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.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) learn (b) write (c) know (d) say
- 2.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Rani Sing Love ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Fly (b) Nine (c) Dogs (d) My
- 3.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) the letters make no word (c) you like spelling (d) the list is short
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Nani Seven Wet (b) Wet Seven Eight Nani (c) Nani Eight Seven Wet (d) Eight Seven Wet Nani
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, violin, rope? (a) Runs Very Kites (b) Very Runs Kites (c) Very Kites Runs (d) Kites Very Runs
- 6.📝 A list to learn, in order: umbrella, onion, tent, anchor, drum. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UOTAD (b) OTADU (c) OUTAD (d) DATOU
- 7.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for urn, doll, onion, pencil is “Up Dance ___ Play”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Seven (b) Only (c) Grab (d) Lazy
- 10.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, parrot, rope? (a) Runs Pigs Crazy (b) Crazy Pigs Runs (c) Pigs Crazy Runs (d) Pigs Runs Crazy
- 12.True or false: “string” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a maths sum (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a long story
- 14.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a long poem (c) first letters as a word (d) a type of number
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) JFMA (c) FJMA (d) AMFJ
- 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 362191575. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 362 191 575 (b) 362 915 75 (c) 632 191 575 (d) 362 191 5755
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for sock, cat, violin, wallet is “___ Cook Vines Wet”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eat (b) Funny (c) Under (d) Silly
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 400470651967. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4004 7065 1967 (b) 4004 7065 197 (c) 4004 7056 1967 (d) 4004 7065 19967
- 19.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) clock (c) night (d) king
- 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) knock (b) fight (c) fun (d) free
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 3807745492. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 380 774 54492 (b) 380 774 5492 (c) 830 774 5492 (d) 380 774 592
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, inkpot, mango? (a) Inside Bunny Mum (b) Inside Mum Bunny (c) Bunny Inside Mum (d) Mum Inside Bunny
- 24.📅 The digits 02051956 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 02/0519/56 (b) 020/519/56 (c) 0205/19/56 (d) 02/05/1956
- 25.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) changes daily (c) means something to you (d) has no pattern
- 26.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) spell (c) well (d) smell
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a very long one (d) a silly, funny one
- 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: kite, inkpot, guava, van, apple. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) AVGIK (b) IKGVA (c) IGVAK (d) KIGVA
- 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VMEMJSUN (d) VEMJSUNM
- 30.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) WGS (c) WSG (d) SWG
- 31.📝 A list to learn, in order: cat, needle, inkpot, radio, orange. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NIROC (b) NCIRO (c) ORINC (d) CNIRO
- 32.📝 A list to learn, in order: candle, pillow, mango, glass. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GMPC (b) CPMG (c) PCMG (d) PMGC
- 33.📅 The digits 21051982 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 21/0519/82 (b) 2105/19/82 (c) 21/05/1982 (d) 210/519/82
- 34.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) never say it (b) change it each day (c) say it aloud often (d) read it once silently
- 35.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 36.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) one word holds a list (c) they always rhyme (d) they need no learning
- 37.📅 The digits 12121971 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1212/19/71 (b) 121/219/71 (c) 12/1219/71 (d) 12/12/1971
- 38.📅 The digits 13091974 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 13/09/1974 (b) 1309/19/74 (c) 13/0919/74 (d) 130/919/74
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lock (b) spell (c) smell (d) well
- 40.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
Answer key
- know
- Fly
- the letters make no word
- Nani Eight Seven Wet
- Kites Very Runs
- UOTAD
- True
- False
- Only
- the rainbow colours
- Crazy Pigs Runs
- True
- a list in a fixed order
- first letters as a word
- JFMA
- 362 191 575
- Silly
- 4004 7065 1967
- True
- night
- free
- 380 774 5492
- Bunny Inside Mum
- 02/05/1956
- means something to you
- rock
- a silly, funny one
- KIGVA
- MVEMJSUN
- SWG
- CNIRO
- CPMG
- 21/05/1982
- say it aloud often
- a rhyme
- one word holds a list
- 12/12/1971
- 13/09/1974
- lock
- splitting into groups
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