Does someone get 1 as their ATAR score?

[brenden]

0, actually.

Actually? (refer above reply)

[abeybaby]

weve been through this, lowest is 1.6, which i assume would round to 2.
Re: Lowest study score possible?

[lala1911]

I can't stop laughing right now. Scoring a 1.6 study score. I'd be so ashamed to even live. Before I even started year 11, I looked at some of the Exams for I.T and P.E and I reckon I could've scored 30% for I.T and 10% for P.E by just plain common sense. I'm more interested to meet someone who scored a 1.6 study score than someone who scores a 50, lol.

[spectroscopy]

theyre all probably drop outs or massive trolls, you have to actively try to get such a low score
 a kid at my previous school only did chinese because he is chinese and his parents wanted him to do it but wanted to go to tafe not uni, he purposely 0'd every sac and exam, idk what study score he got though, probably scaled to 20 anyway LMAO



edit: grammar

[Professor Polonsky]

Actually? (refer above reply)

Ahh yes, fair enough. I wasn't thinking about it that way at all. I was going by

The normalised scores are then converted to a scale with a mean of 30 and standard deviation of 7, truncated at 0 and 50. This
produces a possible study score ranging from 0 to 50, with most study scores between 23 and 37.

But of course, you'd need someone to actually fit that position of a zero in the bell curve, which doesn't happen. There would be as many study scores below 10 in a subject as there are 50s, presumably.

I stand corrected

I think the more interesting question is what your ATAR would be with the lowest aggregate possible (or just the lowest in a certain year). I'm not sure whether it'd be zero, as anyone who completes year 7 and is not enrolled in VCE is apparently placed at the bottom of the ATAR pile.

[TommyLie]

A mate of mine got 16 in methods last year.

[spectroscopy]

did he not do any sacs or exams or?

[simba]

I remember a few people from my school getting ATAR's of about 13 or so..

[slothpomba]

Well 27 =/= 1... Anyway I know someone who got 25 on Methods

But is it actually possible to get 1?

I think getting a 25 as a study score would be a lot more common than an atar of 1. Whilst it might sound surprising, you can get a study score of 25 and still score high by most standards, especially if you have >4 subjects, which almost everyone does.

One of my mates got 27 as stated on the letter in the mail, so I don't think you have to request it.

This happened at my school too.

I can't stop laughing right now. Scoring a 1.6 study score. I'd be so ashamed to even live. Before I even started year 11, I looked at some of the Exams for I.T and P.E and I reckon I could've scored 30% for I.T and 10% for P.E by just plain common sense. I'm more interested to meet someone who scored a 1.6 study score than someone who scores a 50, lol.

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There are a lot of kind of special cases and peculiarities in the way they calculate ATAR. I'm fairly sure it still includes people who have dropped out. There are plenty of people who do year 12 just because they feel like they need to or dont have much better else lined up right then. There are some jobs that actually do need you to complete year 12 but they don't really care what score you get. Likewise, at our school, they pushed people complete year 12 because all things considered surely having gone to year 12 when applying for things and maybe going back for education later on is better than not doing it, so, plenty of people stayed in just for that.

There has to be people in each score bracket, it's a relative measure of how well you did scaled compared to everyone else. So, there must be people who got an atar of 1 (and 1.05, 1.10 and so on).

[JMoxey]

One of my mates got an ATAR of 15.20... Yeah... Most of his subject study scores were under 10... LOL.

[Dejan]

Believe it or not but my mate got a ATAR of 4 lmao. He didn't go to any exams, failed a few sacs and did okay in the rest of his sac's

[vox nihili]

Last year we had quite a few people with ATARs below 5. The VTAC reporting service stuffed up and reported what the actual atars are, instead of saying <30

[pi]

Hmm, can we not bump threads without good reason to?

Cheers.

[Professor Polonsky]

Yes, someone gets 1 for their ATAR.



(Although this is data for WA, all ATAR States but Tasmania basically use the same system with slight modifications.)