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loose leaf or exercise book
« on: November 23, 2012, 04:16:55 am »
Can I pls get some advices as to whether using loose leaf or exercise book for methods summaries. If I use loose leaf, is it okay that I go to officerwork to bind them later in the year?

As for the summary itself, how would I make a good one?
Topic by topic? Or separating notes, questions, and CAS into three different sections.

Any advices will be appreciated :D
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Re: loose leaf or exercise book
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2012, 10:21:46 am »
I started using loose leaf, but then it became difficult because I was always paranoid I would loose it all. In the end, I ended up using exercise books with made it so much easier. Eg: 1 exercise book (or half) for the first 6 chapters of the book-Functions, Graphs...etc. 1 exercise book for the next 3 chapters (along with exam and hard questions stuck in)-Differentiation, Antidiff, worded problems, rates of change, circular functions. Then, the last exercise book was dedicated to probability (at the back I had the harder questions). This all worked for me. And because it was structured in this way, when I used it in my exam, i knew where everything was.
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Re: loose leaf or exercise book
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2012, 03:17:17 pm »
I used a notebook.

The way I did my summaries:
1. listened to teacher in class and copied his notes word-for-word into an exercise book
2. came home, look at the notes for the day, and worked out what I was going to write in the notebook I would take into the exam (e.g. key concepts, things I didn't know before, good examples)
3. worked on my notebook from the start of the year, so that I could arrange things topic by topic (e.g. function, then antidiff etc...) 
4. the back of my notebook was devoted solely to formulae (e.g volume of a cylinder) - bit like a toolbox....make sure you review the formulae regularly, because in my opinion, just knowing your formulae inside out is what gives you confidence - plus if you want something like a trig rule in an application question, you have it written down pat within 1 second instead of 5 minutes - really beneficial haha
5. kept a separate book for the questions I'd asked my teacher & other stuff I needed help with
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Re: loose leaf or exercise book
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2012, 06:05:32 pm »
Alright, thanks for the awesome response :)
If I want to use another kind of loose leaf papers that have two punched holes, can I still bind them properly so it won't fall off?
Do you think officework is the best place to bind them?
Also do you think it is beneficial to copy all the examples(easy to hard) into the summary book?
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Re: loose leaf or exercise book
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2012, 06:07:09 pm »
You could get perforated exercise books so that you can easily and cleanly tear pages.
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Re: loose leaf or exercise book
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2012, 06:09:04 pm »
I used loose leaf, which I got binded at officeworks at the end of the year.
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Re: loose leaf or exercise book
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2012, 06:12:30 pm »
Can I pls get some advices as to whether using loose leaf or exercise book for methods summaries. If I use loose leaf, is it okay that I go to officerwork to bind them later in the year?

As for the summary itself, how would I make a good one?
Topic by topic? Or separating notes, questions, and CAS into three different sections.

Any advices will be appreciated :D

1) Doesn't matter if you use loose leaf or exercise books, each will have its merits and benefits, I would honestly suggest just using loose leaf because exercise books can be a pain sometimes. I just used loose leaf and chucked it out when I was done.

2) I don't think making summaries is an effective way of learning maths, doing questions...etc. is much more efficient and effective.