Aggregates and Study Scores

[Tyleralp1]

Hey all,

Recently, I've been playing around with the ATAR calculator just to give me an idea of the scores I need to attain a particular score. Obviously, given the same scores, a different aggregate is produced each year - resulting in a different ATAR.

What I'm wondering is, say if you got a 40 in a year when the general aggregate scores are lower, would that mean in a year where the aggregate scores were higher, you'd score something like a 41. Or, is it more or less the same (top 8%) and then the scaling each year compensates for all that?

Hopefully that makes sense

[Professor Polonsky]

Neither. There is no guarantee that in a particular study you'd score better (either your study score or your subject score), simply because the aggregate requirements are higher.