What mnemonics do you use?

Answer 1

"A Bactrian (B) Camel has two (B) humps
but a Dromedary (D) only has one (D) hump."

Geddit?

Answer 2

Spelling "because"...

Bigger Elephants Can Always Upset Smaller Elephants

And in University, definitely this for the cranial nerves:

On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finn and German Vend Some Hops

O - Olfactory
O - Optic
O - Oculomotor
T- Trochlear
T - Trigeminal
A - Abducens
F - Facial
A - Acoustic / Vestibular - cochlear
G - Glossopharyngeal
V - Vagus
S - Spinal Accessory
H - Hypoglossal


And this is a useful chant for what happened to Henry VIII's wives:

Divorced, Beheaded, Died...
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.

(Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour...
Anne of Cleves, Kathryn Howard, Katherine Parr)

Answer 3

I passed Chemistry using mnemonics. Here's just one example.

ROY G. BIV-the rainbow
Red
Orange
Yellow

Green

Blue
Indigo
Violet


Now for a more fun mnemonic for EPCOT center
Every
Person
Comes
Out
Tired

Answer 4

Mnemonics are letters/words/words that help one memorize something. for instance: PEDMAS people ingesting scrumptious Meat At Steakhouse Parenthesis, Exponents, branch, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction (order of operations).

Answer 5

ROY G. BIV for colors in the visible spectrum
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas for the planets in the solar system.
King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk for the metric prefixes.

Answer 6

You look at a room that you spend a lot of time in and create an order of things to look at.
If it was a classroom, you may say- 1. Look at the black board. 2. Look at the Teacher desk 3. Look at the student desks 4. Look at the clock.

And each day look at these things and remember their order (the order is very important)
Then, say you need to memorize some presidents in order. Say "Washington is like a blank slate- like the black board. Lincon led us out of the civil war- like the teacher at the teacher desk. Bill Clinton reformed education like the student desks, and George W. Bush's term will never finish- like the clock."
and you associate what you need to memorize with these memory blocks that you've created. The more things in the room you remember in order, the longer order you can memorize of other, unrelated things.
I've done this up to around 30 using things in my car- and it works great and fast but requires a bit of commitment to keep the memory blocks fresh. -you have to go over that basic list often.

Answer 7

In mathematics:
pemdas - the order of operations. Parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division from left to right, addition and subtraction.

In science - the planetary order:
I used to use My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas but now that pluto's status is in question I use - My very educated mother just served us NOTHING.

enjoy!

Answer 8

My physics teacher taught us a politically incorrect mnemonic for the colour values on resistors;

Black boys rape our young girls but virgins go without.

Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white.

Answer 9

RHYTHM-Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move
RHYME-Rhyme Helps Your Mind Evolve

Answer 10

Every good boy does fine for the treble clef. EGBDF
FACE for the bass clef.
Righty Tighty Lefty Loosey.

Answer 11

Richard of york gave battle in vain - colours of the rainbow
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet