As the title says
So this is not allowed?
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You're fine! That was exactly the sort of book I had my reference notes in. So long as nothing falls out when they shake it, you'll be alright.
However, some VCE coordinators might be a little stricter - best to check with the one at your school :)
(Worst case scenario, you take your book down to officeworks and ask them to photocopy and bind it for you)
So its the VCE coordinator that approves the bound reference and not the exam supervisor?
That's how it went at my exam. My VCE coordinator checked everyone's books one by one; when yours was checked then you we're let into the exam hall. The VCAA supervisors didn't look at them.
Considering you could probably ask a parent/friend to get it bound for you, I would just do that rather than worry that it might get taken off me.
I might just do this. I'll take it to officeworks to get it bound without the perforations. Even though it I'll put holes through my handwriting :-\ >:(
Better to be safe i guess
Ask them if they can move the print margin to the right so your writing isn't impacted! I'm sure they can do it
Problem with printing it again is that i want the book in colour and that will cost something like $380 dollars...
Maybe you can rip the pages out and stickytape it all together again?
But still, you can potentially avoid all this and check if your notes are okay with the VCE coordinator. If they're fine with it, the supervisors cannot confiscate them.
Is glue binding allowed in the exams?Yeah, I had stuff glued in mine, photocopies etc. If you glued every page on non-perf. exercise book, that should suffice.
I initially set up my methods and further bound reference in a book like yours.
I just took out the pages, stapled them together down the side as close to the edge as possible (to not hit the writing, it gets pretty close after removing the edge).
After that I just sticky taped straight down the edge. That's something you could look into if you're worried.
Only thing is the whole bound reference is like 1 cm shorter than A4 on the width =p (it looks odd if you add in standard A4 sheets into it)
Just to satisfy my curiosity, do you mind sourcing this?
Thank you
Carefully tear out each page and have them rebound into a book at officeworks. Officeworks will bind any loose paper for you together if you pay them enough. I don't know if this paper is kind of hardy enough to survive binding though, that kind of paper is pretty thin. Alternative, they can drill it/holepunch all of them at once and tie it together.
I dont know if its worth risking it, even if theres a 5% chance you get caught, you could be left without it for the exam. If it's going to cost $300 or whatever, i think the risk is fine but if its going to cost $10 bucks and some time, i'd say take that option.
I'm going to say just bring it in - it looks fine to me. But double-check with the relevant people at your school.
To be honest, I think that wasting too much time on your bound book (unless its for Further) is detrimental. You'd usually be way better off doing practice exams than constructing notes.
Sticky-tape over each perforation?
This is what I recommend. For methods last year somebody had perforated pages, and they were told to tape over the perforations and then they could take it in.
Safest option would be to talk to the coordinators at your school though.
Anyways, I don't see how supervisors could come up with an excuse to take the book off me if I did this.
Is that a legit technique? If thats the case I'll just do this. Anyways, I don't see how supervisors could come up with an excuse to take the book off me if I did this.