Rank and Merit Badge Binders
It is a good idea to keep all materials for merit badges and rank advancement in two 3-ring binders – a binder for "partials" and a binder for "completions" which could also be called an Eagle Binder.
The "partials" binder holds work in progress such as:
• Materials for partial merit badges (for example, the Word/pdf worksheets that are available online for merit badges, documents the scout has written to fulfill merit badge requirements, etc.)
• Blue cards for partial merit badges
The "completions" binder holds all "official records" for completed items such as:
• Blue cards for completed merit badges
• Rank cards once received at Court of Honor
• Merit badge cards once received at Court of Honor
• Scout portion of Service Hour Forms that have been submitted
It is a good idea to separate "partial" material from "completed" material! A Scout will likely carry around his partials binder when working on a merit badge. Keeping the completion items in a separate binder minimizes the chance that a Scout loses his official records of advancement and merit badges which are required to earn the Eagle rank.
Link to BSA Merit Badge Worksheets: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Merit_Badge