Mnemonics Worksheet: Choosing a Mnemonic

Memory techniques lesson 11: Choosing the right mnemonic · Set 665 · 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.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) date chunks (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a times-table rhyme
2. 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 4102518998. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 410 251 8998 (b) 410 258 998 (c) 410 251 8989 (d) 410 025 18998
3. 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) ELPA (b) LEPA (c) LPAE (d) APLE
4. 4.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a kind of pen (b) a memory trick (c) a type of exam (d) a long book
5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Silly Love Funny (b) Funny Love Silly Rani (c) Silly Love Funny Rani (d) Silly Rani Love Funny
6. 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 3150780487. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 315 070 487 (b) 315 078 80487 (c) 315 078 0487 (d) 315 078 0478
7. 7.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
8. 8.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
9. 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Neat Eight Seven Wet (b) Wet Seven Eight Neat (c) Eight Neat Seven Wet (d) Eight Seven Wet Neat
10. 10.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 628227702. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 628 277 02 (b) 622 827 702 (c) 628 227 702 (d) 628 227 7002
12. 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VEMJSUNM
13. 13.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
15. 15.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 2278575995. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 227 857 599 (b) 227 857 59995 (c) 227 857 9595 (d) 227 857 5995
17. 17.🔢 You want to remember the number 230454847833. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2305 4847 833 (b) 2304 5488 47833 (c) 2304 5448 7833 (d) 2304 5484 7833
18. 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 235257167665. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2352 5716 665 (b) 2335 2571 67665 (c) 2355 2716 7665 (d) 2352 5716 7665
19. 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jump Frogs Mum All (b) All Mum Frogs Jump (c) Frogs Mum All Jump (d) Frogs Jump Mum All
20. 20.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 918905540216. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9189 0554 40216 (b) 9189 0554 0216 (c) 9180 9554 0216 (d) 1890 5540 216
22. 22.📝 A list to learn, in order: orange, rope, glass, monkey, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RGMFO (b) FMGRO (c) ORGMF (d) ROGMF
23. 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: flute, monkey, doll? (a) Dance Mice Fly (b) Mice Dance Fly (c) Mice Fly Dance (d) Fly Mice Dance
24. 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, doll, tomato? (a) Toys Dogs Jump (b) Dogs Jump Toys (c) Jump Dogs Toys (d) Dogs Toys Jump
25. 25.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) SRLF (c) FLSR (d) SLFR
26. 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
27. 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 575204442379. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5752 0444 2739 (b) 5755 2044 42379 (c) 5752 0444 2379 (d) 5750 4442 379
28. 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 862740396413. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8627 4039 64113 (b) 8627 4039 643 (c) 6827 4039 6413 (d) 8627 4039 6413
29. 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) WGS
30. 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, ice cream, frog, jalebi, ladder. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LJFIN (b) NIFJL (c) IFJLN (d) INFJL
31. 31.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 496660635877. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4966 6063 8577 (b) 4966 6063 5877 (c) 4496 6606 35877 (d) 4966 6063 577
33. 33.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) IBGYORV (d) IVBGYOR
34. 34.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym word (d) nothing at all
36. 36.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECPC (c) CEPC (d) ECCP
37. 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
38. 38.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🔢 You want to remember the number 4311510744. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 431 151 10744 (b) 431 151 0474 (c) 431 151 0744 (d) 431 510 744

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