Summary Books

[caffinatedloz]

Hey guys!
I'll be studying 1/2 spesh and 1/2 methods this year, and I was wondering whether having the same summary book may be a good idea.

Last year, I would take notes during class straight into my workbook and make a concise summary into a notes book before the tests. This meant I made about 5/6 double sided pages of notes for the semester. I was wondering if the same system where I copy out both spesh and methods stuff into the same book could be a good idea so that I always have both sets of notes (which could be especially beneficial for spesh).

My plan is to continue using the same book that already has about 10 used pages with all of the things I learnt in Year 10.

I've seen heaps of guides for making methods/further summary books, but I was wondering if anyone has tried this system and whether they would advise for or against it. Or if you had different summary books for methods and spesh and whether that worked well.

Thanks!

[Sine]

Personally I had separate summary books for both Methods and Specialist. I didn't really think of whether I should combine them because I treated them as completely different subjects since they cover quite distinct areas of mathematics with different types of questions and different traps.

Since you are still doing units 1/2 I don't think it matters too much tbh. It is unlikely and probably not too useful for you to use these summary books for units 3/4. IMO the idea of a summary book is about getting just what you need in the book not a huge book where you could teach yourself the subject from - if you wanted that you could take the textbook in. As you said a 5/6 double sided pages of notes is probably good. 

Also, summary notes are really not as useful as one would think. Generally of those people who do really well, they wouldn't even touch their summary book throughout the exam - however, the process of making it can be a good revision tool to go back to the theory of the subject.

Someone else asked this question quite recently and here is the thread.