A look at almost 3000 students over 11 years found no difference in a selective student's likelihood of landing a job or going to university.
Thousands of Australian parents spend huge sums and countless hours preparing their children with tutoring and practice exams to sit the entrance exams for such schools each year.
As expected, the students who attended selective schools scored higher on average in reading and mathematics tests. However, this difference disappeared once differences in the students' socioeconomic background, gender and geographical location were taken into account. By the age of 25, all the outcomes between selective students and their peers were insignificant, except for general life satisfaction which was 0.19 points higher for those who attended a selective school.
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