Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test
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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) three (b) spell (c) sell (d) done
- 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.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: “three” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 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.🧰 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.True or false: “snake” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 8.🎵 Which word does “sing” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) sun (c) king (d) night
- 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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) rain (c) king (d) cake
- 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) bell (c) cake (d) night
- 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.📝 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) light (b) fight (c) white (d) make
- 34.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) rain (c) tree (d) clock
- 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.🎵 Which word does “well” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) bell (c) night (d) clock
- 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.🧰 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.🧰 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.🔤 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
- three
- JFMA
- False
- True
- free
- an acronym
- False
- king
- Crazy
- a rhyme
- Eight Cook Pigs Cats
- Jump Frogs Mum All
- Ice Dogs Only
- Eight Cook Pink Cook
- initials match the list
- Sing Wins Goats
- Australia
- sun
- 26/11/2020
- a silly, funny one
- AANSAEA
- 6
- a first-letter sentence
- Seven Wise Goats
- IJDNM
- False
- RSLF
- night
- one word holds a list
- IAJGF
- 603 611 0822
- the letters make no word
- make
- clock
- Eight Crazy Play Cook
- bell
- Jump
- a first-letter sentence
- chunking
- MVEMJSUN
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