Students will be able to see minimum and maximum ATARs for all university course offers from this year and the misleading term ATAR "cut-off" will be phased out, under a new national admissions transparency plan announced by the Turnbull government.

Universities will be required to report on the raw ATARs of students offered places in each course even if extra entry criteria such as bonus points are used, and outline the number of students admitted through various ATAR, non-ATAR, and combined pathways.

The new university admissions plan will provide students with a better understanding on whether they have a chance of getting into a course, the Grattan Institute's Andrew Norton says. Credit:Louie Douvis

The publication of raw ATARs aims to address concerns the "existing commonly reported ATAR threshold figures are open to manipulation and gaming", according to the plan, which will be implemented gradually from this month.

The term ATAR "cut-off", which a spokeswoman for the Universities Admissions Centre said had been misused in the past, will no longer be used from 2019.