Bound reference?

[pi]

From the other thread, let's see what we did

For simplicity, say this was for Maths Methods CAS.

[Mr. Study]

I am in the process of making my own bound notes. (Hence why I cant really choose any of the options as I haven't even done the exam )

TBH, I have printed what ever pages I needed for SACS but I NEVER need to refer to them, during SACS. (I should mention that we are allowed to bring them into SACs as pages. My teachers understand that the 'production' of bound notes is a year long thing.)

For me, It's about making the notes and besides, I feel a little more 'complete' bringing all that we are allowed into the exam.

[Jenny_2108]

Who can vote? Only past VCE students?

[pi]

Who can vote? Only past VCE students?

Well, they are the only ones who can answer "and used it" properly, but if you've done trials I guess that's fine too.


Personally for methods: made one myself, didn't use it.

[WhoTookMyUsername]

I'm unable to just "view results" so i'll just put down what i'm expecting to do at this stage


I'm extremely surprised how many people made there own.

Let's say it takes around 20 hours all up to make a bound ref,
that's almost 20 extra prac exams you could fit in! Surely spamming more prac exams is better?

[Kanon]

Wait, wahhh?
What do you guys do in your maths classes?  In ours every period we get is us writing notes for the bound reference.

[Stick]

If you make it from the start of the year, you're essentially just devoting a maximum of 30 minutes each night and will have it done before you start trials, so that's not really an issue.

[tony3272]

Wait, wahhh?
What do you guys do in your maths classes?  In ours every period we get is us writing notes for the bound reference.

Our teacher would generally go through each topic we need to and we'd write notes (not necessarily for the bound reference) and then we would just do examples / textbook questions.

[WhoTookMyUsername]

If you make it from the start of the year, you're essentially just devoting a maximum of 30 minutes each night and will have it done before you start trials, so that's not really an issue.

LOL
when you have 2 maths subjects and 3 other subjects you can't spend 1 hour a night writing a bound ref

[Starlight]

You could use free sessions to write it

[Somye]

You could use free sessions to write it

[Starlight]

Saves a lot of time having to study in the night if you did

[charmanderp]

I'd rather use my free periods to socialise and relax so that I'm less inclined to do so during actual classes or when I go home. Not that it ever works like that.

[Starlight]

I'd rather use my free periods to socialise and relax so that I'm less inclined to do so during actual classes or when I go home. Not that it ever works like that.

I just used lunchtimes for that. IDK everyone's different though, I just simply can't stay up late in the night doing work, just doesn't work for me.

[b^3]

I'm unable to just "view results" so i'll just put down what i'm expecting to do at this stage


I'm extremely surprised how many people made there own.

Let's say it takes around 20 hours all up to make a bound ref,
that's almost 20 extra prac exams you could fit in! Surely spamming more prac exams is better?

If you make it as you go along, then you aren't really losing that time, as you are learning as you make the bound reference, and at that point in time, you aren't ready to be doing trial exams. Also remember its not how many practice exams you do, its what you learn from them. After each exam I would go back over what I got wrong, and see where I went wrong, if it wasn't a stupid mistake, as in if it was something that I genuinely didn't approach in the right way, I would make a note of it. If I did it again then I added it to my bound reference so that at the end I had a small list of what I used to go wrong with, and the mistakes that I seemed to make more than once. Then in the exam I used that as a kinda of checklist to make sure I didn't make the same mistake in the actual exam, ended up picking up one or two things and correcting them.

If you make it from the start of the year, you're essentially just devoting a maximum of 30 minutes each night and will have it done before you start trials, so that's not really an issue.

When you have 4 or 5 subjects, then thats probably a little bit too much time for the bound reference, but then different things work for different people if you have the time (most likely won't have that much in yr 12).

By the end of the year I aimed to be at the point where I didn't need the bound reference, as someone has said before you need to do exam 1 without it anyway. (Also had my calc guide pasted in the back in case I forgot how to use the calc).

So basically what I'm saying is the reason that I made my own bound reference is because it was helping me learn (as I basically went ahead and learnt from the textbook for all three maths). Even though I pretty much didn't use it in the exam it wasn't a waste of time for me.