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# 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:

| Section                                    | What it holds                                      |
| ------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------- |
| Auto-matched inside the program structure  | Every target course is in the program's curriculum |
| Auto-matched outside the program structure | At least one target is not                         |

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.

> **Note**
>
> 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](/curriculum-structures).