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VCE Stuff => VCE Mathematics => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Specialist Mathematics => Topic started by: sachinmachin on November 01, 2009, 09:45:37 am
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what has everyone included in their bound book as essentials for the exam??
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I'm just using Derrick Ha's book with some vector definitions in the back
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ah..not bad.
havent been to his lectures so guess im missing out...:(
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2 pages per area of study
1 is a summary - formulas
2nd is examples
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I'm bringing in Essentials textbook.
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Not good enough. You should combine the essentials, maths quest and Heinemann together if you want a 50.
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Bound reference I made. Approx 14 page double sided. Just a summary of the course and things I found difficult/tips I have discovered.
I might add that it's handwritten.
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Class notes book with a common errors page and then the rest is just most of the MCs i've gotten wrong and some of the extended I got wrong - didn't include the ones due to stupid errors like
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If i was to staple multiple books together, would that be considered bound? this sounds like a silly question but I'm year 11 and I want to know
No
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How do you staple text books anyway??
Oh, and what constitutes a "bound reference"? Like do the pages have to be stapled, or in a display folder or what?
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Spiral binding seems to be the safest way to go. Display folders are also a no I think. The VCAA website has guidelines and essentially the aim is to make the pages in your book almost impossible to be detached.
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Lol and what are spiral bindings? (sorry, don't know my stationary too well :P)
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Lol and what are spiral bindings? (sorry, don't know my stationary too well :P)
(http://www.ferranteassoc.com/i/spiral_bind.jpg)
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Lol and what are spiral bindings? (sorry, don't know my stationary too well :P)
(http://www.ferranteassoc.com/i/spiral_bind.jpg)
lol...nice gerrysly
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you can stick books together like joining them by the cover with heaps of sticky tape and then get a mass peice of sticky tape to cover the spine so its just one spine - i did that for methods last year :)
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Here are all the specifications of whats approved for the bound refence if anyones not sure:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/correspondence/memorandums/2007/28.html
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Can you put notes on your calculator?
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Yep, allowed anything on your calc, it doesn't get wiped - Whole point of BB is to minimise the need to cheat and all the rest.
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ive always wondered why the book needs to be securely bound with no tabs etc etc... paper is still easy to rip out of a bound book
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But it makes a sound. A tab doesn't.
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But it makes a sound. A tab doesn't.
icould rip a page(slowly) without those old supervisors even hearing anything
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last year with my bound reference book I basically just used a 192 page excercise book (I still have mine).
Don't spend too long packing it with stuff as I found I used maybe 1% of the book in the exam (well more than 2 pages but I'm not meaning 1% literally). Use what ever you need. The text books are good but you only need about 10% of the book. Skeleton lecture note booklets are best (In uni instead of being a scribe you have a skeleton set of lecture notes which you can highlight important parts in and add to). I really should have gone to one of those lectures to get the booklet.
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But it makes a sound. A tab doesn't.
icould rip a page(slowly) without those old supervisors even hearing anything
They kind of have eyes if you didn't realise them looking over everyone sitting the first specialist maths exam.
You guys have your second exam tomorrow don't you? If you do good luck.
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hey i used this for mine would it work?
http://content.etilize.com/Large/1011091189.jpg
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hey i used this for mine would it work?
http://content.etilize.com/Large/1011091189.jpg
yeah thats fine
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Hmm is taping a notebook/exercise book to a textbook considered as one bound reference? :P
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Hmm is taping a notebook/exercise book to a textbook considered as one bound reference? :P
I was considering that at one stage actually lol
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I don't think you're allowed to tape books together. You have to bind them more strongly for instance stapling them together.
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Err well mine's on plain white paper... how the heck am I going to bind that...staple it together?
Dw answered my own question: "Students are allowed to firmly attach (e.g. by glue, adhesive tape or staples) additional material to pages in the bound reference.