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Subscriber only After a challenging year of remote learning and being the first Queensland Year 12 cohort to navigate the ATAR system, Sunshine Coast students had their hard work pay off. Out of the more than 26,000 Queensland students who received an ATAR, only 30 achieved a rank of 99.95 - the highest possible score. Matthew Flinders student Justin Holland was one of only 30 QLD students to receive the highest ATAR score possible. It has been revealed that several of those students are from the Coast, as schools from around the region begin to release their results. The data is based on the results of students who chose to share their ATAR with their schools.
Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre blames technical blunder for incorrect ATAR notice
Education by Jack McKay
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Subscriber only Queensland Year 12 graduates have been wrongfully told they were ATAR ineligible in a technical blunder that has impacted tens of thousands of students. The Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre was conducting an internal test of their ATAR processes overnight when the testing results rolled over to their live production space . They have confirmed ATAR notifications were issued to 24,000 Queensland Year 12 students, who may have been told in the notification that they were ATAR ineligible. QTAC chief executive John Griffiths issued an apology to the Year 12 cohort this morning for the technical error.
An IT bungle has left thousands of Queensland Year 12 students angry and upset after they were sent a late-night email saying they wouldn t be getting a university entrance score.
The message from the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre landed in inboxes just after midnight on Saturday telling 24,0000 students they were ineligible for an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, vital for their entry to university.
It left them stressed and angry, many taking to social media to express outrage. Can you explain why, at 12:03AM, myself and many other former Year 12 students received an email stating that we were ineligible for an ATAR rank? Lochlan Ibbertson asked on the QTAC s Facebook page.