This section contains resources to help schools, parents/carers, and medical and health professionals understand and implement AARA.
About AARA
- Introduction to AARA (PDF, 193.7 KB)
- Reasonable adjustments in assessment (PDF, 190.6 KB)
- AARA in context (PDF, 746.3 KB)
- Video: Understanding AARA
- AARA online course
- Sorry Business and Sad News (PDF, 155.3 KB)
- School process checklist (DOCX, 252.0 KB)
- Students with imputed disability (PDF, 170.8 KB)
- Illness and misadventure (PDF, 184.6 KB)
- Completing an AARA application (PDF, 185.1 KB)
- AARA supporting documentation (PDF, 198.4 KB)
Templates
Note that use of QCAA templates is not compulsory. Required information may be submitted in alternative formats.
- Confidential school statement template (DOCX, 241.9 KB)
- Confidential medical report template (DOCX, 229.6 KB)
- Confidential student statement template (DOCX, 329.4 KB)
- Confidential school statement on illness and misadventure in external assessment (DOCX, 284.0 KB)
- Confidential school statement on imputed disability (DOCX, 235.1 KB)
- AARA reflection template (DOCX, 214.6 KB)
Implementing AARA
- Diabetes management in examinations and tests (PDF, 170.4 KB)
- Extra time in examinations and tests (PDF, 162.7 KB)
- Rest breaks in examinations and tests (PDF, 185.1 KB)
- Readers and scribes in examinations and tests (PDF, 171.8 KB)
- UPDATED Computers and assistive technology (PDF, 250.5 KB)
- UPDATED Computers and assistive technology in external assessment (PDF, 219.7 KB)
- NEW Assistance in examinations and tests (PDF, 131.5 KB)
- Last updated:
- 10 September 2025
