3a/3b - Churchlands Senior High School

REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONSchool Leavers will have to meet the following four requirements for courses at CurtinUniversity, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and The University of WesternAustralia in order to gain direct entry to University.NOTE: Most Universities in Western Australia offer alternative pathways to University.Please see Mrs Clare Slodecki (Careers Advisor) for further details.Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) Achievement of WACE is amandatory requirement by all universities. If any of your Year 12 students completedYear 11 overseas or interstate then your school will need to seek credit from theCurriculum Council to ensure these studies count towards achieving WACE.Competence in EnglishCompetence in English is usually achieved by a scaled score of at least 50 in English,English as an Additional Language Dialect (EALD) for eligible students, or Literature,in stage 2 or stage 3. The universities will also concede competence in English on thebasis of standardised exam or standardised moderated school assessments.Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR)The TEA is calculated by adding a student's best four scaled scores. These may be inany combination of courses at stage 2 and stage 3, subject to unacceptablecombinations. No course can be counted more than once. Stage 2 and stage 3 of thesame WACE course cannot both count. Students can accumulate scaled scores frompast TEE subjects and courses from 2007, subject to unacceptable combinations.PrerequisitesSome university courses have pre-requisites. Generally, a scaled score of 50 or morein stage 3 of a course is required to meet the prerequisite.THE AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY ADMISSION RANK (ATAR)The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) is the basis of admission to mostuniversity courses. Students ranked in order of merit based on the ATAR whichranges from zero to 99.95. The ATAR determines rank relative to all other WAstudents of Year 12 School leaving age. An ATAR of 75.00 indicates that a studenthas an overall rating equal to or better than 75% of the Year 12 school leaving agepopulation in Western Australia. The ATAR is calculated using scaled scores incourses.SCALING AND INCREMENTSAll course results will be scaled to ensure fairness to all students. Unless otherwisespecified, references to scaled scores in this section mean the final scaled scoreobtained in either stage 2 or stage 3 of a WACE course.. The Average Marks Scalingprocess is used to scale marks obtained in stage 2 or stage 3 of a course. For a fullexplanation and diagram of the process, see Marks Adjustment Process for UniversityAdmission at www.tisc.edu.au19