The Great Book of Memory Aids — Brevet Special — PDF
The Great Book of Memory Aids — Brevet Special — PDF
🇫🇷 This book is written in French. There is no English edition.
📚 The Great Book of Memory Aids — Brevet Special — printable PDF version (French title: Le Grand Livre des Pense-Bêtes — Spécial Brevet)
Your teen in 3e (the final year of collège, French middle school, age 14-15) is revising for the brevet, France's end-of-middle-school exam… and it all gets muddled on mock exam day?
The problem isn't your teen: it's the method.
This book brings together 232 tricks for remembering the brevet syllabus, arranged in the order of the exam papers:
⚡ Quick-fire maths, the 20-minute section without a calculator
✏️ Dictation traps and rewriting exercises
📖 Essay writing, step by step
🏛️ The key dates of 3e and the structured essay
🔬 Physics-chemistry, SVT (life and earth sciences), technology
🎤 The oral, plus a revision plan right up to exam day
🖨️ The printable PDF version:
• 137 colour pages, A4 format (cover included)
• Delivered right after purchase
• Print it at home as many times as you like
🎓 3e · new brevet · designed in France 🇫🇷
A book of brevet revision notes, as a PDF
The file contains the whole book: 232 numbered tricks, ten parts in exam order (maths quick-fire skills, maths problems, French language and dictation, French texts and essay writing, history-geography and civics (EMC), physics-chemistry, SVT, technology, oral, method and exam day), a « Le Brevet en 1 page » page (“the brevet on one page”) and a revision plan from 60 days out to the night before. Every content page ends with an exercise: 116 exercises with answers, all of them at the back.
Four examples taken from the file
« × 5, c'est × 10 puis la moitié » (“× 5 is × 10, then halve it”). For the no-calculator section: 48 × 5 = 480 ÷ 2 = 240. The same page covers × 25, × 0.5 and × 11.
« Le verbe obéit à son chef, même quand le chef se cache » (“the verb obeys its boss, even when the boss is hiding”). The dictation trap where the subject is far from the verb, or comes after it.
« 57 on commerce, 92 on s'unit, 2002 on paie en euros » (“’57 we trade, ’92 we unite, 2002 we pay in euros”). European integration in three dates: the Treaty of Rome, the Maastricht Treaty, and the arrival of euro coins and notes.
« Dorsale = Divorce · Subduction = Sous » (“ridge = divorce · subduction = under”). Two plates pulling apart at the ridge, one plate diving under the other in subduction.
What the file lets you do
It opens on a computer, a tablet or a phone: a topic can be reread on the bus. And you print only what is useful: the maths section before the mock exam, the revision plan to pin on the wall, the dictation pages to do again.
PDF or paperback?
The PDF suits those who want to dip in, reprint and read on screen. If you would rather have a book your teen opens without switching on a device, choose the paperback edition of the Brevet Special. Same content, same 232 tricks, same 116 exercises with answers: only the format changes.
This file does not contain the lessons: it gives shortcuts for remembering what was covered in class. See also the Collège PDF (from 6e to 3e, age 11 to 15) and the whole Memos collection.