Out of your subjects I've chosen Geography and a notebook is mandatory with my current teacher and I couldn't sing the praises for the use of notebooks in geography. At GCSE level, one of the other classes were allowed to use file paper and folders and even the most organised girl had a pig sty of a folder at the end of the year - the notebook is more solid and I know that the case studies for the NI spec can span up to six back and front sides of an a4 sheet so if you get them mixed up or don't correctly title and date loose file sheets then you will come into difficulty come exams.
From experience of my friends for the stem subjects, they mainly used file paper so they could slot the pages in beside booklets of work and notes but there was the odd girl who would have a small a5 notebook to copy down notes in math and they would just slip it into one of the poly-pocket/folder hybrids and they swore by that method instead of flicking through their folder to find out how to use a particular equation.