UPDATE FROM UAC FOR IB SCHOOLS November 2020

2019 ADMISSIONS

IB STUDENTS AND 2019 ADMISSIONS – Almost 16% of IB students had a rank of 99. 00 and above (compared to 1. 6% of HSC students) – Three Go 8 unis accounted for 83% of 1 st preferences – Most popular fields of study were Society and Culture (includes Law, Psychology and Economics); Health; and Natural and Physical Sciences (includes Maths, Medical Science)

2019 ADMISSIONS – 6. 3% more IB applicants – 1, 274 offers made to IB students (increase of 14. 1%) – 961 (92. 4%) students received at least one offer (increase of 20%) – Average 1. 33 offers per student (decrease of 5. 3%)

2019 ADMISSIONS – 62. 9% of IB students received an offer to their 1 st preference (compared to 57. 3% last year) – 22. 2% received an offer to their second preference (up from 21. 5%) – Compared to HSC: 1 st preference offers were 63. 1% (down from 63. 7%) and 2 nd preference offers were 20. 5% (up from 21. 2%) – Similar patterns for IB and HSC students

2020 ADMISSIONS

2020 ADMISSIONS – Opened April 2019 – November IB students advised to apply from 1 August 2019 Student ID details not yet available § Required for applicants who want to apply for EAS, SRS or ES § – IB students will receive offers in January Round 1 – Institutions will be reminded to ensure that there are places/scholarships for applicants whose results have not been received prior to December Round 2

SCHOOLS RECOMMENDATION SCHEMES (SRS) – Closing date for applications Monday 30 September 2019 – Closing date for school ratings Wednesday 9 October 2019 – November Round 1 first SRS offer round – 2019 admissions 141 IB students applied for SRS § 37 unconditional offers across 33 students § 29 conditional offers across 19 students §

OFFERS BASED ON PREDICTED GRADES – UAC will NOT be processing predicted grades for domestic applicants for 2020 admissions – 2019 admissions; 3 universities made offers: ACU – 6 § University of Canberra – 13 § MQ University – 102 §

2020 CONVERSION SCHEDULE – 2020 combined schedule has been approved by the ACTAC Operations group – Current methodology paper available on UAC website: https: //www. uac. edu. au/future-applicants/admissioncriteria/ib-applicants

IB DIPLOMA SUBJECT MAPPINGS – Grade and subject equivalencies are available on the UAC website: https: //www. uac. edu. au/futureapplicants/admission-criteria/ib-applicants – Mapping for new IB mathematics subjects have been confirmed by the ACTAC Results Equivalence Group (REG)

CONFIRMED MATHEMATICS SUBJECTS MAPPINGS – Mathematics: applications and interpretations SL mapped against NSW HSC General Mathematics Standard 2 – Mathematics: applications and interpretations HL and Mathematics: analysis and approaches SL mapped against NSW HSC Mathematics – Mathematics: analysis and approaches HL mapped against NSW HSC Mathematics Extension 2

NEW SCHEDULE

WHY? - We review all our schedules regularly as better data becomes available - We have been working with IBO for 18 months to obtain finer-grained data about the performance of IB students to inform a new schedule - This is not happening in response to reports in the media - This is a schedule used in other states so agreement has been reached nationally on this change

2017 ATAR/IB COHORT COMPARISON – ATAR 57, 061 students in NSW received an ATAR § 46 of these students received 99. 95 - 0. 08% of the cohort § Median ATAR was 69. 00 § – IB § § § 527 NSW students attempted the IB 13 of these received 99. 95 - 2. 47% of the cohort. Controlling for cohort size, this is roughly 30 times more than the ATAR cohort The median IB score was 36, which mapped to a rank of 94. 60. The IB score of 24 mapped to a rank of 69. 05, which is roughly the same as the middle student in the ATAR cohort.

MORE GRADATIONS TO BE ADDED – The current schedule has limited mapping points because of the coarseness of reported DP grades (1 – 7) – ACTAC have been working with the IB for the last 18 months to obtain finer-grained data to improve the schedule and make it fairer for all students. – The result is that we can better differentiate between DP students on the same overall DP score. – Currently each IB grade in a particular subject covers a range of marks. For example, in 2018, students with a mark of 62 to 74 in Biology SL all received a grade of 6. For the new score we will take into account the mark underlying the grade. In doing so, students with higher underlying marks may receive a better rank than students who are on the same grade but have a lower mark. – Overall DP score will not change but extra gradations between each DP scores will be introduced.

