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Since last year, they all are, with the exception of a few private colleges.

There are always exceptional cases like this one where the system won't give the best result. It still doesn't change the fact that for people who do average/moderately well in humanities, the scaling system is quite fair.

ENTER is directly equivalent to ATAR - will be renamed ATAR next year actually. As for OP/IB, I think the different TACs decide on a conversion rate every year.

No, they use a conversion table system to change IB scores into 'equivalent' selection ranks, like what they do with Queensland's OPs.

Re: Top 100 Schools - Daily Telegraph The Herald omitted St Andrews Christian School which sat 3 exams and got 1 band 6, where as the Tele put it at number 25 or something like that.

Yes.

How is it a 'scam' that private schools set different trial exams? The moderation process means that all that would affect is the relative assessment mark between different students at the same school. And there's no real benefit in having an easy trial paper, because when it comes to the HSC...

Yes, I stand corrected - this is what I meant, they can't be directly related to people doing the HSC in that year.

I've been told by my school that Board regulations stop them from telling us the total mark, but we're allowed to know our rank and all task marks, obviously. They think it's a stupid rule since we can just work it out ourselves anyway, but I guess it's just to stop misunderstandings like this...

Yes, I think I need to write up a standardised explanation for that and link to it in my sig :p

No, it's still < 30.00 - The ATAR advice notice - UAC undergraduate website

I think that's probably the only way to get a 95+ ATAR without getting a band 6/E4...

You're welcome :) Good question you asked - I don't think most people actually bother to research that!

Also handy for avoiding having 45% tax taken out of your pay when you work...

There's a guy at my school who got no band 6s or E4s, and managed 96.60.