Instead of an OP score of between 1 and 25,the ATAR is a 100-point grade expressed on a scale from"30.00 or less"to 99.95 in increments of 0.05.
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace said experts had already compared OP scores and the new ATAR scheme.
“For example,a student who would be eligible for an OP1 would potentially receive an ATAR of between 98.85 and 99.95,” Ms Grace said.
“An OP10 is roughly equivalent to an ATAR of 78.00.”
ATAR ratings below 30 will be reported as"30.00 or less".
Griffith University academic registrar Kathy Grgic said the move meant Queensland’s year 12 students would be looked at"in a more equitable way” when they applied for courses interstate.
“That is one of the advantages for universities because where we have quite high-demand courses it allows us to put applicants in a much finer-grained order of merit,” she said.