IMPLEMENTATION – The IB will advise IB result to students including percentage marks for each subject – IB DP score – ACTAC will calculate and advise the new finer-grained score; the International Baccalaureate Admission Score (IBAS) – This score will be used to derive the admissions rank as per the new schedule – This rank will be the basis of the UAC Selection Rank (which includes adjustments)

IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE – Students already in Years 11 and 12 will not be affected – First cohort to be affected are students in Year 10 in 2020 – The new schedule is to be introduced for 2023 admissions

CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHANGE – 60% of students will retain the same rank – 25% of students ranks will go up – 15% of students ranks will go down – The new schedule shouldn’t have a significant impact on DP students competitiveness – The new schedule shouldn’t impact Year 10 subject choice or the choice of the DP over a state qualification – The IB Diploma is held in high regard in terms of university admissions and the new schedule is not intended to undermine the DP in any way

EXAMPLES – In 2018, 13 NSW students obtained an IB score of 45 3 would retain 99. 95 § 10 would receive 99. 90 § – In 2017, 28 NSW students obtained an IB score of 35 18 would retain 93. 30 § 3 would receive 93. 00 § 7 would receive 93. 60 §

FINE-GRAINED SCHEDULE New score Proposed rank Current rank 45. 50 45. 00 44. 50 44. 00 43. 50 43. 00 42. 75 42. 50 42. 25 42. 00 41. 75 41. 50 41. 25 41. 00 40. 75 40. 50 40. 25 40. 00 39. 75 99. 90 99. 85 99. 80 99. 75 99. 70 99. 55 99. 40 99. 25 99. 10 98. 95 98. 80 98. 65 98. 55 98. 40 98. 25 98. 05 97. 90 97. 70 99. 95 99. 85 99. 70 99. 40 98. 80 98. 25 39. 00 38. 75 38. 50 38. 25 38. 00 37. 75 37. 50 37. 25 37. 00 36. 75 36. 50 36. 25 36. 00 35. 75 35. 50 35. 25 35. 00 34. 75 34. 50 97. 10 96. 90 96. 70 96. 45 96. 25 96. 00 95. 75 95. 45 95. 15 94. 80 94. 50 94. 20 93. 90 93. 60 93. 30 93. 00 92. 70 92. 40 92. 10 96. 70 95. 75 94. 50 93. 30 92. 10 33. 75 33. 50 33. 25 33. 00 32. 75 32. 50 32. 25 32. 00 31. 75 31. 50 31. 25 31. 00 30. 75 30. 50 30. 25 30. 00 29. 75 29. 50 29. 25 91. 00 90. 65 90. 25 89. 80 89. 40 88. 95 88. 50 88. 05 87. 55 87. 10 86. 45 85. 75 85. 10 84. 40 83. 80 83. 15 82. 55 81. 90 81. 40 90. 65 88. 95 87. 10 84. 40 81. 90 28. 50 28. 25 28. 00 27. 75 27. 50 27. 25 27. 00 26. 75 26. 50 26. 25 26. 00 25. 75 25. 50 25. 25 25. 00 24. 75 24. 50 24. 25 24. 00 79. 90 79. 35 78. 80 78. 20 77. 65 77. 05 76. 40 75. 80 75. 15 74. 40 73. 65 72. 85 72. 10 71. 25 70. 40 69. 55 68. 70 67. 85 67. 00 79. 90 77. 65 75. 15 72. 10 68. 70 39. 50 39. 25 97. 50 97. 30 97. 50 34. 25 34. 00 91. 75 91. 40 29. 00 28. 75 80. 90 80. 40

PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCE PER RANK Diploma score Decrease Same Increase 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 Total 75% 70% 0% 37% 22% 21% 19% 16% 20% 15% 12% 10% 10% 11% 13% 9% 6% 10% 9% 16% 17% 25% 30% 77% 58% 71% 64% 58% 54% 60% 59% 58% 57% 54% 52% 53% 55% 52% 48% 55% 40% 57% 0% 0% 23% 5% 7% 15% 23% 30% 25% 29% 31% 30% 33% 36% 37% 34% 36% 42% 36% 44% 26%

COMMUNICATIONS PLAN – Starting with schools now – Will develop collateral for schools, students and parents and start communications in June – Information will be available to the media and public on our website in August – 2022 Year 12 s are the first cohort affected

THANK YOU Kim. Paino@uac. edu. au Nerida. Bewick@uac. edu. au