ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: jess3254 on June 10, 2009, 06:09:29 pm
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Since the late 1990s each state (except Queensland) has used a common measure to rank Year 12 students for university admission. In each state this measure has had different names:
* ENTER (Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank) in Victoria
* TER (Tertiary Entrance Rank) in Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania
* UAI (Universities Admission Index) in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
The Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admissions Centres (ACTAC), of which the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) is a member, has agreed that all states and territories (except Queensland) will replace these different names with a common name, the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), during 2009 and 2010.
In Victoria the term ENTER will be replaced with the term ATAR in 2010. This is a name change only. There is no change to the calculation and it will have no effect on students’ ranking or the selection process.
The adoption by all states and territories (except Queensland) of the name Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) over the 2009 and 2010 period reinforces that the measures of overall achievement of Year 12 students in these states are the same.
How lovely.
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now we can K-ATAR for the differences between the states.
See you L-ATAR.
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LOL
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LOL
That haha.
THIS IS SP-ATAR
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I just did a little bit of Googling and along with jessie's e-mail I've got a bit of evidence to support this.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25611376-12332,00.html
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THATS SO FUNNY.
ATAR sounds so cool.
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can someone just sum up why they have changed it from ENTER to ATAR in all states now xcept qld?
brain dead and major cbf reading atm
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haha, the new name is ATAR-ocious
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can someone just sum up why they have changed it from ENTER to ATAR in all states now xcept qld?
brain dead and major cbf reading atm
Queensland has a completely different scoring system from the rest of Australia that makes it hard to change.
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hmm.. i wonder what my "ATAR" would have been with my "ENTER"
lol
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ENTER just makes so much more sense... it's like a pun or something isn't it? (Cause its a score used to ENTER uni?... thats what iv always thought LMAO)
and yes i obviously do realise its an acronym.
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hmm.. i wonder what my "ATAR" would have been with my "ENTER"
lol
It would have stayed the same. Everyone's would. It's just a name change >_>
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can someone just sum up why they have changed it from ENTER to ATAR in all states now xcept qld?
brain dead and major cbf reading atm
Their system is quite different, involving no external examinations i.e. what we just did in the past 2 days, they don't do.
Its all in house SAC style testing.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Will the ATAR be out of 100 or 99.95?
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99.95
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Will the ATAR be out of 100 or 99.95?
99.95
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Hmm, that makes it somewhat strange. After all, the UAI's out of 100, so students in the top 0.05% in Victoria would be given scores equal to students in the top 0.1% in NSW..
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Nah they're just changing the name at the moment. This is just prior to the implementation of the Australian Certificate of Education
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Hmm, that makes it somewhat strange. After all, the UAI's out of 100, so students in the top 0.05% in Victoria would be given scores equal to students in the top 0.1% in NSW..
They announced that the maximum UAI will be changed to 99.95.
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"Achieving an ATAR of 99.95 will be the same as achieving a UAI of 100 and the ATAR will indicate a student's position in relation to the year 7 students they began high school with, rather than the year 10 group, as has been the case."
I don't quite understand this.
Also, is it pronounced Ah-tar (like star) or Ay-ter (like circular)? Or is it an either/or thing for maximum pun-age?
Nah they're just changing the name at the moment. This is just prior to the implementation of the Australian Certificate of Education
That's ace.
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Will the ATAR be out of 100 or 99.95?
They said only the name changes
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If only the name changes, that's stupid.
That mean's that the highest possible ATAR will always be higher in NSW (100) than VIC (99.95). :S
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If only the name changes, that's stupid.
That mean's that the highest possible ATAR will always be higher in NSW (100) than VIC (99.95). :S
Theyre changing the whole "I got a 100" thing in NSW, theyre moving down to 99.95. Well, thats what the guy on 774 said =/
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What a stupid name. At least ENTER means something
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ENTER sounds waaay better
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It does.
"What's your AH-TAR?"
doesn't sound right does it
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Haha this is hilarious.
ATAR Score =D Gonna take a while to get used to.
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lol in that ATAR pronunciation thread, the second poster's signature is hilarious:
"My math teacher staples burger king applications to failed tests."
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ENTER just makes so much more sense... it's like a pun or something isn't it? (Cause its a score used to ENTER uni?... thats what iv always thought LMAO)
and yes i obviously do realise its an acronym.
All those years ago when I first heard the term ENTER I also thought of this. It's logical. ENTER = A score to get entry to University. It makes sense even before you find out its an acronym.
ATAR.. just doesn't sit right with me. Sounds like an Arabic city or something.
lol in that ATAR pronunciation thread, the second poster's signature is hilarious:
"My math teacher staples burger king applications to failed tests."
That is goldddd.
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Well technically the UAI also gets you into TAFE, which is a tertiary institution. So Australian Tertiary Admission Rank is more PC I guess.
EDIT: whoops I meant UAI not ENTER :P
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Lols looks like danial15 (i think thats right?) has to change the enter calculator to the ATAR calculator :P
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Aye-TAR sounds better than Ah-TAR @ least (imo...)
Regardless, the idiot who thought it up is an Ah-TARd.
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haha, the new name is ATAR-ocious
shit joke
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haha, the new name is ATAR-ocious
shit joke
Lol!
Aww... *Pat pats Admin*
It's ok... mine was much worse.
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Sounds Atarded.
edit: damn you firefly!