LANTITE results: when they arrive and what they mean

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LANTITE results are released by week rather than by day, several weeks after the window closes, and they cannot be brought forward. If you sat early in a window you will wait longer than someone who sat at the end of it. This page carries the release dates, what the statement actually tells you, and what happens next if one component did not go your way. All dates and rules come from ACER.

1. When LANTITE results come out

ACER publishes a results date for each test window, given as a week rather than a day. [Source: ACER, 2026]

Two things follow from that, and both surprise people.

The wait is measured from the window, not from your sitting. Everyone who sat in a given window gets their result in the same week. So sitting on the first available day does not get you an earlier answer, it just means you wait longer. Across the 2026 windows that works out at 26 to 39 days, so roughly four to six weeks depending where in the fortnight you sat.

Results cannot be released early. ACER is explicit that this holds "under any circumstances", and gives the reason: there is a process of psychometric analysis and quality assurance between the sitting and the release. Asking will not move it, and neither will a placement deadline. [Source: ACER, 2026]

When results are ready you get an email, and the result itself appears in your ACER candidate account. Nothing arrives in the post and nothing is published anywhere you can check early, so the email is the event. [Source: ACER, 2026]

It is worth knowing that a placement deadline, a graduation date or a provider chasing you for evidence does not change any of this. The release week is fixed for the window, and ACER applies it uniformly. If your deadline falls before the results week for the window you sat, that is a problem to solve with your provider rather than with ACER.

2. What the statement tells you

Your statement reports, for each component you sat, whether you met the standard. The standard is achievement "broadly equivalent to the top 30 per cent of the adult population". [Source: ACER, 2026]

That is worth reading carefully, because two details in it are commonly got wrong. It is the adult population, not the population of teaching students, so you are not being ranked against your cohort. And it is a standard, not a mark out of a hundred. The number of correct answers required varies between test forms and ACER does not disclose it, which is why "how many questions do I need to get right" has no answer. [Source: ACER, 2026]

The two components are marked independently. Passing one does not carry the other, and you can pass one and fail the other in the same sitting, which is a common outcome rather than an unlucky one.

ACER publishes guidance on interpreting the statement, and there is more than one version of it depending on when you sat, so make sure the guidance you are reading matches your own test date. [Source: ACER, 2026]

One thing the statement will not give you is a diagnosis. It tells you whether you met the standard, not which topics cost you the attempt, so it is a poor basis on its own for deciding what to study before a resit.

3. Results do not expire

Once you have met the standard in a component, that is permanent. Results do not expire, and you only need to demonstrate the standard once per component. They are also transferable between institutions: you receive an official ACER report for each component, and it stays valid if you change universities, transfer between courses, or come back to study after a break. [Source: ACER, 2026]

This matters more than it sounds, and it is the fact most often assumed the other way round. Someone who passed numeracy three years ago in a degree they abandoned does not sit numeracy again when they enrol somewhere else. Someone who passed literacy during an undergraduate course and returns years later for a Master of Teaching does not sit literacy again either. The test attaches to you, not to the enrolment you sat it under.

The practical consequence is that the report is worth keeping somewhere you will still be able to reach in five years, rather than only in a student account you will lose access to when you graduate. Download it when it is released rather than assuming you can retrieve it later, and keep it with the documents you will need for accreditation rather than with your coursework.

4. Sending results to your university or registration authority

This is the section most people arrive expecting to be work, and usually it is not.

In the common case your higher education provider receives your results directly, because access is agreed as part of registering for the test. Many universities say plainly that students do not need to send anything. Check with yours before assuming the job is yours.

You are most likely to need to act if you sat the test before enrolling, or if you have changed institutions since. In that case you supply your official ACER report for each component, which you download from your candidate account. You are also likely to need your own copy if a teacher registration authority asks for evidence directly, which happens at accreditation rather than at enrolment and can be years after you sat.

If something is wrong with a result, or you need a copy you can no longer retrieve, ACER's contact for the test is teacheredtest@acer.org. There is no phone number to call. ACER states that it does not run a call centre and describes email as the quickest way to get a response. Any third-party site offering you a LANTITE phone line is not quoting ACER. [Source: ACER, 2026]

5. If you did not pass a component

A fail is recoverable, and the rules changed in your favour recently.

• ·There is no attempt limit. From 2025 ACER removed the cap entirely: "there will be no test limits for candidates sitting the LANTITE". If you have read that the cap is three attempts per component, that source predates the change. [Source: ACER, 2026]
• ·You only resit the component you did not pass. A pass in literacy stands while you resit numeracy. [Source: ACER, 2026]
• ·But you resit the whole component. Sub-domain results are not transferable, so if you failed numeracy you sit all of numeracy again, including the sections you did well in. Strong performance in one half of a failed component earns you nothing towards the next attempt. [Source: ACER, 2026]

What a fail does cost you is a window. The next sitting is the next window, not a second attempt in the current one, and the fee is payable again. If a placement or a graduation date is in play, read when to pass LANTITE and count backwards before you book.

For what to actually change between attempts rather than simply sitting again, read what to do after a failed LANTITE attempt.

6. What to do while you wait

Waiting several weeks with a placement in the balance is uncomfortable, and there is one useful thing to do with the time.

If you think a component may not have gone well, do not wait for confirmation to start preparing. The next window's registration may close before your result arrives, and on that timeline the choice is to register speculatively or lose a window. Check the test dates and registration deadlines against your results week and see whether they overlap.

Our free diagnostic will give you a read on both components in about fifteen minutes, which is a better basis for that decision than a feeling about how a sitting went. People routinely misjudge this in both directions, and a sitting that felt bad and a sitting that went badly are not the same thing.

If the diagnostic confirms a weak component, free practice questions are grouped by skill so you can work on the specific areas rather than starting again from the beginning. None of it requires an account.

The one thing not worth doing while you wait is nothing. If the result is a pass you have lost a few hours; if it is not, you have kept a window open that would otherwise have closed while you waited to be told what you already suspected.

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