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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 105 · 40 questions
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Memory tip (Letters, rhymes and chunks): Acronyms and sentences: first letters, in the same order as the list. Rhymes: listen for the same ending sound. Chunking: same digits, same order, just grouped. Choose the tool: numbers → chunks, lists → acronym or sentence, one fact → rhyme.

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  1. 1.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) three (b) spell (c) sell (d) done
  2. 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) AMFJ (c) JFMA (d) FMAJ
  3. 3.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: “three” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) fast (b) cold (c) long (d) free
  6. 6.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) a mind map (c) an acronym (d) a long story
  7. 7.True or false: “snake” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎵 Which word does “sing” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) sun (c) king (d) night
  9. 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for anchor, goat, candle, watch, drum is “Aunty Goats ___ Wise Dogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wise (b) Crazy (c) Seven (d) Eight
  10. 10.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
  11. 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cook Pigs Cats (b) Cook Eight Pigs Cats (c) Cats Pigs Cook Eight (d) Cook Pigs Cats Eight
  12. 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) All Mum Frogs Jump (b) Jump Frogs Mum All (c) Frogs Jump Mum All (d) Frogs Mum All Jump
  13. 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ice cream, drum, onion? (a) Dogs Ice Only (b) Dogs Only Ice (c) Only Dogs Ice (d) Ice Dogs Only
  14. 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Eight Pink Cook (b) Eight Cook Pink Cook (c) Cook Pink Cook Eight (d) Eight Cook Cook Pink
  15. 15.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a list of numbers (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
  16. 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Sing Goats (b) Wins Goats Sing (c) Goats Wins Sing (d) Sing Wins Goats
  17. 17.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Australia (b) Europe (c) North America (d) Antarctica
  18. 18.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) rain (c) king (d) cake
  19. 19.📅 The digits 26112020 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 261/120/20 (b) 26/11/2020 (c) 26/1120/20 (d) 2611/20/20
  20. 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) one with no picture (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
  21. 21.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) AANSAAE (c) AEASNAA (d) ANSAEAA
  22. 22.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  23. 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
  24. 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Goats Seven (b) Goats Wise Seven (c) Seven Wise Goats (d) Wise Seven Goats
  25. 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: ice cream, jeep, drum, net, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JDNMI (b) MNDJI (c) JIDNM (d) IJDNM
  26. 26.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) FLSR (b) SLFR (c) RSLF (d) SRLF
  28. 28.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) bell (c) cake (d) night
  29. 29.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they are longer (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
  30. 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: ice cream, anchor, jalebi, glass, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IAJGF (b) AJGFI (c) AIJGF (d) FGJAI
  31. 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 6036110822. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 603 611 0822 (b) 603 611 00822 (c) 603 611 022 (d) 063 611 0822
  32. 32.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) there is no list (c) the letters make no word (d) you like spelling
  33. 33.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) light (b) fight (c) white (d) make
  34. 34.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) rain (c) tree (d) clock
  35. 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Play Cook Eight (b) Cook Play Crazy Eight (c) Crazy Eight Play Cook (d) Eight Crazy Play Cook
  36. 36.🎵 Which word does “well” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) bell (c) night (d) clock
  37. 37.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for orange, jeep, umpire, ice cream is “Only ___ Up Ice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jump (b) Aunty (c) Bakes (d) Only
  38. 38.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a times-table rhyme (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
  39. 39.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
  40. 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) NUSJMEVM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VMEMJSUN

Answer key

  1. three
  2. JFMA
  3. False
  4. True
  5. free
  6. an acronym
  7. False
  8. king
  9. Crazy
  10. a rhyme
  11. Eight Cook Pigs Cats
  12. Jump Frogs Mum All
  13. Ice Dogs Only
  14. Eight Cook Pink Cook
  15. initials match the list
  16. Sing Wins Goats
  17. Australia
  18. sun
  19. 26/11/2020
  20. a silly, funny one
  21. AANSAEA
  22. 6
  23. a first-letter sentence
  24. Seven Wise Goats
  25. IJDNM
  26. False
  27. RSLF
  28. night
  29. one word holds a list
  30. IAJGF
  31. 603 611 0822
  32. the letters make no word
  33. make
  34. clock
  35. Eight Crazy Play Cook
  36. bell
  37. Jump
  38. a first-letter sentence
  39. chunking
  40. MVEMJSUN

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