I have no idea what to do next
Start with the career finder. Five questions, ranked matches from our full career library. Then read up on the pathways that look right.
For Year 12 leavers
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.
Find your starting point
Pick the goal that sounds most like yours. Each path links into the tools and explainers below.
I want to know if a career is worth it
Salary cards, day-in-the-life, and how far the wage actually stretches in each Australian capital city.
I want to start saving or investing
Two free calculators and a stack of plain-English explainers for the financial bits no one teaches in Year 12.
I want to leave Australia for a year
Working holiday visa rules per country, currency converter with provider-fee comparison, travel insurance and tax basics.
Travel and gap year hub
23 country guides with visa, money and Smartraveller links.
Currency converter
AUD to 20 travel currencies, with provider-fee comparison.
Working Holiday Visa tax basics
UK, Ireland, Canada, Japan tax rules for Aussies on a WHV.
Travel insurance for under-25s
What's actually covered, what isn't, and why parents' credit-card cover often fails.
I want a trade or an apprenticeship
19 apprenticeship trades, the TAFE qualifications that map to them, plus the broader 113-career catalogue.
I want to go to uni
Forty universities with course catalogues, ATAR cutoffs, and the careers each degree leads to.
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.
ExamExplained does not provide financial, tax, legal, migration or career advice. The tools and explainers on this site summarise publicly available data and link to the source for every figure. For advice on your circumstances, see a licensed adviser in the relevant field.