you download them; results from every window you have sat stay there.

Published dates from ACER's results page. The release days are the days candidates received their results in our records; ACER commits only to the week. Registration and test dates for every window are on our LANTITE test dates 2026 page.

You receive a separate statement of results for literacy and for numeracy. The box in the top right corner says whether you met the standard. Underneath, your result is plotted on ACER's Described Proficiency Scale in three bands: band 1 is below the standard, band 2 at or above it, band 3 clearly above it. Each sub-domain then gets its own page, with a dot showing which band you landed in and dot-point descriptors of the skills each band represents. For literacy the sub-domains are reading and technical skills of writing; for numeracy they are number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability.

If you did not meet the standard, the statement carries a fuller analysis: the descriptors for the band you need to reach, a box of skills to work on, and links to ACER's practice material and the proficiency scale document with sample questions for each band. That page is the most useful thing ACER gives you, because it names the skills that decided the result.

ACER's own walkthrough: how to interpret the statement of results (PDF) and the Described Proficiency Scales.

There isn't one, and ACER says so directly. The questions differ from one sitting to the next, so the number you need to answer correctly differs too, and ACER states that it is not possible to provide the number of questions or a percentage figure needed to meet the standard. Every sitting is scaled against the same fixed standard instead: personal literacy and numeracy skills in the top 30 per cent of the Australian adult population. That scaling is also why results take weeks rather than minutes.

The practical consequence is that there is no cut-off to aim at, so prepare to be comfortably over the standard rather than just over it. It is the reason our app reports readiness topic by topic instead of a single percentage: the sub-domains on the statement are the sub-domains you practise.

The Department of Education publishes it. This is the share of first-time candidates who met the standard at their first attempt, by the year they registered:

In 2025 that was 25,971 first-time literacy candidates and 26,069 numeracy candidates. So roughly one first-timer in eight does not meet the literacy standard at the first attempt, and about one in seventeen misses numeracy. Most of them get there: of the students who registered in 2022, 93.0 per cent had met the literacy standard by the end of that year and 98.2 per cent by their fourth year, and numeracy went from 94.2 to 98.5 per cent.

The literacy first-attempt rate has drifted down from 93.3 per cent in 2016. The standard was revised in mid-2017, and since 2025 students have been required to attempt the test in their first year, so more candidates now sit it early in their degree. Numeracy has moved the other way, from 92.4 per cent in 2016 to 94.3 per cent.

Source: Department of Education, LANTITE data tables.

They don't expire, and they do transfer. A met standard is met for good: you only ever have to demonstrate it once for each component, and it moves with you if you change university. Results from every window you have sat remain in your ACER account. Some states and territories also ask for your results when you register or apply for teaching positions, so keep the statements.

Not the result itself. ACER's position is that results are released only after careful calculation and extensive checking, and it will not enter into appeals against them; its appeals process covers other matters. What you can do is read the statement closely, because it tells you exactly which sub-domain and which band cost you the standard.

Three things are true that a number of university pages still get wrong. You can sit as many times as you need: the attempt limit was removed permanently from 2025 after a trial that began in late 2023. You only resit the component you missed. And that costs $98, not $196.

After the December results the next window is 2027 Window 1: registration 12 to 25 January, test 15 to 28 February. Read the descriptors on your statement before you book anything, because they name the skills that decide it, then read what happens after a failed LANTITE for how to prepare differently the second time.