About S•A•M

An International Passport to Learning

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The South Australian Matriculation (S•A•M) program is an internationally recognised one-year pre-university matriculation program administered by the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA).

It provides an opportunity for students to study in their own country and build upon their local pre-matriculation studies. It is now the most popular Australian-based pre-university program in Malaysia, where it has been taught since 1982. It is now also being taught in China.

Students who successfully complete the S•A•M are accredited with the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE), an award that is recognised within the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) . Students are provided with a university aggregate score (out of 90 marks) and a tertiary entrance rank (TER), a percentile ranking that is recognised without modification by all tertiary selection agencies in Australia, and used by universities around the world to select students for degree courses.

The S•A•M Program has given more than 25,000 students access to the SACE in their own country and has led to their acceptance by universities across the world, including in Australia, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Advantages

The S•A•M offers:

• proven learning techniques tailored to university study
• a balanced choice of subjects leading to a variety of university degree courses
• a mixture of school assessments and external examinations that assess students fairly
• the flexibility for students to complete the program over an extended period
• an opportunity for students to increase their tertiary entrance rank by repeating subjects without penalty.

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