>East is Least (-) and West is Best (+)

This is probably easier to remember than my "Correct Add East". Someone looking at our two posts might think they were opposites, but, actually, we just were looking at it from different directions.

If you're going from True to Magnetic, the "east is least -" works. If you're going the other way, from a compass bearing to a true north bearing, it's the opposite, which is what I was illustrating.

I think they taught us the concept of "correcting" the compass bearing, (Correct Add East) to help us keep straight whether we were going from magnetic, (which must be corrected for variation) to true,(which is, well, true). Keep smilin.