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Re: ENTER / ATAR calculator (estimator)
« Reply #270 on: November 10, 2012, 03:24:31 pm »
How accurate is the calc?

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Re: ENTER / ATAR calculator (estimator)
« Reply #271 on: November 10, 2012, 03:38:28 pm »
How accurate is the calc?
It gets updated annually with the correct scaling for each subject when they're released by VCAA though the calculator is and pretty accurate! I haven't heard of many complaints about it being inaccurate either.

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Re: ENTER / ATAR calculator (estimator)
« Reply #272 on: November 10, 2012, 03:40:44 pm »
Give or take a little bit, because I think I remember Daniel saying that it comes off that scaling table with the intervals of 5 SS's, so there are little discrepancies, but its accurate with that data thats other there. Putting my subjects in from last year, it gets pretty close to the actual ATAR I got in the end.

tl;dr, its accurate to the approximations in the scaling table.
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Re: ENTER / ATAR calculator (estimator)
« Reply #273 on: November 10, 2012, 05:10:03 pm »
Yes, Daniel modelled it to be linear, but in reality, scaling is not linear, between the intervals on the scaling report.