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Title: bound book
Post by: sachinmachin on November 01, 2009, 09:45:37 am
what has everyone included in their bound book as essentials for the exam??
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: GerrySly on November 01, 2009, 09:59:35 am
I'm just using Derrick Ha's book with some vector definitions in the back
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Post by: sachinmachin on November 01, 2009, 10:05:28 am
ah..not bad.
havent been to his lectures so guess im missing out...:(
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Post by: TonyHem on November 01, 2009, 03:16:16 pm
2 pages per area of study
1 is a summary - formulas
2nd is examples
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Post by: TrueTears on November 01, 2009, 04:06:52 pm
I'm bringing in Essentials textbook.
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Post by: TonyHem on November 01, 2009, 04:10:18 pm
Not good enough. You should combine the essentials, maths quest and Heinemann together if you want a 50.
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Post by: dejan91 on November 01, 2009, 04:10:34 pm
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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Post by: hyperblade01 on November 01, 2009, 04:14:56 pm
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
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: NE2000 on November 01, 2009, 04:21:21 pm
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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Post by: dejan91 on November 01, 2009, 04:26:51 pm
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?
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: NE2000 on November 01, 2009, 04:27:59 pm
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.
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: dejan91 on November 01, 2009, 04:30:52 pm
Lol and what are spiral bindings? (sorry, don't know my stationary too well :P)
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Post by: GerrySly on November 01, 2009, 04:47:03 pm
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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Post by: sachinmachin on November 01, 2009, 04:56:01 pm
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
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: ohemgee on November 01, 2009, 04:59:20 pm
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 :)
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: magnum on November 01, 2009, 05:04:51 pm
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


Title: Re: bound book
Post by: /0 on November 01, 2009, 05:07:24 pm
Can you put notes on your calculator?
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Post by: dino on November 01, 2009, 05:27:31 pm
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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Post by: qshyrn on November 01, 2009, 05:35:55 pm
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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Post by: dino on November 01, 2009, 05:39:07 pm
But it makes a sound. A tab doesn't.
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: qshyrn on November 01, 2009, 05:43:04 pm
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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Post by: QuantumJG on November 01, 2009, 05:49:02 pm
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.
Title: Re: bound book
Post by: QuantumJG on November 01, 2009, 05:50:49 pm
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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Post by: monokekie on November 01, 2009, 05:51:15 pm
hey i used this for mine would it work?

http://content.etilize.com/Large/1011091189.jpg
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Post by: kurrymuncher on November 01, 2009, 05:56:15 pm
hey i used this for mine would it work?

http://content.etilize.com/Large/1011091189.jpg


yeah thats fine
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Post by: Edmund on November 01, 2009, 06:07:53 pm
Hmm is taping a notebook/exercise book to a textbook considered as one bound reference? :P
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Post by: hyperblade01 on November 01, 2009, 06:48:01 pm
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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Post by: /0 on November 01, 2009, 06:48:58 pm
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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Post by: dejan91 on November 01, 2009, 07:22:51 pm
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.