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jess3254

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The ENTER is changing its name
« 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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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2009, 06:17:02 pm »
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now we can K-ATAR for the differences between the states. 

See you L-ATAR.
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2009, 06:18:35 pm »
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 06:19:27 pm »
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« Last Edit: June 10, 2009, 06:24:00 pm by Toothpick »
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 07:05:55 pm »
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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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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 07:13:13 pm »
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 08:14:08 pm »
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THATS SO FUNNY.

ATAR sounds so cool.
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2009, 08:19:56 pm »
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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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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2009, 08:28:35 pm »
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haha, the new name is ATAR-ocious
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2009, 08:30:36 pm »
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Quote from: paulii on June 10, 2009, 08:19:56 pm
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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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2009, 08:30:58 pm »
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hmm.. i wonder what my "ATAR" would have been with my "ENTER"
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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2009, 08:52:12 pm »
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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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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2009, 09:10:17 pm »
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Quote from: ming_mong on June 10, 2009, 08:30:58 pm
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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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2009, 09:24:58 pm »
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Quote from: paulii on June 10, 2009, 08:19:56 pm
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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Re: The ENTER is changing its name
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2009, 09:30:56 pm »
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Will the ATAR be out of 100 or 99.95?
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