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The term is cropping up on high school student support and study pages, and researchers say it signals a warning for creative arts jobs and AI-proofed careers alike – but what is “ATARmaxxing”?

Professor Sandra Gattenhof, from the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Creative Arts, said she came across the word while researching how choices in high school affected creative degree enrolments.

A student’s ATAR – used by universities as the key criterion for student selection into tertiary courses – is…

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