Life after school
The practical playbook for the year after you finish Year 12. Money tools, career discovery, gap-year planning and country guides. Built by ExamExplained, free, no signup, no ads.
Pick the goal that sounds most like yours. Each path links into the tools and explainers below.
Start with the career finder. Five questions, ranked matches from our full career library. Then read up on the pathways that look right.
Salary cards, day-in-the-life, and how far the wage actually stretches in each Australian capital city.
Two free calculators and a stack of plain-English explainers for the financial bits no one teaches in Year 12.
Working holiday visa rules per country, currency converter with provider-fee comparison, travel insurance and tax basics.
23 country guides with visa, money and Smartraveller links.
AUD to 20 travel currencies, with provider-fee comparison.
UK, Ireland, Canada, Japan tax rules for Aussies on a WHV.
What's actually covered, what isn't, and why parents' credit-card cover often fails.
19 apprenticeship trades, the TAFE qualifications that map to them, plus the broader 113-career catalogue.
Forty universities with course catalogues, ATAR cutoffs, and the careers each degree leads to.
40 unis, real ATAR cutoffs, course catalogue indexed by career.
Pick the careers you want, surface every degree that leads there with ATAR cutoff per uni.
HSC, VCE and QCE estimators built from public scaling reports.
State-by-state rules at UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC and TISC.
Why this exists
ExamExplained started as a syllabus and exam library. Once Year 12 finishes, you stop needing NESA dot-points and start needing the things no one teaches at school: how HECS actually works, how working-holiday visas are taxed, what compound interest does to a $5,000 starting balance, which career fits your interests, and where the cheap flights to Japan run from. This page maps the tools we have for that second job, in the order most useful for school leavers.