Queensland has a unique approach to grading Year 11 and 12 students for entry to university. Called the Overall Position (or OP) system, the current version has been in place since 1992. It is much ...

Data sourced by The Courier-Mail has revealed the priciest independent educations and their most recent ATAR scores, as well as how some of the cheaper school compared. The results show parents don’t ...

Until this year, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s annual Year 12 Outcomes Report detailed how every school’s senior students performed, including how many received top OP scores, ...

Sophie O’Reilly, who left her home in Sydney to study a Bachelor of Urban Development at Queensland University of Technology, said she knew first-hand how effective the ATAR system was. From Year 10 ...