Life Science Technician — Victorian Points Test

What this occupation scores, what it is ranked against, and the highest total it can reach on Victoria’s points test for the subclass 190 and 491 visas.

Skill level is worked out from the ANZSCO code

Life Science Technician is ANZSCO skill level 2. On the Victorian Points Test, only skill level 1 occupations score points for this factor — 50 of them. Levels 2 and 3 score zero. That means this occupation scores 0 here, and tops out 50 points below a skill level 1 occupation.

What you are ranked against

Life Science Technician is not on Victoria’s 2026–27 priority list. It is still eligible — Registrations of Interest in any eligible occupation can be invited — but only through the most competitive stream, ranked against the whole pool rather than within a smaller group.

The highest total this occupation can reach

The Victorian Points Test is scored out of 950. For Life Science Technician the ceiling is 900.

There is a second ceiling worth knowing about: the earnings factor counts only current skilled employment in Victoria, and it is worth up to 150 points. If you are applying from outside Victoria, or are not in skilled work here, your realistic maximum is 750.

There is no pass mark

Victoria does not publish a score you need to reach. It ranks every Registration of Interest from highest to lowest and invites from the top down in each round, so the only thing that matters is how your total compares with everyone else nominating Life Science Technician. You also need at least 65 points on the separate federal SkillSelect test.

Work out your score for Life Science Technician

On the STSOL skilled list. See also the full Victorian Points Test tables and Victoria’s priority occupations.