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Eilidh Sproul-Mellis is the education reporter at The Daily Telegraph, covering all stages from early learning and child development to tertiary education and young people in the workforce. She holds a special interest in cyber issues and was previously a digital producer at the masthead.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH - 21.12.24Law student at UNSW Daniel Tang pictured today on campus. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Gateway to dreams: How low-ATAR students are acing law, medicine

University students enrolled in the most challenging degrees with reduced ATARs are scoring marks only a few points below the rest of the intake, new figures reveal. See the results.

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Revealed: All uni cut-off scores for study in 2025

The full list of university degrees with 99.95 ATAR cut-offs has been revealed, and some of them may surprise you. Find out what the cut-off for the course you want to study is.

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See how the three school sectors stacked up against one another - and within.

Public vs. private: Who won the battle of the brains in 2024 HSC

See how the independent, Catholic and private schools stack up against each other – and themselves.

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The Daily Telegraph 19.12.2024 Gurjor Gill, (white shirt), Harjot Gill, (grey shirt), Kathleen Dela Cruz, (red shirt) and Lachlan Boyd (blue shorts). HSC year 12 students pictured at The Ponds High School. Picture: Rohan Kelly

‘Hard work paid off’: NSW’s best non-selective schools revealed

One Western Sydney public school has the biggest population in the state and has no academically selective intake — but it beat one of NSW’s richest private schools. Read it’s story.

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Many Sydney and NSW universities now have alternative pathways for those who don't quite get the ATAR they wanted.

Low ATAR? No worries: How to get into your favourite uni

While some Year 12s woke up to find they had ATARs over 90, for those feeling disappointed the Vice-Chancellors of NSW’s top universities are urging students to consider a road that may be ‘a little different’. Here’s your guide.

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Daily Telegraph. 16, December, 2024.Pymble Ladies College,Hwayoung Cho, Visual ArtsAbigail Barfield, aboriginal studiesCaiyi Wang, Chinese ContinuesMulan Xu, Classical Greek Continuers,at the HSC First in Course ceremony, at UNSW, today.Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Girls v boys: Who came out on top in HSC

Nearly 42,000 “distinguished achiever” titles were awarded to the class of 2024 with the majority awarded to female students – here’s what the numbers tell us.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Daily TelegraphPhotos - Wednesday, 18 December 2024:Jiya Barot, 18, ATAR: 99.70, Satvik Warrier, 17 ATAR:99.65, Cassidy Lauguico, 18, ATAR: 97.45 and Dhruvil Patel , 17, ATAR: 96 pose for a photo at Penrith Selective High School. Inside the western sydney schools which dominated the HSC this year. Penrith High smashed it, scoring ahead of Kings, PLC, Scots, Ravenswood, Cranbrook. Its one of the many western schools which jumped up including Cambridge Park which jumped 100 places. Picture: Daily Telegraph/ Monique Harmer

The elite schools this Penrith school beat in the HSC

Western Sydney’s students have leapt into the stratosphere with this year’s HSC — as analysis of the top-ranked schools reveals more are based outside the Northern Beaches, eastern suburbs and south Sydney than in 2023.

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