Bound reference dilemma

[samsiexD]

So today i just realised that you cant bring in a perforated textbook into the exams...
Life=over, am i spose to like photocopy every single page (its a 200pg spiral book), condense all that info down to a new book or what? Any solutions to fixing this !?

frustration overload :|

[alondouek]

What exactly do you mean by "perforated textbook"? If you mean a bound notebook with perforations, you're fine so long as everything is attached.

At my school, the VCE supervisors checked everyone's books by holding them by the spine and shaking. If nothing fell out, you're good to go!

[samsiexD]

Oh yea with perforations my bad

Are you sureeeee what if my vce supervisors confiscate it coz theyre just plain mean

[alondouek]

Go check with your school's VCE co-ordinator as soon as you can; they'll be at the exam hall on the day. Ask them if what you've got is okay - if they say yes, the supervisors aren't going to confiscate it.

[Alwin]

NOOO, it's fine!
There's a way to solve the problem.

The problem is if OP meant there were perforations on each page

EXAMPLE OF WHAT I MEAN

At my school (not necessarily against VCAA rules, but iirc it is) this is not allowed:


You're right BasicAcid, if the spine is like this:

This is okay + duct tape at my school

or

Then you can duct tape the spine because each page is securely attached to the spine

Go check with your school's VCE co-ordinator as soon as you can; they'll be at the exam hall on the day. Ask them if what you've got is okay - if they say yes, the supervisors aren't going to confiscate it.

PLEASE samsiexD DON'T LEAVE IT THAT LATE!!! I've seen it before, people rock up on exam day with spiral bound reference book or whatnot and the stress of duct-taping it together on the day... =S And imagine if you ask on the day and they say No.. its not allowed =O
Check with your methods teacher + VCE coordinators as soon as possible!!


One final note:
If it does turn out that your reference book is "illegal" because each page is perforated or whatnot, ask your methods teacher / a nice teacher who likes you to do it for you there's a reason to this madness, at my school the printers in the staff room are massive and have like a gazillion functions. One of them iirc is that you can place an open book on it and it will photocopy it out as 1 double sided A4 sheet. It will be much faster than you trying to photocopy each 200 page one by one...
After you've got it out all double sidedly and stuff, you can glue it / bind and duct tape it together

GOOD LUCK


EDIT: spelt gazillion wrong

[pi]

Why do you need the whole textbook? Just photocopy the pages you need, surely you know how to do much of the basic stuff.

[samsiexD]

yea i was gonna do the whole duct tape thing but then i realised i wrote past the perforations part like i wrote all the way to the spiral if that makes sense?

i think ill ask my maths teacher and if he says i cant have it i'll just rewrite the book with formulas and exam style qtns

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP

[BasicAcid]

Wait, so you're saying if there are holes in the pages on the inside of your book, even though you've taped everything together and it all sits together like a normal book, you still can't use it?

Can't you just place a line of duct tape over the holes on the covers to cover the holes?

[alondouek]

Wait, so you're saying if there are holes in the pages on the inside of your book, even though you've taped everything together and it all sits together like a normal book, you still can't use it?

Can't you just place a line of duct tape over the holes on the covers to cover the holes?

I strongly, strongly doubt that you'd have a problem. Even the duct-tape solution sounds pretty excessive - I'd honestly never even heard of this being done before yesterday. I'm 99.9999% sure you'd be fine even with a perforated notebook (I was, and so was almost the entirety of my Methods class).

Go check with your school's VCE co-ordinator as soon as you can; they'll be at the exam hall on the day. Ask them if what you've got is okay - if they say yes, the supervisors aren't going to confiscate it.

PLEASE samsiexD DON'T LEAVE IT THAT LATE!!! I've seen it before, people rock up on exam day with spiral bound reference book or whatnot and the stress of duct-taping it together on the day... =S And imagine if you ask on the day and they say No.. its not allowed =O
Check with your methods teacher + VCE coordinators as soon as possible!!

lol that what I said, "go check with your VCE coordinator as soon as you can". However, they are also going to be at the exam hall on the day, so if a supervisor decides to confiscate, it can be overturned by the coordinator (assuming you've already talked to them).

I would be extremely surprised if your coordinator, or even the supervisor has any issue with the intact perforated book. As long as nothing's loose (which is the actual problem they're looking out for), then you'll be fine!

[BasicAcid]

I strongly, strongly doubt that you'd have a problem. Even the duct-tape solution sounds pretty excessive - I'd honestly never even heard of this being done before yesterday. I'm 99.9999% sure you'd be fine even with a perforated notebook (I was, and so was almost the entirety of my Methods class).

Ah I see, I guess Alwin may be a bit off, I thought it wouldn't be that much of a problem too

And well, the duct tape idea was just my two cents cause I used two separate exercise books for my notes and I just duct taped them together so it looks like one haha

[Alwin]

Ah I see, I guess Alwin may be a bit off, I thought it wouldn't be that much of a problem too

And well, the duct tape idea was just my two cents cause I used two separate exercise books for my notes and I just duct taped them together so it looks like one haha

Nah, at my school lecture pads and perforated pages (not binding ring holes) are just NOT ALLOWED AT ALL

At my school (not necessarily against VCAA rules, but iirc it is) this is not allowed

Teachers do the "shake test" but also if pages can be easily removed (ie perforated) you're not allowed to bring it in full stop.

Maybe its less strict at your school BasicAcid, but the official rules are:

[BasicAcid]

Nah, at my school lecture pads and perforated pages (not binding ring holes) are just NOT ALLOWED AT ALLTeachers do the "shake test" but also if pages can be easily removed (ie perforated) you're not allowed to bring it in full stop.

Maybe its less strict at your school BasicAcid, but the official rules are:
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I just realized that image is directly from the VCAA handbook?

Anyway it doesn't affect me, I was just trying to help

Whatever happens good luck

[Alwin]

Whatever happens good luck

Such a charming guy

don't worry, I'm only trying to help too