Your setup.

[Drunk]

any ideas for Biology?

[Greatness]

any ideas for Biology?

I had a notebook and display folder for handouts. You could use a folder with plastic pockets and loose leafs if you wanted to.

[Readinya]

My brother in Uni uses these Keji A4 Carry files: http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Office-Supplies/Document-Filing-Storage-and-Presentation/Document-Presentation/Paper-Filing/SEOFA03

They fit up one Spirax 240 pgs, some loose paper and a few pens. Quick and easy to grab out of your locker, small enough to fit into your bag, and large enough to quickly cram everything in at the end of class.

[MrT011]

any ideas for Biology?

I have a folder, containing, my own written notes, handouts and practice exam questions etc in (separate plastic pockets), all divided into two areas of study by a divider.
also two exercise books within the folder, which can both be removed easily ( one for class theory notes and the other for questions set by teacher)

hope that helped

[Tobias Funke]

Binders never worked out for me, always get some sort of defect, I'll just get like a few exercise books per subject, fit with display folders

Spirax are damn annoying for me because i'm left handed

[Drunk]

My brother in Uni uses these Keji A4 Carry files: http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Office-Supplies/Document-Filing-Storage-and-Presentation/Document-Presentation/Paper-Filing/SEOFA03

They fit up one Spirax 240 pgs, some loose paper and a few pens. Quick and easy to grab out of your locker, small enough to fit into your bag, and large enough to quickly cram everything in at the end of class.

I've always used these too! But I went to Officeworks today, and they don't have them in stock anymore! And when I checked on the website, they only have 3 in stock or something.

MY LIFE IS OVERRR

[Stroodle]

I used one of those accordion type cases for all the handouts. It was awesome.

[Kennybhoy]

I had a pencil case which contained:
4 blue pens (reduced to 0 after 3 weeks, stole a pen off a friend)
4 red pens (I forgot I even had them, never used them and lost them)
2 calculators
Occassionally you'll find someone else's eraser in there.
A pacer

128-page book for physics (never got to the halfway mark over the year)
128-page book for chemistry (LOL CHEM)
3 128-page books for English for each area of study (could've returned them to officeworks for a full refund)
4 128-page books for Spesh (yeah, I did a bit of work in that)
128-page book for Methods (...)

I never bothered with plastic pockets or anything. I stashed handouts in the back of the locker. At the end-of-year locker clean up I found my school report from semester 1. Usually I could tell the difference between my 128-page books by how wrecked they looked.

[Romperait]

I never bothered with plastic pockets or anything. I stashed handouts in the back of the locker. At the end-of-year locker clean up I found my school report from semester 1. Usually I could tell the difference between my 128-page books by how wrecked they looked.

Pretty much my system last year. =)

[Darren]

Binders never worked out for me, always get some sort of defect, I'll just get like a few exercise books per subject, fit with display folders

Spirax are damn annoying for me because i'm left handed

OMFG YES! I swear over these years my hand has developed some permanant indent which never goes away.. scars and all from pressing on those bloody rings :|
But i still love spirax aha

[adelaide.emily10]

I have an arch lever file for each subject which will be almost like an archive that stores important notes, handouts, exam questions etc. these will stay at home.

eng - a binder folder that has subject dividers for each section of work, after each area of study i will take the folder home and move the stuff into the big folders

physics - a lecture pad where the pages come out really easily, these will be transfered to the larger folders after my topic tests

methods - a folder similar to english that will be divided into topics (not chapters) that are outlined in the study design, i plan to bind the notes and handouts at the end of the year before the exam. heaps of exercise books for textbook questions and checkpoints questions

chem - an exercise book for chapter questions and a display folder that will hold all the current notes (our teacher writes notes for us)

IT - a notebook which will contain both class notes and textbook exercises

for chem, physics and IT i have bought notebooks to write my own aummary notes in accordance with the study design which will probs be used for revision. and being the perfectionist i am, everything is colour co-ordinated

[liuetenant]

Binders never worked out for me, always get some sort of defect, I'll just get like a few exercise books per subject, fit with display folders

SAME! past years ive never used anything fancy, just one exercise book for each subject and thats it...the occasion extra one if i ran out, of coruse.....
BUT this year, i wanna try something different! got the money and who doesn't love stationery? <3

english: those 250pg marbig books with 3 divided sections (pretty black)

chem: a bigggggg exercise book with 5 dividied sections, one for each area of study + exam revision
         a drab old book for chem questiobs, random hw and working out
         a "trouble-shooting" folder where i throw in all hand outs and questions and post-it notes that have things i must relearn, or learn or simply wrap my head around


bio: just a thick book for notes
      an exercise book for questions etc
      folder to store all notes

jap: meh, dnt give about it. we dnt even need books for it anyway

methods: a BINDER! :O figured id try one of those asses anyway, got divided tabs and im going to use loose leaf to anwer questions etc. get to take em out, revise them etc. should be ok, i hope
             exercise book for notes etc

NOTE: all of the exercise books are spiral bound! and u noe they are pretty costly but im sick of those normal tighlty bound exercise books because they never seem to stay flat the spiral-bound ones are a godsend

[luken93]

Maybe we should start a lefty's thread to discuss what works best haha

[ben_ess12]

Maybe we should start a lefty's thread to discuss what works best haha

+1

[funkyducky]

Maybe we should start a lefty's thread to discuss what works best haha

Yeah! I second this motion but I do use spiral-bound books, never had a problem with them.

My setup:

Spesh
240 pg exercise book, display folder for notes. I will need to pick up another thin exercise book eventually for my bound reference.

Chem
200pg exercise book, display folder for notes.

English
Display folder. We never write anything in English, so I might carry around a notepad or looseleaf or something if I need to.

French
200pg exercise book and display folder

Uni Maths
200pg exercise book and display folder