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Does ‘university access for all’ mean lowering standards?
This is a very interesting article by David Gough, shared here today from The Conversation. What is useful here is to pay attention to the detail provided that serves to clarify statistics that, on face value, may mislead. When researching university courses it is wise to check information on graduate outcomes, pass rates and […]
Providing advice to Year 10 students: scaling and the ATAR
This blog is from VTAC May 20, 2014 • Helping year 10 students make study choicesAll VCE studies are treated equally in the calculation of the ATAR The ATAR represents a students’ overall performance in their VCE studies, not just in one or two studies. In order to make sure that all studies are treated […]
Are you ready for your ATAR?
On Monday 16th December secondary school students around Victoria, Australia will receive their Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results and ATAR Score. If you happen to be reading this blog in other part of the world, you will be wondering what this is all about. Clearly it is something to do with an important qualification, but when […]