How do ATARs work?

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Like?? Is it calculated through my grade? My GPA? My exams?? The uni I wanna go to needs an 80 ATAR but how do I make sure that happens if I can’t find a straight answer on it??

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You can’t calculate your own Australian Tertiary Admission Rank score because it is a comparative ranking. Scores in all your subjects are scaled according to difficulty and then added together, forming a score which is compared against your peers.

This means to get an 80 ATAR you would need to do as well or better than 80% of your peers. You can’t know how well your peers will do in advance so you can’t know what your score needs to be. All you can do is your best.

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