Mnemonics Worksheet: Choosing a Mnemonic

Memory techniques lesson 11: Choosing the right mnemonic · Set 909 · 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.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jug, shoe, glass? (a) Seven Jolly Green (b) Green Seven Jolly (c) Jolly Seven Green (d) Seven Green Jolly
2. 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: glass, flute, apple? (a) Frogs All Green (b) Frogs Green All (c) All Frogs Green (d) Green Frogs All
3. 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 5306084510. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 530 084 510 (b) 530 608 5410 (c) 530 608 4510 (d) 530 600 84510
4. 4.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 290682244786. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2906 8224 4786 (b) 2906 8224 44786 (c) 2968 2244 786 (d) 2906 8242 4786
7. 7.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) GWS
8. 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umbrella, lamp, whistle? (a) Wins Lions Up (b) Lions Wins Up (c) Up Lions Wins (d) Lions Up Wins
9. 9.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
10. 10.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
11. 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, tent, violin? (a) Tea Very Nani (b) Very Tea Nani (c) Tea Nani Very (d) Nani Tea Very
12. 12.📝 A list to learn, in order: guava, umbrella, needle, violin, apple. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GUNVA (b) UGNVA (c) AVNUG (d) UNVAG
13. 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FJMA (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
14. 14.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wet Seven (b) Seven Wet Goats (c) Wet Goats Seven (d) Wet Seven Goats
16. 16.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) an acronym (b) a mind map (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
17. 17.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
18. 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: violin, lemon, banana? (a) Big Love Vans (b) Vans Love Big (c) Love Big Vans (d) Love Vans Big
19. 19.📝 A list to learn, in order: umbrella, jug, fan, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PFJU (b) JUFP (c) JFPU (d) UJFP
20. 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECCP (c) ECPC (d) CEPC
21. 21.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 481293128570. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4129 3128 570 (b) 4481 2931 28570 (c) 4812 9312 8570 (d) 4812 9312 8750
23. 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pink Cook Every (b) Cook Every Pink Cook (c) Every Cook Pink Cook (d) Every Cook Cook Pink
24. 24.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Green Wins Silly (b) Silly Wins Green (c) Wins Silly Green (d) Wins Green Silly
27. 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 475243507799. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4752 4507 799 (b) 4752 4350 7799 (c) 4752 4305 7799 (d) 4752 4350 77799
28. 28.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, mango, tomato? (a) Toys Mice Cook (b) Mice Cook Toys (c) Mice Toys Cook (d) Cook Mice Toys
31. 31.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) an acronym
32. 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: violin, tomato, apple? (a) Tea Very Aunty (b) Tea Aunty Very (c) Aunty Tea Very (d) Very Tea Aunty
33. 33.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: violin, banana, monkey? (a) Big Vines Mice (b) Vines Big Mice (c) Mice Big Vines (d) Big Mice Vines
35. 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 773004013. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 773 040 13 (b) 773 004 031 (c) 777 300 4013 (d) 773 004 013
36. 36.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
37. 37.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) an acronym word (b) a first-letter sentence (c) nothing at all (d) chunking
38. 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
39. 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Red Seven Lazy Frogs (b) Frogs Lazy Seven Red (c) Seven Lazy Frogs Red (d) Seven Red Lazy Frogs
40. 40.🔢 You want to remember the number 219706829. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 219 970 6829 (b) 217 068 29 (c) 219 706 829 (d) 219 708 629

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