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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pencil, drum, guava? (a) Goats Dogs Pink (b) Pink Dogs Goats (c) Dogs Pink Goats (d) Dogs Goats Pink
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 117956170. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 117 956 170 (b) 117 961 70 (c) 119 756 170 (d) 111 795 6170
- 4.📅 The digits 02011950 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 02/01/1950 (b) 0201/19/50 (c) 02/0119/50 (d) 020/119/50
- 5.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 531106801. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 531 106 80 (b) 351 106 801 (c) 531 106 801 (d) 553 110 6801
- 7.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) green (b) saffron (c) white
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cook Play Cats (b) Cook Eight Play Cats (c) Cook Play Cats Eight (d) Cats Play Cook Eight
- 10.📅 The digits 18032020 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 18/03/2020 (b) 180/320/20 (c) 1803/20/20 (d) 18/0320/20
- 11.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) a beat or a tune (b) writing it tiny (c) saying it once quietly (d) no rhythm at all
- 12.📅 The digits 24091963 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2409/19/63 (b) 24/09/1963 (c) 240/919/63 (d) 24/0919/63
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) in ABC order (c) in any order (d) backwards
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a dull, plain one (c) one with no picture (d) a very long one
- 15.📅 The digits 06051997 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 060/519/97 (b) 0605/19/97 (c) 06/05/1997 (d) 06/0519/97
- 16.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Pink Crazy Every (b) Crazy Every Pink Cats (c) Crazy Pink Cats Every (d) Every Crazy Pink Cats
- 18.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 19.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 7 (R) stand for? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
- 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bee (b) three (c) rake (d) sea
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “___ Vans Every My Jolly Sing Under Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mice (b) Green (c) All (d) Kites
- 22.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Asia (b) North America (c) Africa (d) Australia
- 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
- 24.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) precipitation (b) condensation (c) collection (d) evaporation
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pink Cook Every (b) Every Cook Pink Crazy (c) Cook Every Pink Crazy (d) Cook Pink Crazy Every
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Play Ants Every (b) Love Every Play Ants (c) Ants Play Love Every (d) Every Love Play Ants
- 27.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 19 and 47
- 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) spell (b) bee (c) snake (d) wing
- 29.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the oceans
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 961430800792. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9614 3080 07922 (b) 9614 3080 0792 (c) 9614 3008 0792 (d) 9143 0800 792
- 31.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) has no pattern (c) changes daily (d) means something to you
- 32.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) bell (d) sun
- 34.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 35.📝 A list to learn, in order: guava, drum, lamp, fan, onion. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DGLFO (b) OFLDG (c) DLFOG (d) GDLFO
- 36.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 37.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its spelling backwards (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 38.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for cat, drum, umpire, vase, ice cream is “Crazy Dance Uncle ___ Ice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Sing (b) Red (c) Vans (d) Jeeps
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) spring (c) ring (d) brain
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs Mice Ants Jeeps (b) Ants Mice Frogs Jeeps (c) Jeeps Frogs Mice Ants (d) Frogs Jeeps Mice Ants
Answer key
- splitting into groups
- Pink Dogs Goats
- 117 956 170
- 02/01/1950
- False
- 531 106 801
- False
- white
- Eight Cook Play Cats
- 18/03/2020
- a beat or a tune
- 24/09/1963
- in the same order
- a silly, funny one
- 06/05/1997
- False
- Every Crazy Pink Cats
- 3
- red
- rake
- Mice
- Africa
- a first-letter sentence
- evaporation
- Every Cook Pink Crazy
- Every Love Play Ants
- 19 and 47
- snake
- the rainbow colours
- 9614 3080 0792
- means something to you
- True
- tree
- a first-letter sentence
- GDLFO
- 2
- what each letter means
- Vans
- brain
- Jeeps Frogs Mice Ants
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