Credit results
The outcome you read back is the end of a review an assessor does in the portal. How that review is laid out explains two things you will see in the data: why credit sometimes lands against a course that looks unrelated to the program, and why some matches are granted immediately while others wait.
Matched inside, matched outside
A match is a rule saying “this prior study earns credit for these courses”. Whether those courses are part of the program applied for is a separate question, and the Result tab answers it by splitting the matches in two:
Each section reports its own count and credit-point total, so an assessor can see at a glance how much of the credit is straightforwardly applicable.
A match lands outside if any of its target courses is outside. A match that fills one course the program teaches and one it does not is still a decision the assessor has to make deliberately, so it is not quietly filed as if it were ordinary.
Why the outside ones are kept rather than discarded
The obvious thing would be to drop them: this program does not teach that course, so the match is irrelevant. It is not.
A match against a course the program does not teach is usually evidence that the applicant has done the work — it just has nowhere specific to land. That is the definition of unspecified or elective credit, and it is often the right outcome. Discarding those matches would throw away the only evidence for it.
So they are shown separately and an assessor decides, rather than being filtered away before anyone sees them.
When the curriculum is not known
The split depends on knowing the program’s curriculum. For a program Advance holds no curriculum for, there is nothing to compare against, and the sections collapse into one reading simply Auto-matched credit — the honest answer, rather than filing everything as “inside” on an assumption.
If you want the split to work for a program, load its curriculum — see Curriculum structures.