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Having completed the fifth file slot in Box 1 of the accordion filing system [2], let’s proceed to the sixth file opening under the second category of Personal documents [3]. (Are you following my organizational system [4]? To help those of you who are visual learners, like me, a pictorial overview of my accordion file will be posted next week.)
With my husband’s personal documents stored in the fifth slot, I have placed these personal documents of mine in the sixth gap of the accordion file:
- LSAT Score. Before we had children, I toyed with the idea of going to law school. Though that endeavor did not materialize, I took the test, and I keep those documents in this file.
- Teaching Certificate. Though it is expired and states my maiden name, I keep my professional teaching certificate from the South Carolina Board of Education with my personal documents. Unlike my LSAT score, I actually needed my certificate in 1997, when I taught high school speech, drama, and 10th grade English in the public school system.
- Transcripts. Copies or student-issued, unofficial originals of my 5 transcripts are kept in this file.
- Partial records for 9th -11th grades from one school.
- Complete high school record from school from which I graduated.
- Community college records for 3 classes took during summer sessions.
- Undergraduate records.
- Graduate transcript.
This file has been purged of SAT and ACT scores (college entrance exams), EEE and Praxis II scores (teaching certificate tests), and my GRE score (graduate school entrance exam). Since I have already benefited from these tests and could request the information from the official boards, I have chosen to rid them from my file. If you have these documents and will be using them in the future, then please keep them. For me, I have exhausted the uses for these scores, so I choose not to have them clutter up my file. However, I have kept the LSAT scores since I may still profit from them.
If I obtain other certifications, degrees, scores, or other personal documents pertaining only to me, I will add those documents to this sixth file slot. At present, this file is complete. Next week, instead of continuing with the seventh file slot, I will show you my file box. The visual explanation may be more valuable than my written description. In the meantime, happy organizing!