Acronyms and Mnemonics

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Acronyms and Mnemonics

• Successful Study Secrets
• Desire Truter and Fay Trollip

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Acronyms

• Be efficient - work SMART
• S - specific
• M - measurable
• A - achievable
• R - realistic
• T - time-efficient

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Acronyms

• Organising ideas for formal writing or
• Speaking PREP
• P - point
• R - reason
• E - example
• P - point

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Acronyms

• For writing a coherent paragraph think SEX
• S - statement
• E - elaboration
• X - (e)xample

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Acronyms

• Formula for calculating assets ALOE
• AssetsLiabilitiesOwners Equity
• A- assets
• L- liabilities
• O- owners
• E- equity

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Acronyms

• Seven characteristics of living organisms MRS
  GREN
• M - movement
• R - reproduction
• S - sensitivity
• G - growth
• R - respiration
• E - excretion
• N - nutrition

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Acronyms

• Colours in the spectrum of white light - ROYGBIV
• R - Red
• O - Orange
• Y - Yellow
• G - Green
• B - Blue
• I - Indigo
• V - Violet

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Acronyms

• For trigonometry ratios - SOHCAHTOA
• Sin opp / hyp
• Cos adj / hyp
• Tan opp / adj

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Acronyms

• For calculating GST
• Exclusive price P/8
• Inclusive price P/9

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Acronyms

• Mathematical order of operations
• B E D M A S
• Brackets / Exponents / Division / Multiplication
  / Addition / Subtraction

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Acronyms

• ICT design work CRAPH

C   -   Contrast R   -   Repetition A   -  
Alignment P   -   Proximity H   -   Harmony
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Mnemonics

• Activity series of metals in chemistry - showing
  the reactivity of the elements
• Li K Na Ca Mg Al Zn Fe Sn
• Pb H Cu Hg Ag Au
• Little Katie Never Can Manage A Zebra For She
  Punishes Him Cruelly How Agonisingly Awful.

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Mnemonics

• Musical scales
• E G B D F
• Every Good Boy Deserves Food

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Mnemonics

• Mathematical hint for converting decimals to
  percentages
• 0.36 36 / 0.75 75
• Decimal to Percent
• Twice right it went

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Mnemonics

• Accounting basics
• Left Dr (debit)
• Right Cr (credit)
• Left-hand Drivers Rightly Crash

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Mnemonics

• Quick memory joggers
• su??lementary adjacent angles 180?
• Com?lementary adjacent angles 90

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Mnemonics

• Quick memory joggers
• Acid base
• red blue
• ph balance colour of litmus paper

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Mnemonics

• Now make your own
• Table of elements
• plot situation rising action climax
  resolution