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Has there been any success stories where a person has gotten an estimated ATAR from their school, studied really hard for the external exams and then increased their ATAR by a fair bit? For example, low 90's to mid-high 90's? Or even up from a 90 to a 93? Do you think it is possible?
 

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Heard that someone from my school had an estimated ATAR of about 92 and ended up with 96..
 

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Happens all the time. Within reason, yes.

If it's going from an estimated 75 to 90, then probably not.

Keep in mind that an ATAR estimate is merely a ballpark figure. Your ATAR is largely determined by unforeseeable factors such as cohort performance on the day of the exam.
 

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Has there been any success stories where a person has gotten an estimated ATAR from their school, studied really hard for the external exams and then increased their ATAR by a fair bit? For example, low 90's to mid-high 90's? Or even up from a 90 to a 93? Do you think it is possible?
Yes.

Especially when my year advisor was terrible at estimates-awkward moment in yr 11 when she said I shouldn't be complacent about getting an 88 cause it would need work ethic (awkward moment when I was dux the next year).
 

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