LANTITE test dates and registration deadlines

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LANTITE runs in four test windows a year, and registration for each one closes about three weeks before that window opens. That gap is what catches people out. The test still feels months away while the only date that matters has already passed. This page carries the current windows, what each one costs, and the deadline that decides whether you sit at all. All dates and fees come from ACER's published schedule.

1. The test windows and when registration opens

There are four windows a year, each running for two weeks. Registration for a window opens roughly six weeks before it starts and closes roughly three weeks before it starts. Registration opens between 10am and 12pm on its first day, and closes at 5pm AEST or AEDT on its last. [Source: ACER, 2026]

Two things about that table are worth saying plainly. The registration period is not the test period, and the two do not overlap. And by the time a window opens, registration for it has been shut for three weeks.

The windows are spread across the year rather than bunched, which in practice puts roughly one in reach of each part of an academic year: one before first semester starts, one mid-year, one in the winter break, and one late in second semester. They do not move, and they are not extended. A window is a fortnight, and if you do not sit within it you wait for the next one.

That spacing is why a single missed deadline is expensive. The gap between windows is around three months, so missing the registration for one does not cost you a fortnight, it costs you a quarter of a year. For anyone whose placement or graduation depends on a pass, that is usually the difference between a plan working and a plan needing to be rebuilt.

If a window shows as not yet published

ACER publishes the next year's windows partway through the current one. Where a window is listed above as not yet published, ACER has not released its dates and there is no date to plan against. Check back, or subscribe to the calendar so the dates land in your own when they are confirmed.

2. The deadline that actually matters

Registration closing is a hard stop, and everything else on this page follows from it.

• ·Late registrations are not accepted "under any circumstances". There is no grace period, no waitlist, and no discretionary exception. [Source: ACER, 2026]
• ·Deferrals to a future window are not accepted either. If you register and cannot sit, you do not move to the next window. You register again and pay again. [Source: ACER, 2026]
• ·You can sit each component once per window. Fail literacy in August and your next attempt is the October window, not a second go in the same fortnight. A failed component costs a whole window. [Source: ACER, 2026]

Work backwards from the window you need rather than forwards from today. If you need a pass before a placement in March, the February window is your last realistic chance. That means registering in January, which means deciding in December, over a break when university support services are closed and nobody is chasing you about it. The people who miss out are rarely unprepared. They are usually the ones who looked at a February test in November, judged it comfortably distant, and looked again in February.

Leaving a spare window between your planned sitting and the date you actually need the pass is the single practical protection against this, because it converts a failed component from a blocked placement into an inconvenience. For a fuller version of that arithmetic against your own degree, provider and placement dates, read when to pass LANTITE.

3. What it costs, and the refund cliff

The 2026 fee is $98.00 for a single component and $196.00 for both, GST inclusive. The fee is payable each time you register and attempt a component, so a resit costs the same again. [Source: ACER, 2026]

The part people miss is the refund deadline, because it is not a separate date. The refund deadline is the same moment as the registration close. Withdraw before registration closes and you get the fee back less a $12 administration charge per component. Miss it and the fee is gone. [Source: ACER, 2026]

ACER is explicit that this holds regardless of circumstance: failing to schedule a remote proctoring session, not getting the test time you wanted, and personal circumstances or illness on their own do not qualify for a refund after registration has closed. The only exception is what Australian Consumer Law requires. The administration charge is per component, so withdrawing from both costs $24 rather than $12. [Source: ACER, 2026]

So the close of registration is two deadlines at once. It is the last moment you can enter, and the last moment you can leave with your money. If you are unsure whether you will be ready, that uncertainty has a deadline attached to it, and the deadline arrives about three weeks before the test does.

4. Test centre or remote proctoring

You choose a delivery mode when you register, and every component you register for in the same window has to use the same one. [Source: ACER, 2026]

Test centres are in the capital cities and some regional centres. Sessions are first come, first served, and once registration closes you cannot change your booking. Remote proctoring runs on your own computer under live supervision, sessions are available 24 hours a day, and you must book at least 72 hours ahead. [Source: ACER, 2026]

Test centre sessions have their own version of the same problem. They are allocated first come, first served, so the popular times at the popular centres go to whoever registers early in the registration period rather than late. If a specific centre or a specific time of day matters to you, registering on the day registration opens is worth the effort.

5. How to register

Registration happens on ACER's site, not here. The process is: [Source: ACER, 2026]

1. Create an account, or log in to the one you already have.
2. Enter your details carefully, including your name, date of birth and your higher education provider.
3. Register for each component separately.
4. Choose your delivery mode.
5. Pay, which is what confirms the booking.

Two details in that list cause most of the avoidable problems. Your name has to match the identification you will present on the day, so enter it as it appears on your ID rather than as you usually write it. Changing your personal details afterwards is not a matter of editing a field: ACER requires you to submit evidence through your online account. Payment is what confirms the booking, not submitting the form, and the registration close applies to the payment as much as to the rest of it.

Registration is limited to bona-fide candidates under ACER's test eligibility policy, which in practice means people enrolled in, or intending to enrol in, an initial teacher education course. [Source: ACER, 2026]

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6. Before you register

A window is not much use if you are not ready for it, and the fee is payable again on a resit. Booking the next available window because it is next is how people end up paying twice.

Find out where you actually stand first. Our free diagnostic takes about fifteen minutes and maps your strengths and gaps across both components. What it is useful for here is not the score but the decision: it tells you whether the next window is realistic or whether the one after it is the better booking, while you can still act on the answer.

Then work through free practice questions in the areas it flags, grouped by skill so you can go straight to the weak ones rather than working through everything. Both are free, neither asks for an email, and both are quicker than a resit.

If you have already sat and are waiting on a result, the timing question changes shape, because the next window may close before your result arrives. That leaves a genuinely awkward choice between registering speculatively and losing a window, and it is common enough to be worth planning for rather than discovering. LANTITE results covers that overlap and the release dates it depends on.

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