Warnings issued over ATAR calculations – New South Wales school leavers could go online to determine university admissions indicator.
It comes after some HSC students were given access to their exam results on Saturday, five days ahead of schedule, due to a computer failure.
“This is really dangerous because the ATAR could end up being completely different because of the scale,” NSW Education Minister Prue Car told 9News.
Some HSC students were given access to their exam results on Saturday, five days ahead of schedule, due to a computer failure (9News) Warnings have now been issued about ATAR calculations students can make who have finished school to determine the university admission indicator. (9 News)
“This will cause a lot of anxiety.”
And there is also anxiety for those students who did not discover their subject marks had increased in their online student account until after their results were withdrawn.
Now students like Fleur Davies have to wait until the original launch day on Thursday before they can find out more.
“I’m surprised I couldn’t log in in time, you know, scared for the next 7 days because some of my friends got really good results and I’m just waiting in the dark,” said the Bishop Druitt College student on 9News.
Prue Carr, the shadow minister for education, has said that online calculations could cause anxiety. (9News) Students like Fleur Davies have to wait until Thursday’s original launch day to find out more (9News)
Students started accessing their results from 1am, and the URL went viral on the HSC Facebook discussion group, which has more than 32,000 members – that’s almost half the class of the state of 2022.
The site was finally shut down more than nine hours later, at 10:30am.
“We just apologize for any confusion or distress this may have caused,” NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell told 9News.
The New South Wales Education Standards Authority is investigating the incident after NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell apologized for the error. (Nick Moir)
“I have made it clear to NESA that I am not happy with what has happened and I want a full explanation.”
The New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) is now investigating the incident.
“Now we’re going to have to go through the week exactly what happened in that period or that window of time and then we’re going to make sure we can put safeguards in place for 2023,” NESA CEO Paul Martin told 9News.