References to bring into the exam?

[Will T]

Am I the only one who's too lazy to make proper notes and has just reverted to taking the textbook into the exam? Especially if anyone does maths, what references do you guys plan on bringing in?

[oppalovesme]

I'm bringing in my textbook to the Further exams, but my notebook to the Specialist exams
I've annotated certain pages in my Further textbook to ensure that it is of most use to me, and I don't see the point in me bringing in the notebook I made for Further - as all the notes in it were more or less copied directly from my textbook anyway
I think bringing in your textbook is fine, as long as you are familiar with it and can use it efficiently - there's no point wasting time in the exam scanning through the whole book looking for something which may not even be in there!

[Stick]

For Further, you can probably get away with it because the content size is small and the only thing you'll probably need to look at is your bell curve with the standard deviation percentages on it.

After the exams are done, I intend to write up a guide on how to construct a good bound reference because I see a lot of people on this forum go about it in the wrong way. I learnt how to do this properly in Year 10 while I was doing Methods 1&2. My teacher had told the class to start the bound reference from class 1 but no one listened to him and I really regretted taking my textbook into the exams since I like to express concepts in words rather than formulae (for example, I learnt better using written statements explaining what to do when using the chain, product and quotient rules, rather than using the normal algebraic expressions provided by the textbook). From day 1 of Further 3/4, I kept a bound reference and I'd spend around 15 minutes each night adding the notes about the new concept we had learnt provided with a specific example. Needless to say, it's a great detailed summary book which a lot of my friends are envious of, and I haven't wasted any of the revision period leading up to the exam compiling any notes. Some might say it's inappropriate to make so many notes because you'll spend too much time flicking through them during the exam, but constructing the book was a great way for me to consolidate my knowledge after each lesson and I really know my book quite well.

Good luck with your revision.

[pi]

Relevant, source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=200502846727056&set=pb.200299973414010.-2207520000.1350715105&type=1&theater

[Stick]

^ Yes, that explains why only 3% of students managed to correctly answer Exam 2 Graphs and Relations Q2 last year (in other words, do not rely on prior knowledge for Graphs and Relations - there is a little bit of new content you need to learn as well ).

[jasoN-]

brought textbook, got 50, too ez bro