How does Better Education rank schools?
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Better Education provides school rankings or ratings based on academic results including
- median VCE study score and percentage of VCE Scores of 40 and over
- percentage of HSC exams sat that achieved a DA (Distinguished Achievers)
- median ATAR score and percentage of TES eligible students with a ATAR <= 65
- QCE median ATAR or percentage of ATAR / IBD students who received an ATAR of 99+, 95+, 90+, 80+
- QCE percentage of OP / IBD students who received an OP 1 to 15 or an IBD
- WACE median ATAR score
- SACE percentage of ATAR / IBD students who received an ATAR of 99+, 95+, 90+, 80+ or median ATAR
- percentage of students in the state's top 1%, 5%, 10% and 20% measured by ATAR. (eg
Best Queensland high schools by ATAR results |
Best SA high schools by ATAR results)
- primary and secondary (Years 7 to 10) school academic results
- best schools by course (
VIC,
NSW,
WA)
- rankings by school sector (
Private School Ranking |
Catholic School Ranking |
Selective School Ranking |
Public School Ranking)
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Better Education provides Year 11 to 12 senior secondary school rankings based on ATAR, VCE, HSC, QCE, WACE, SACE, NTCET, TCE, etc in addition to Years 7-10 secondary ratings.
FAQ: Why is there discrepancy between senior school ranking and high school rating?
Terms explained:
ATAR - Australian Tertiary Admission Rank. ATAR has replaced ENTER, UAI, OP, TER. See more details in the next post.
- VCE - Victorian Certificate of Education
- HSC - Higher School Certificate
- QCE - Queensland Certificate of Education
- WACE - Western Australian Certificate of Education
- SACE - South Australian Certificate of Education
- NTCE - Northern Territory Certificate of Education
- TCE - Tasmanian Certificate of Education
IBD - International Baccalaureate Diploma. IB scores can be converted to ATAR. See How are IB Diploma students considered for entry to tertiary courses in Australia.
You can find the list of schools which offer IBDP here.
NAPLAN - National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy. The first NAPLAN tests were held in May 2008 for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 in Australia. For the first time, students were assessed on the same test items in the domains of Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy. Before 2008, students had undertaken different tests in each state and territory. The average score is 500. The spread of scores has been set so that just over two-thirds of students' scores lie between 400 and 600.
Leaving School Certificate Year 12
Test formats:
Year 12 Students must meet course requirements to sit for a state-wide tests:
- Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)
- Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL)
- NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC)
- The Australian Capital Territory Year 12 Certificate
- Queensland - Student Education Profile (SEP) -
If you are completing Year 12 in Queensland you are considered for entry to tertiary courses based on the SEP, issued in December.
The SEP is made up of two documents – The senior statement and the tertiary entry statement.
- Queensland - Certificate in Post-Compulsory School Education (QCE) - Queensland's senior secondary schooling qualification.
- Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE)
- South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE)
- Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) - The Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) is the highest level of senior secondary certificate awarded in Tasmania. Students need to achieve the TCE to be awarded an ATAR foruniversity entrance.
- Tasmanian - Qualifications Certificate (QC) - The Qualifications Certificate is a certificate available to all Tasmanians who have gained one or more post Year 10 qualifications, accredited or recognised by TASC.
- Tasmanian Certificate of Educational Achievement (TCEA) - The TCEA is designed for students for whom certificates such as the Tasmanian Certificate of Education and the Qualifications Certificate do not provide an adequately just and fair account of their participation and achievements in their senior secondary years.
- Northern Territory Certificate of Education (NTCE)
When: October - November
Purpose: To assess student record of achievement.
Legacy Ranking systems
ENTER - superseded by nationally unified ATAR. The Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank is the percentile ranking based on an applicant's VCE study scores which reflects their performance relative to all other VCE students. VCE results are reported in intervals of 0.05 from 99.95 (ie 99.95, 99.90 etc). Students cannot achieve 100 as they are part of that population and cannot outperform themselves.
UAI - superseded by nationally unified ATAR. The Universities Admission Index is used by universities across Australia for student selection. UAIs represent a rank order of students based on achievement in a specified number of courses and are reported in intervals of 0.05 from 100 (ie 100, 99.95, 99.90 etc). ACT UAIs were equivalent to those in NSW.
TER - superseded by nationally unified ATAR. The Tertiary Entrance Rank is identical to the ENTER in Victoria, and the UAI in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is used in South Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and Western Australia.
OP - The Overall Position (OP) is a tertiary entrance rank used in Queensland. Instead of being a percentile rank (0.00 - 99.95) like the other state TERs, the OP is a number from 1 to 25, where 1 is the highest and 25 is the lowest. An OP is a student's state-wide rank based on overall achievement in QSA-approved subjects. It indicates how well the student has done in comparison to all other OP-eligible students in Queensland.
Students are placed in one of 25 OP bands. The approximate distribution of students across the bands is shown below. For example, in order to achieve an OP1, a student's achievement must be in the top 2% of OP-eligible students in Queensland.
Approximate distribution of students across OP bands:
- Band 1 - about 2% of students
- Bands 2 to 6 - about 19% of students
- Bands 7 to 21 - about 73% of students
- Bands 22 to 24 - about 5% of students
- Band 25 - about 1% of students
TES - Tertiary Entrance Statements.
Note that ENTER, TER, Op and UAI are Superseded by nationally unified ATAR.
ENTER, TER, and UAI are equivalent, ie. the ENTER which is only used in Victoria is identical and equivalent to UAI used in NSW and ACT, and to the Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) used in SA, NT, TAS and WA. The Overall Position (OP) used by Queensland is different, but conversion tables are published each year to convert the OP to or from an ENTER/TER/UAI. For example, an ENTER of 90.00 from Victoria will indicate a sufficiently similar degree of attainment as a UAI of 90.00 from New South Wales.
What's the difference between ENTER and UAI?
- The ENTER perfect score is 99.95 while UAI perfect score is 100. In Victoria, there are about 20 to 30 students who got this perfect score. Because of the size of the group only one student receives UAI 100 in the ACT.
- UAI is not directly equivalent to a percentile rank among those who completed year 12. A UAI of 90 is not equivalent to placing in the top 10% of the state. The TER, the UAI's predecessor, was different because it defined the student population as only students in year 12. The UAI attempts to rank students who did not progress to their senior years of High School by estimating what they would have obtained. Hence the rank is kept consistent throughout the years despite varying year 10 drop-out rates as the rank is always measured relative to a year 10 cohort, with the ranks of the drop-outs being estimated.
TEE subject - a subject for which there is an external examination. Scaled marks from these subjects can be used to gain a tertiary entrance rank (TER).
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