To be a bit more precise:
       
       -  A note page is optional; if you don’t want one,
       you don’t have to have one.
    
    
    
    
-  The note page should have an area no greater than 93.5 in2.  A
    letter-size piece of paper has area 93.5 in2 (=  in ×  in).
      
      -  Legal-size ( in ×  in = 119 in2 > 93.5 in2) or A4
      ( in ×  in = 97.1 in2 > 93.5 in2) paper are too big to be note
      pages.
      
 
-  Only one note page, even if the note page is smaller than letter
      size.  For example, if you use a 3-by-5 index card as a note page, you
      can only have one card even though 93.5 in2/15 in2 = 6.2 cards would fit
      within a letter-size piece of paper.
      
-  Hand-written notes, no electro-mechanical printing.  You
      can use any language you’re comfortable with.
      
-  Notes can be written on both sides of the paper.
      
-  Notes can’t be shared during the test.
      
-  Optional: notes can be turned-in with with the test, and
      are returned with the test.  The presence or absence of notes
      have no influence on test grading.
      
 For example: a good note page
   looks like this (except for it being about astronomy); a bad note
   page
   looks like this (it’s not hand written).  
    Credits: Good note page by
   J. Bateman; bad note page by
   R. Fang.  
 
   
This page last modified on 2006 January 24.