Migration Education
Points-tested skilled migration, explained without the jargon
Age, English, qualifications, experience and partner factors combine into a single number. The number is simple. Getting there rarely is.
The points test itself is not complicated arithmetic — age, English ability, skilled employment, qualifications, and partner skills each contribute a fixed number of points, and they add up. What is complicated is knowing, honestly, where you sit and what would move that number.
Where people misjudge their position
Overestimating English test results, assuming overseas employment counts the same as it would locally, and assuming a qualification is automatically "skilled employment" are the three most common sources of an inflated self-assessment. A realistic count starts with source documents, not memory.
The number is not the whole story
A competitive points total gets you into contention. It does not guarantee an invitation, because invitations are issued against a threshold that moves with demand in your occupation. Two people with the same score can have very different prospects depending on their occupation's competition.
What we do with the number
We establish it properly, identify which levers — English retesting, additional qualifications, further employment, partner skills, state nomination — are realistically available to you, and set out what each is worth against what it costs in time.
Your occupation is only one part of the migration strategy.