In the United States, exercise books used by writers and students are known as composition books. Typically, they have dimensions of 9 + 3⁄ 4 by 7 + 1⁄ 2 inches (250mm ×190mm) or 8 + 1⁄ 2 by 6 + 7⁄ 8 inches (220mm ×170mm) and 20, 40, 80 or 100 sheets. The traditional size of a school exercise book in Australia is 7 by 9 inches (180mm ×230mm), which may be approximated by B5 (176 × 250mm). Larger A4 (previously foolscap) notebooks are also very commonly used. In some schools, exercise books may be colour-coded depending on the subject. For example, Biology might be green and Algebra blue. Comfortable learning in a book that will last; the writing in their workbooks doesn't have to move around!​ Type of notebook designed for writing schoolwork and study notes Children writing in exercise books A common exercise book

Exercise books with fewer sheets, such as Blue books, are used in many post-secondary schools during assessment tests.

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School exercise books in New Zealand generally conform to standard NZS 8132:1984 (Specification for school stationery). An alphanumeric code is used to describe the exercise book's binding, format, and size. The paper for cursive writing uses pairs of lines 4mm apart, with 8mm between the pairs. They may also have angled lines at 65 degrees to vertical to provide additional guidance. Other sizes and number of sheets are permitted. The preferable sizes are (in mm): 210 x 297 (A4), 203 x 288, 203 x 275, 170 x 203, 148 x 210 (A5), 144 x 203. Exercise books are synonymous with school. They are tough, durable, and built to withstand anything kids can throw at them. But it’s not just mums, dads, and teachers who buy exercise books. They make good jotters and planning books for designers and artists who like to keep all their ideas together, or even accounting books and diaries for small businesses. They come in a range of sizes, from A4 exercise books for bigger projects and subjects to A5 workbooks for handy daily use, to nifty little A6 exercise books perfect for spelling tests and noteworthy record keeping. Each size is perfectly suited to the level of notes and work you need to take - bigger projects or bigger classes means bigger books, and more notetaking and snippets of information means going a little smaller. It’s easy!

Part of the Visual Stress Collection: previous winning product of the Education Resources Awards SEN Resource of the Year. Exercise books may act as a primary record of students' learning efforts. For younger pupils, books are often collected at the end of each lesson for review, scoring, or grading. Loose worksheets may be pasted into the book so that they are bound with other work. Children with Visual Stress often find it as difficult to write on white paper as to read from it. Writing can be untidy and presentation poor, because the words they write are affected in just the same way as the printed words they read. Revision from poor presentation is difficult and discouraging. The right colour workbook can make learning easier and improve grades. An exercise book or composition book is a notebook that is used in schools to copy down schoolwork and notes. A student will usually have a different exercise book for each separate lesson or subject.

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The exercise book format is different for some subjects: for the majority of subjects, the exercise book will contain lined paper with a margin, but for other subjects such as mathematics, the exercise book will contain squared paper to aid in the drawing of graphs, tables or other diagrams. The lines can have gray, blue, green, or purple colour. The vertical margin line must have a red or orange color. Vertical margin is optional for graph-ruled notebooks. A "thin" notebook (Russian: школьная тетрадь, school notebook) with 12, 18, or 24 sheets, having size 170 x 205mm. They are stapled through the fold, which, aided by their thinness, allows to open them completely flat, simplifying writing on the left side. These notebooks are used for daily work in primary school like teaching penmanship and arithmetic, and are often collected for review and grading. These notebooks are called copybooks at English language lessons in Russian schools. [3]

The exercise book was also called version book historically, and is called khata in India, scribbler in Canada, jotter in Scotland, [1] and copy book in Ireland. [ citation needed] The US equivalent is composition book, which traditionally has a distinctive cover pattern.