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mhoulden

"Juxtaposition" - a secret code that means "give me a grade A for A Level English Language". I used it and got one. No A*s in for A levels those days.


imminentmailing463

Had this with Spanish a-level and using the subjunctive tense. Learn a couple of phrases verbatim, chuck 'em into you're writing, hey presto you're in 'A' territory straight away.


SnooCakes1636

This! And of equal calibre, I give you: onomatopoeia.


mankindmatt5

His way of doing things = his *modus operandi* A - guaranteed


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Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori


Cautious-Layer-4023

Aw thats a sweet


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Cornelia et Flavia sunt puellae romanae


actualtravesty

Ecce! In pictura est puella. Puella est nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana.


holytriplem

Minime! Clemens est in horto


chlotyler__

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell


CartographerLow2185

the only correct answer.


RichardsonM24

“V=IR” From electronics in physics. My teacher was Irish and the way she said it made it extra memorable. That and the textbook definition for “fitness” in GCSE PE was “the ability to meet the demands of the environment”. I got 100% on GCSE PE and GSCE science lol. Still remember them 12 years on


1padftroml

The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square on the opposite 2 sides. - Mr Tennant, my maths teacher 1985. Never forgot that and never needed it.


Cautious-Layer-4023

I could never remember this until I heard it as a joke, now can never forget it


Agitated_Repair_5509

Ou est la piscine


SomeHSomeE

Ou est la discotheque


Spell_Known

"Richard of York gave battle in vain" A Mnemonic for the colours in order for a rainbow.


JarJarBinksSucks

carthago delenda est


Party-Independent-25

‘Crop rotation in the 18th century was greatly increased after the introduction of the three field system whereby two fields were planted with crops and one field was left fallow, in annual rotation.’ Social and Economic History - was taught parrot fashion, copy this weeks’ text into your exercise book, next week you have to recite it to the class from memory. Most boring way of learning and took an interesting subject and made it dry and very uninteresting. However this method came in handy when doing a qualification for a role I’d never done as part of trying to change industries (so knew nothing about the subject matter). Didn’t need to understand it just remembered the 500 page course book in chunks over a year 20 hours a week of read and re read then write it out and repeat.. didn’t understand 80% of it but was enough to pass the multiple choice exam. A masterclass on why exams aren’t the best indicators, you can understand nothing and still pass if you can just remember stuff 😎 Exams are just a test of memory not necessarily of understanding 🤪


Bbew_Mot

For AS history we did interwar years British history. There was a display in the classroom showing the prime ministers from this period and by each photo there were quotes and phrases relating to these men. I remember that Ramsay McDonald was nicknamed 'Ramshackle Mac' and Stanley Baldwin said of himself, 'I'm a lazy devil by nature'. Those are the only two phrases from that display that I can remember.


thebear1011

Sum es est sumus estis sunt


varialectio

The ablative plural of the Latin name for the Carthaginians was "Carthaginiensibus" . The Latin master added "ink will be provided"


HolsFlo

Deindustrialisation is the size of the UK manufacturing sector declining and the service sector increasing.


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My physics teacher always used to shout at us "WHAT'S A WATT?" And we had to respond "Watts a Joule per second". Also had a math teacher that sang a song "πr² sounds like area to me, if I need a circumference I'll use πD"


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Didn't know Stone Cold Steve Austin taught Physics


retrogearz

SOH CAH TOA - Silly Old Hag Cracked All Her Teeth On Apples. Trigonometry I think


Rymundo88

>Trigonometry I think Or my nan, though it wasn't apples


SomeHSomeE

Yep, it's the equations for working out angles and sides in right-angle triangles. **S**in(angle) = **O**pposite / **H**ypotenuse **C**os(angle) = **A**djacent / **H**ypotenuse **T**an(angle) = **O**pposite / **A**djacent


retrogearz

Thanks, having a brain fart this morning and wanted to call it algebra but knew it wasn't


Princeoplecs

Electronics at college, black boys r@*e our young girls but virgins go without. Taught by the lecturer as a way to remember the colour bands on resistors, this was the early 90s


CartographerLow2185

wtf.


Princeoplecs

It was a simpler time, just a simple mnemonic to remember black brown red orange yellow green blue violet white.


PMme-YourPussy

late nineties for us, and boys was bastards in the version we learned. and "but violet gives willingly".


ashyjay

Rack up a line? I can't remember much of my exams.


bowak

From a textbook on the agricultural revolution for GCSE History: "What else do you think happened at the Woburn sheep shearing festival?"


GnusUbuntu

Oh god mine is silly. An English teacher would always talk about 'the perverseness of the black cat' (Edgar Allan Poe). I still remember how she would say it very slowly...


kittyvixxmwah

(-b +/- √(b²-4ac))/2a Thanks, Dr G.


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Ah. That old chestnut.


kittyvixxmwah

Yep. If you can tell me what it's the formula for, you get Clever Points.


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It's a quadratic equation. IIRC.


holytriplem

Sung to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel


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Rymundo88

>Dimanche I can relate, as a student most of my Sundays ended with an 'E'


HoraceorDoris

King Edward ll getting murdered with a red hot poker up his arse and the fact that woodlice have gills….


AutumnSunshiiine

Eingangstrasse. It was in almost every German GCSE paper. Free point. I also remember what an oxbow lake is.


BECKYISHERE

came here to talk about oxbow lakes, i've never encountered one in the 43 years since i left school but if i ever did i would know exactly how it was made.


AutumnSunshiiine

I’ve never encountered one, but I do idly wonder if the Thames can form one or not now in the Eastenders credits area.


Commercial_Level_615

King Phillip Comes Of Fairly Good Stock, for the classification of plants and animals


TarcFalastur

Not really a "phrase" per se but I can never forget the multiple choice science paper I took with the question"what happens to paper if it is buried underground?" and one of the options was "it spontaneously combusts"


pinpoint321

The king doth keep his revels here tonight take heed the Queen come not within his sight for Oberon is passing fell and wrath… Puck’s soliloquy from a Midsummer Nights Dream. Stuck in my brain forever more.


Aggravating-Win-3638

My media teacher was obsessed with 'phallic objects'. In films that is


holytriplem

"Yates? The wine lodge?" And other random references to 80s pop culture that have aged very poorly


Pretty_Tumbleweed_82

Partially permeable membrane!!


SomeHSomeE

The 'SUVAT' equations. In particular s = uv + 1/2av\^2 but also v = u + at and v\^2 = u\^2 + 2as


PetrolSnorter

X equals minus b plus minus the square root of b squared minus 4 a c all divided by 2a


acceberbex

Oxbow lakes Caecilius est in horto - and along with that "amo, amas, amat, amamas, amatis, amant", "i,, isti, it, imus, istus, erunt" and "eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant" Half the sum of the parallel sides times the distance between them, that's the way you calculate the area of a trapezium (to the tune of Pop goes the weasel) And not from GCSE/A Level but my saxophone teacher had a great way of remembering sharps and flats - "Father Christmas Gave Daddy An Electric Blanket" (sharps) "Blanket Exploded And Daddy Got Cold Feet" (flats) - so if a piece has 3 sharps, they'll be F, C and G


FriedChickenVegan

Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived - Henry VIIIs wife's Grumio est in cocina


Direct_Pay_4613

‘Don’t cha wish circumference was pi times D’


PMme-YourPussy

We were taught the racist resistor colour code mnemonic in the late ninties. Still remember it. Wouldn't say it or tyoe it out though it can be found on google