Acronyms

honeymonster

Does anyone have any funny or memorable acronyms for any subjects that require a lot of memory work (Business, Economics)?

Eg. Types of demand = FIBES

Functional
Impulse
Bandwagon
Exclusive
Speculative

PHB

What I do is I learn off where things go on the page, and it all comes together very nicely.
I tried doing that acronyms technique but i found it never really fit many things properly

Duffman

Originally posted by honeymonster
Does anyone have any funny or memorable acronyms for any subjects that require a lot of memory work (Business, Economics)?

Eg. Types of demand = FIBES

Functional
Impulse
Bandwagon
Exclusive
Speculative

Hrm... ok please tell me that comes from the business course, not economics...!! :eek:

honeymonster

its emm Econ........ yeah its business

ferdi

thats on the business course:eek:
where!!??

honeymonster

No I was being sarcastic, its on the economics course.

Duffman

Ok... I'm reasonably sure that's not important... not required knowledge for the supply/demand question.. well I hope..

honeymonster

Originally posted by PHB
What I do is I learn off where things go on the page, and it all comes together very nicely.
I tried doing that acronyms technique but i found it never really fit many things properly

does that not get really confusing?

or maybe im not gettin it

Mewzel

for biology, the oder of grouping for classifiction:

Kindred People Call Out For Guinness Stout
ie.
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

Duffman

King Phillip Can Often Fart Great Smells


It's not mine, I'm so sorry.... :eek:

smiles

Biology - 7 characteristics of living things:

MRS GREN
Movement, Reproduction, Sensitivity (it's been 4 years, not sure if it sensitivity but you should know!), Growth, Respiration, Excretion, Nutrition

<< Fio >>

PHB

You would expect it to but it doesnt if you've got a good memory. The best thing about it is when you are revising after you see the first line at least 60% of the stuff comes flying back into your head.

Sangre

That happens to me aswell PHB, right now I can see my Geog France answer.
But the really annoying thing is when you walk out of an exam, see the first line and you've realised you've missed a whole fecking paragraph!:mad:

Qualm

Heres a few acronyms for the electrochemical series in chemistry:

Pretty
Sally
Married
A
Zulu
In
The
Lovely
Honolulu
Causing
Many
Strange
Glances

or, as a few bored ppl in my class made up:

Poor
Spelling
Means
A
Zed (ie, a fail)
In
The
Leaving
Higher
Chemistry

Bad thing is tho, i cant remember what exactly each of the letters stands for now! Ah well, i got my A :P

PHB

That happens to me aswell PHB, right now I can see my Geog France answer.
But the really annoying thing is when you walk out of an exam, see the first line and you've realised you've missed a whole fecking paragraph!

Yeh I do that all the time in history, luckily theres a lot of paragraphs but its ok.
My only real problem with memorisation is remembering the sub-headings, and once i've got taht, it all comes together

I have tried making Acronyms but I just find you can't find a word to do it, Im thinking oh just listening to Macbeth about 50 times between now and the leaving cert on tape, same with the poetry. Its really easy to remember stuff if you just listen to it all the time, just like words to songs.

Sev

MR. DAMPS TAVERN

Initials of all the french verbs that use 'etre' in passe compose.

Duffman

Yep, have one of those odd memories that retains stuff straight from the page too... 'tis fun...

PHB

I'd kill for a friend of mines memory.
Its absolutly amazing, he reads something once or twice and he rememebrs it almost perfectly, hes got a photographic memory the basterd

Anybody got any other cool memory techniques? Sometimes before exams if theres something really importent that I think is gona come up I listen to it with a song playing in the background over and over and try and learn off the stuff. Then before an exam I'll listen to the music and it'll all come to me really quickly

Bottle_of_Smoke

Sin = opposite/hypotenuse
Cos = adjacent/hypotenuse
Tan = opposite/adjacent

Soh Cah Toa