These are my personal opinions from experience.
Biology:
Nelson is very clear and concise and gives you all the information you need. The diagrams are very good too. NoB has a lot of unnecessary info and Heinemann misses some info and can be difficult to understand at times. In terms of notes, TSFX is good but I personally found it unnecessary since the textbook was sufficient. Biozone is sometimes irrelevant and i personally wouldn't buy it unless your school forces you to. Also I don't think it's necessary to get a biology dictionary. Google is your best friend, and also the glossary of your textbook.
Chemistry:
All the textbooks I've used (heinemann, nelson, jacaranda, chemistry dimensions) are pretty good. I'd say Nelson has the best review questions in terms of relevance to the course. I mainly used Heinemann because it was the set text at my school. I found that it explained concepts well but lacked many worked examples for problems. For notes, the lisachem ones I had lacked detail. TSFX was good and gave lots of relevant questions.
Physics:
Heinemann is far superior to Jacaranda. For outside resources, you need to be a bit more careful with which year you use as the study design has changed a bit and some things have been removed. A+ notes are pretty good, as are their revision material. Creelman has a revision book too which is pretty much the same as checkpoints.
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