'There's a lot of unknowns': Queensland's 'guinea-pig' students sit for ATAR exams for first time

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More than 37,000 Queensland Year 12 students are embarking on crucial external exams for the first time in the state, rounding off a senior year dominated by COVID-19 chaos.

More than 37,000 Queensland Year 12 students are embarking on crucial external exams for the first time in the state, rounding off a senior year dominated by coronavirus chaos.The class of 2020 was also first to attend Prep and go through Year 7 in high schoolThe so-called "guinea pig" cohort will join graduates around the country in receiving an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank instead of an OP score.

Griffith University's Dean of Education, Professor Donna Pendergast, with her Year 12 daughter Kyrra Wilks. "I think we've done everything we can to prepare the Year 12s for the new system, but it has been difficult because of COVID," Mr Rider said. "You can have confidence that the result you got in one school is exactly the same as the result you would get had you gone to another school."

 

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