Explore Numeracy: Personal identity and community; Workplace and employment. Read the actual course outline before choosing.
Confirm your cohort: Numeracy Short Course 2025 v1.2. Check the implementation statement and school availability for your cohort.
What will I learn?
Topic 1: Personal identity and community
Short Course topicsTopic 2: Workplace and employment
Short Course topicsHow will I be assessed?
School arrangements: This is a Short Course, not a two-year General or Applied subject. Ask your school about delivery, recognition and the assessment options below.
Published course / existing guide: Internal assessment option A: Project — Personal identity and community
Published course / existing guide: Internal assessment option B: Examination — Personal identity and community
Published course / existing guide: Internal assessment option C: Project — Workplace and employment
Published course / existing guide: Internal assessment option D: Examination — Workplace and employment
Progression and companion subjects
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Will I find it hard?
Difficulty depends on your experience, interests, teaching and assessment. These are our reflection prompts, not an official difficulty rating.
- How do you feel about explaining a method and working through unfamiliar multi-step problems?
- Try the sample without looking at a worked answer, then check the steps you need to practise.
Does it scale up or down?
QCAA Short Courses do not contribute to an ATAR. They may contribute one QCE credit, subject to successful completion and recognition.
Scaling is not a measure of difficulty or a guaranteed bonus. Prioritise content you can engage with and required subjects for courses you are considering.
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Sources, versions and verification dates
Profile source metadata last checked: 2026-11-13. A source check is not an endorsement by the authority or confirmation that a future course version is unchanged.
- Numeracy: QCAA course and implementation — QCAA; 2026-11-13. "Numeracy Short Course syllabus 2025" [level=3] For implementation with students who will complete their study of the course in 2025 or beyond.
- Numeracy 2025 v1.2: published learning/assessment labels — QCAA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF edition matches the edition advertised on the live course page. Factual contents labels; school delivery, task dates and results are separate. © State of Queensland (QCAA), CC BY 4.0; see the document copyright notice.