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Flat White

Competition is essential to education

20 December 2024

6:12 PM

20 December 2024

6:12 PM

As night follows day, whenever the Year 12 ATAR results are released critics argue it must be replaced. Instead of being a fair, reliable, and objective measure of a student’s academic ability, it’s condemned as inequitable, unfair, and stressful.

The think-tank Learning Creates Australia has released a recent report titled The Whole Learning which critiques Year 12 examinations, including the ATAR ranking.

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