Mnemonics Worksheet: Choosing a Mnemonic

Memory techniques lesson 11: Choosing the right mnemonic · Set 365 · 40 questions

Memory tip (The right trick for the job): Acronym: VIBGYOR for the rainbow colours. First-letter sentence: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower. Rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”. Chunking: 9876543210 as 987 654 3210. Ask: is it a number, a list or one fact? Then choose chunking, an acronym or sentence, or a rhyme.

1. 1.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eat Cats Pink Cats (b) Cats Pink Cats Eat (c) Cats Eat Pink Cats (d) Eat Cats Cats Pink
4. 4.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: goat, needle, flute? (a) Green Neat Frogs (b) Frogs Neat Green (c) Neat Frogs Green (d) Neat Green Frogs
6. 6.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a mind map (d) an acronym
7. 7.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a times-table rhyme (d) chunking
10. 10.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, needle, wallet, sock, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NWSLC (b) NCWSL (c) LSWNC (d) CNWSL
11. 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Lions Every (b) Every Lions Pink All (c) Lions Pink All Every (d) Lions Every Pink All
12. 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 554101991969. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5541 0199 1969 (b) 5541 0199 1996 (c) 5541 0199 19699 (d) 5510 1991 969
13. 13.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) CPCE (c) ECCP (d) ECPC
15. 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Grab Sing (b) Grab Wet Sing (c) Sing Wet Grab (d) Wet Sing Grab
16. 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny My All Jeeps (b) Jeeps Funny My All (c) All My Funny Jeeps (d) Funny Jeeps My All
17. 17.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) nothing at all (b) an acronym word (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
19. 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, monkey, anchor? (a) Mum Cook Aunty (b) Aunty Mum Cook (c) Mum Aunty Cook (d) Cook Mum Aunty
20. 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: radio, lemon, goat? (a) Green Love Red (b) Red Love Green (c) Love Red Green (d) Love Green Red
21. 21.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a long book (c) a memory trick (d) a kind of pen
22. 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Grab Sing (b) Sing Wins Grab (c) Wins Sing Grab (d) Grab Wins Sing
23. 23.🔢 You want to remember the number 624655444033. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6246 5454 4033 (b) 6624 6554 44033 (c) 6246 5544 4033 (d) 6246 5544 033
24. 24.🔢 You want to remember the number 230896867011. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2308 9686 7011 (b) 2308 9686 011 (c) 2308 9688 67011 (d) 2308 9686 0711
25. 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Green Wins Seven (b) Wins Green Seven (c) Seven Wins Green (d) Wins Seven Green
26. 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jeep, apple, duck? (a) Dad All Jolly (b) All Dad Jolly (c) All Jolly Dad (d) Jolly All Dad
27. 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ENSW (b) WSEN (c) ESWN (d) NESW
28. 28.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
29. 29.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
30. 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: onion, flute, guava? (a) Old Frogs Green (b) Frogs Old Green (c) Green Frogs Old (d) Frogs Green Old
31. 31.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) MVEMJSUN (c) VEMJSUNM (d) NUSJMEVM
32. 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: bucket, anchor, orange? (a) Only All Big (b) Big All Only (c) All Big Only (d) All Only Big
33. 33.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
34. 34.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
35. 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Jeeps Mice Aunty (b) Aunty Mice Funny Jeeps (c) Funny Mice Aunty Jeeps (d) Jeeps Funny Mice Aunty
36. 36.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: lamp, tiger, spoon? (a) Love Tea Silly (b) Silly Tea Love (c) Tea Love Silly (d) Tea Silly Love
40. 40.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True

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