From 2020, ANU will require students to meet co-curricular requirements alongside ATAR. This significant policy shift is meant to improve equity of access, but won’t change much.
- Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
Students should consider all their options and remember the ATAR is just one measure that doesn’t necessarily dictate how well they will do in future.
The government has announced it will accept recommendations to make the university admissions process more transparent. But that alone isn’t enough.
The government wants to make the university admissions process more transparent as a way to provide greater choice. But this fails to recognise how the system currently works.
The ATAR is being used less and less as the sole measure that universities use to select students. It’s time to question its value and the pressure it puts on students in year 12.
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