There’s a lot of confusion around how ATARs are calculated — and it’s understandable!
它们非常复杂，并且有许多不同的方面，例如缩放和节制，这可能使您的头很难缠绕。但是请放心，我们在这里为您提供帮助。
Let’s find out how your ATAR is calculated from your HSC results and what it means!
What is an ATAR?
How are ATARs calculated?
What is scaling?
What is moderation?
So, what is an ATAR and what does it do anyway?
ATARs are tricky little things — like everything NESA has going, there’s always a lot more than meets the eye with the way ATARs work. That’s why it’s fundamental that you understand them fully, especially when it comes to things like scaling and moderation!
What is an ATAR?
ATAR是澳大利亚三级入场券RANK。没错，这是RANK, not a mark. Every student receives a rank which tells them where they are positioned (‘ranked’) overall against their Year 7 cohort. This means that there are those who who would not receive an ATAR, but are included for in the ranking.
atar是a number between 0.00 and 99.95 with increments of 0.05.The average is approximately 70.00 as those who did not receive an ATAR are still accounted for.
To put it another way, if you get anATAR of 70.00, you在所有学生中排名前30％那年谁参加了HSC。
Roughly 70,000 students take the HSC each year, which meansyou performed better than 49,000 (or 70%) of your cohort!
Confusing, I know.
What does an ATAR do?
atar是由University Admissions Centre(UAC) to allocate places in courses at universities.It provides a standardised system of how you ranked against someone who completed a completely different combination of courses during the HSC.
How are ATARs calculated?
ATARs are calculated by UAC using a complex formula. It calculates your ATAR based on two components:
- Moderated Assessment Marks (before alignment with the standards); and
- 总检查标记（与标准保持一致之前）。
他们将计算我的ATAR时有哪些单元？
您的ATAR将使用您的：
- Best two units of English; and
- Best eight units from your remaining units, which can include no more than two units ofB类课程。
What is scaling?
Scaling isthe equalising of courses to an objective scale.The easiest way to think about it is like an exchange rate: $AUD1.00 does not necessarily equal €1,00 or £1.00. What the exchange rate does is provide a standard ($1.00), and then compares how many Euros or Pounds it is worth. So for example:
- $AUD1.00 = €0,65
- $AUD1.00 = £0.47
Thus, you can see that $AUD1.00 is worth different amounts in different currencies.
这就是缩放的作用。Scaling compares different marks in different courses。Scaling does not affect your mark; how well you performed in your ranking affects your mark.
What is moderation?
You may have heard one of your friends say ‘They’ll get a better mark because they went to a selective school’ or ‘It doesn’t matter how well they did, they went to X school and that will pull them down’. There is an element of truth in this, but it’s nothing to do with the school itself.
适度是将学校评估标记调整为普通标准化量表，以便可以将评估标记与其他学校进行比较。
For example, if your school marks their assessments harshly so that the average is 54%, and your best friend’s school is quite generous in their marking so that the average is 98%, what moderation would do islook at the difficulty of the examinations, and then the way in which marks are awarded.由此，标记将被调节为共同的量表。
Wondering why your ATAR is lower than your HSC Results?Read on to Part 3 to find out!
If you’ve reached this article and you’re actually studying for the QCE, we’ve got info for you这里！Otherwise, you shouldcheck out some more info on the average ATAR这里。
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Elizabeth Goh不是一个喜欢写自己在第三人on, even if she loves writing. Elizabeth decided she didn’t get enough English, History or Legal Studies at Abbotsleigh School for her own HSC in 2010 so she came back to help others survive it with Art of Smart Education. She’s since done a mish-mash of things with her life which includes studying a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and International Relations) with a Bachelor of Laws at Macquarie University, working for NSW Parliament, and fangirling over a Tweet from her favourite singer.
