What is an ENTER / ATAR score?
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How is the ENTER / ATAR score calculated?
Basically, the process used to calculate an ENTER / ATAR score is as follows:
- Each of your study scores is scaled (adjusted up or down depending on the strength of competition amongst the cohort of students studying the subject that year).
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The scores are added together to form a number called an "aggregate". The aggregate consists of:
- Scaled score in an English subject (can be English, ESL [English as a Second Language], English Language or Literature). Note that doing an English subject is compulsory in VCE.
- The next three highest scaled scores. These combined with the English subject are referred to as the "Primary 4"
- 10% of any 5th or 6th scaled scores.
- Students are then ranked in order of aggregates. The student with the lowest aggregate on one end, and the student with the highest aggregate on the other end.
The ENTER / ATAR score is a percentile, and represents how many students got a lower aggregate than you. For example, if your ENTER score is 80, that means that your aggregate was higher than 80% of students. 99.95 is the highest ENTER / ATAR available, and means that your aggregate was the highest in the state (and hence you were better than 99.95% of other students).
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