The final exams are known to be challenging,with some questions set to really test how well students understand a concept or topic. But some questions are harder than others.
“It’s alright,you’re going to do good don’t worry,” one year 12 graduate was told before she opened her result in a video posted to TikTok.
For 17 WA students,opening their results held an additional surprise – a perfect score of 99.95.
The Tertiary Institutions Service Centre revealed 9722 students achieved an ATAR this year.
With certain schools in an ATAR “death spiral”,students’ postcode and income are limiting their ability to choose ATAR subjects – or even sit the exams at all.
Both private and public schools across the state organised the week for students to relax and have fun,before many go on to sit their final ATAR exams.
Students in Year 11 and 12 across WA are often not being taught the syllabus correctly,a new report has found,but teacher shortages and workload could be the reason.
Education Minister Tony Buti said universities were telling him that they were not making unconditional offers,but he was hearing otherwise.
All Saints’ College will be the first in WA to trial a new way of measuring student success at school that goes beyond grades and ATAR.
Their final years of school may have been marred by a once-in-a-century pandemic,but it hasn’t deterred the state’s brightest students from the medical profession.
One school principal reported 87 per cent of year 12s had received early offers. Experts say this is increasingly normal.