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A record 4175 year 12 students ditched the ATAR last year and completed VCE without a study score as universities offered new alternative pathways to enrolment.
In all, 8.3 per cent of year 12 students completed an unscored VCE in 2020, data given to
The Age by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority reveals.
Maya Pradhan completed her VCE without a study score last year and has enrolled in an arts degree at Swinburne University.
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It is a modest increase on 2019âs total, when 3810 students went unscored, suggesting the disruption to study caused by the pandemic did not generate a surge in students choosing this option for fear of getting a low ATAR.
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What is the ATAR?
The ATAR is the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, which is a tool designed to assist tertiary institutions when selecting students for courses. It provides an overall measure of a student’s relative performance in their VCE studies.
The ATAR is created by VTAC using the results from a student’s successful completion of the VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education), as assessed and administered by the VCAA (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority).
VCE students will receive a study score from the VCAA for each study a student completes, which reflects their relative performance in that study only. So that institutions can fairly compare students who have chosen different subject combinations, VTAC applies a process of scaling to each study score before it is used in the calculation of the ATAR.
Instead of gaming the system, let s help schools lift their game
Instead of gaming the system, let s help schools lift their game
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For the best part of a century,
The Sydney Morning Herald has published every student’s end-of-school exam results, good or bad. Teenagers would mill outside the old Broadway presses late at night, waiting to intercept the inky pages.
A version of that tradition will continue on Monday, when the
Herald will print the names of the state’s highest achievers.
Julina Lim, from Cabramatta High School, got an ATAR of 99.95.
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Each year, the paper’s education team also analyses public data to find out which schools produced the largest number of top performers, information for which many parents are increasingly hungry as private school fees top $40,000 a year in Sydney.