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Higher ENTER scores are found more often for students studying mathematics and languages other than English (LOTE), especially when they also attended a non-Government ‘Other Independent’ school. 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In particular, students undertaking mathematics and languages other than English (LOTE) tend to gain higher scores than students taking other combinations of subjects, but if they have also attended a non-Government ‘Other Independent’ school, results are even higher.  \nIntroduction  \nThis paper considers the school-based performance of students who commenced university courses in 1995 and 1999. It is based on an analysis of the distribution of subjects taken by students in the final two years of school and how these subjects relate to students’ overall performance (expressed in terms of tertiary entry scores), and the influence of the type of school attended by students (Government, Catholic or Other Independent) .  \nIn Australia, education (including secondary education) is the responsibility of state / territory governments, and each has its own (or shares) a tertiary admissions centre. This paper is restricted to the state of Victoria, from which it was possible to obtain suitably disaggregated data. Victoria had around 28% of Australia’s Year 12 enrolments in 1998. The analysis below was undertaken using data on applicants who enrolled in university courses in 1995 and 1999, obtained from the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) .  \nYear 12 assessment and university entrance: background  \nAs secondary education curriculum, assessment and university entrance procedures are State-based responsibilities, they are different in different jurisdictions. In the state of Victoria, the current Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) was introduced in 1992, replacing the High School Certificate (HSC), the Tertiary Orientation Program (TOP) and Technical Year 12 programs.  \nThe VCE measures student achievement in both Years 11 and 12. There are about 43 ‘studies’(subjects) in the VCE. Most studies have four units, each lasting one semester. Units 1 and 2 are usually taken in Year 11, and units 3 and 4 in Year 12. Units 1 and 2 are taken as single units, whereas units 3 and 4 must betaken as a sequence.  \nCandidates applying to enter university courses after completion of VCE receive an overall measure of how well they performed, in the form of a ‘tertiary entry rank’, called the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) . An ENTER is only awarded to successful students who have met tertiary entrance requirements, and it is used to select the majority of students entering tertiary education in Victoria. The calculation of the ENTER is based on the satisfactory completion of units 3 and 4.  \nNearly all tertiary courses make some use of the ENTER, but not all students are selected on the basis of the ENTER alone (VTAC p4) . A process of ‘scaling’, to allow for the assessment of comparable performance by students undertaking different VCE studies, is undertaken, which may lead to an adjustment upwards or downwards in the ENTER scores of some students. In addition, Languages other than English (LOTE) have an adjustment upwards of five points, in line with State and Federal  \ngovernment policies to promote non-English languages. Students ultimately receive an ENTER of between 0 and 99.95, although results below 30 are not reported unless the individual requests it. A student achieving an ENTER of 99.95 has outperformed 99.95% of all students.  \nIn 1998, there were 45,364 students enrolled in Year 12 in Victoria, 20,609 of which gained university admission in 1999. In 1995, 21,617 students entered university from school the previous year.1 Table 1 summarises the distribution of these students’ ENTER scores. Some courses (eg in Design) rely much less  \nTable 1. School-leaver students enro","cbCaibv4bQQSo0y1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibv4bQQSo0y1","pdf",491187,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Year 12 assessment and university entrance: background\n# VCE studies and ENTER calculation\n# Distribution of ENTER scores (1995 vs 1999)\n# Discussion of scoring methodology and scaling","[{\"question\":\"What main relationship does the paper investigate between Year 12 subjects and university entry scores?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates how different Year 12 subject combinations are associated with tertiary entry performance, measured through ENTER scores, for students in Victoria.\"},{\"question\":\"Why can students’ ENTER scores be higher than their study scores in some cases?\",\"answer\":\"Because a scaling process adjusts ENTER scores to account for differences in VCE study assessments across subjects and competition strength.\"},{\"question\":\"How does studying LOTEs affect the ENTER scoring outcome?\",\"answer\":\"Languages other than English (LOTE) receive an upward adjustment of five points in line with state and federal government policies.\"}]","Recipe for success - Year 12 subject choice and the transition from school to university | PDF",1789910267,23]