Students studying more difficult ATAR subjects in Western Australia will no longer have additional bonuses counted as part of their scores, under new changes announced by education authorities.
From 2026, students studying Maths Methods, Maths Specialist and languages other than English will not receive any bonus to their ATAR score.
The changes will effectively alter the tertiary entrance aggregate used to calculate ATAR scores by taking away the previous automatic 10 per cent bonus that was added.
The utterly chronic normalisation of “hard work” & meritocracy is such a bullshit capitalist construct.