A person is eligible to receive an equivalent tertiary entrance ranking by the authority as a basis for tertiary entrance if—
(a) the person is not an Australian citizen nor permanent resident; and
(b) the person has completed, or is taken under a guideline to have completed, 20 semester units in the study of tertiary entrance subjects, including 4 semester units in each of 3 particular tertiary entrance subjects; and
(c) the person finished senior secondary education at an assessing school; and
(d) subject to sections 78 and 153—
(i) the person has taken the core skills test made available by the authority in the year the person finished senior secondary education; and
(ii) the person's grading in the test has been decided by the authority.