Mnemonics Worksheet: Choosing a Mnemonic

Memory techniques lesson 11: Choosing the right mnemonic · Set 826 · 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.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
2. 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: apple, tiger, kettle? (a) Aunty Tiny Kind (b) Kind Tiny Aunty (c) Tiny Aunty Kind (d) Tiny Kind Aunty
3. 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) GWS (c) SWG (d) WSG
4. 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 6439474297. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 643 474 297 (b) 643 947 44297 (c) 643 947 2497 (d) 643 947 4297
5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Pink Crazy Every (b) Cats Every Pink Crazy (c) Every Cats Pink Crazy (d) Crazy Pink Cats Every
6. 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 573502628195. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5735 0262 81995 (b) 5735 0262 8195 (c) 5735 0262 8915 (d) 5735 2628 195
7. 7.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
8. 8.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) a times-table rhyme (c) date chunks (d) a first-letter sentence
9. 9.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a long story (d) a mind map
10. 10.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
11. 11.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
12. 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rose, watch, pencil? (a) Wins Pink Rani (b) Pink Wins Rani (c) Rani Wins Pink (d) Wins Rani Pink
13. 13.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) CEPC (c) ECPC (d) ECCP
15. 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Sing Wise Nani (b) Nani Eat Sing Wise (c) Eat Nani Sing Wise (d) Wise Sing Eat Nani
16. 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 9143266919. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 911 432 66919 (b) 943 266 919 (c) 914 326 6919 (d) 914 236 6919
17. 17.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
19. 19.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
21. 21.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
23. 23.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
25. 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 5120248954. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 512 024 895 (b) 512 024 8954 (c) 512 024 48954 (d) 152 024 8954
26. 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
27. 27.🧰 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
28. 28.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym word (c) chunking (d) nothing at all
29. 29.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) VEMJSUNM (c) NUSJMEVM (d) MVEMJSUN
31. 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 200831434. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 220 083 1434 (b) 200 813 434 (c) 200 314 34 (d) 200 831 434
32. 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nani Seven Wet (b) Wet Seven Every Nani (c) Every Seven Wet Nani (d) Nani Every Seven Wet
33. 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: jalebi, drum, fan, rose. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RFDJ (b) DJFR (c) DFRJ (d) JDFR
34. 34.🔢 You want to remember the number 558929561153. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5589 2956 1153 (b) 5582 9561 153 (c) 5859 2956 1153 (d) 5558 9295 61153
35. 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: fan, vase, inkpot? (a) Ice Vans Frogs (b) Frogs Vans Ice (c) Vans Frogs Ice (d) Vans Ice Frogs
36. 36.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
37. 37.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 183348281510. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1833 4821 8510 (b) 8334 8281 510 (c) 1883 3482 81510 (d) 1833 4828 1510
40. 40.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a mind map

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