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).