How to calculate your ATAR from trial/past paper marks (4 Viewers)

[academic_reaper]

This gave a 99.55 atar... and i used uac later only to give me a 97.05

I wish we had smth rlly accurate and on the dot than having to estimate and do this on our own.

 

[its_ace21]

This gave a 99.55 atar... and i used uac later only to give me a 97.05

I wish we had smth rlly accurate and on the dot than having to estimate and do this on our own.

iirc the uac one was the most accurate for mine

 

[academic_reaper]

iirc the uac one was the most accurate for mine

Icic, still harsh ngl :[

 

[carrotsss]

This gave a 99.55 atar... and i used uac later only to give me a 97.05

I wish we had smth rlly accurate and on the dot than having to estimate and do this on our own.

UAC's ATAR Compass and this calculator are for completely different purposes, you can't compare the results from either. There's an explanation of why this is the case on the original post, but to simplify, my calculator takes raw marks and calculators like UAC take aligned marks. UAC is quite accurate for aligned marks, but aligned marks are not the mark you get in the exam, your raw marks are aligned (sometimes adding as much as 30 to your mark!) to produce the marks NESA actually gives you in December (the ones UAC ATAR Compass is designed for), and you have to pay them like $60 to get your real raw exam marks - you can see examples at https://rawmarks.info.

My ATAR calculator could still be over-estimating your ATAR though, because it's only as accurate as the marks you put in. If you're putting in your overall school assessment average, don't do that (your random presentations are not comparable to the actual HSC exam), and if you're putting in your trial marks, just keep in mind that if your trials were easier than the 2022 HSC then I can't account for that. It also can't account for if your school ranks are significantly worse/better than how you relatively do in the HSC.

The most accurate use case for my calculator is if you take the 2022 HSC past papers and mark them fairly, and then put in those marks, and if you do this, it's pretty much as accurate as an ATAR calculator of this kind possibly could be.

Other ATAR calculators are useful but for a different purpose, they are mostly designed for the period between 6am and 9am on HSC results day when you have your aligned marks but don't yet have your ATAR, or for if you estimate your results based on rankings and your school's past b6 rate in subjects, but unfortunately, pretty much none of the ATAR calculators clearly advertise this (with many spreading straight up misinformation), and honestly I think NESA is at fault for this with their highly opaque system that leaves most students/teachers confused and with major misunderstandings of the system that leads a lot of students to think they'll do much worse than they actually do.

 

[academic_reaper]

Ohh yh now that l think about it, makes more sense, thanks!

UAC's ATAR Compass and this calculator are for completely different purposes, you can't compare the results from either. There's an explanation of why this is the case on the original post, but to simplify, my calculator takes raw marks and calculators like UAC take aligned marks. UAC is quite accurate for aligned marks, but aligned marks are not the mark you get in the exam, your raw marks are aligned (sometimes adding as much as 30 to your mark!) to produce the marks NESA actually gives you in December (the ones UAC ATAR Compass is designed for), and you have to pay them like $60 to get your real raw exam marks - you can see examples at https://rawmarks.info.

My ATAR calculator could still be over-estimating your ATAR though, because it's only as accurate as the marks you put in. If you're putting in your overall school assessment average, don't do that (your random presentations are not comparable to the actual HSC exam), and if you're putting in your trial marks, just keep in mind that if your trials were easier than the 2022 HSC then I can't account for that. It also can't account for if your school ranks are significantly worse/better than how you relatively do in the HSC.

The most accurate use case for my calculator is if you take the 2022 HSC past papers and mark them fairly, and then put in those marks, and if you do this, it's pretty much as accurate as an ATAR calculator of this kind possibly could be.

Other ATAR calculators are useful but for a different purpose, they are mostly designed for the period between 6am and 9am on HSC results day when you have your aligned marks but don't yet have your ATAR, or for if you estimate your results based on rankings and your school's past b6 rate in subjects, but unfortunately, pretty much none of the ATAR calculators clearly advertise this (with many spreading straight up misinformation), and honestly I think NESA is at fault for this with their highly opaque system that leaves most students/teachers confused and with major misunderstandings of the system that leads a lot of students to think they'll do much worse than they actually do.