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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 122 · 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 acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) MVEMJSUN (c) NUSJMEVM (d) VEMJSUNM
  2. 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) FLSR (b) SLFR (c) SRLF (d) RSLF
  3. 3.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a long story (d) a picture
  4. 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Sing ___ Green”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Funny (b) Bunny (c) Vans (d) Wise
  5. 5.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
  6. 6.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) known (b) clear (c) true (d) right
  7. 7.📅 The digits 24091950 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 24/0919/50 (b) 24/09/1950 (c) 2409/19/50 (d) 240/919/50
  8. 8.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) you like spelling (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
  9. 9.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) bright (b) plane (c) bee (d) make
  11. 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “___ Ants Ice Seven Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dance (b) Pigs (c) Kind (d) Frogs
  12. 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a very long one (c) a silly, funny one (d) one with no picture
  13. 13.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 4 (M) stand for? (a) Mercury (b) Neptune (c) Saturn (d) Mars
  14. 14.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a list of numbers (c) initials match the list (d) a rhyme about cats
  15. 15.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for igloo, jeep, owl, monkey is “Ice Jump Only ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Mice (c) Under (d) Every
  17. 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) lock (b) lane (c) run (d) bright
  18. 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for guava, duck, ladder, anchor, radio is “Grab Dogs ___ Aunty Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) My (b) Love (c) Vines (d) Seven
  19. 19.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
  20. 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lake (b) shake (c) make (d) free
  21. 21.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 1 (A) stand for? (a) Australia (b) Africa (c) Asia (d) South America
  22. 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 2815674270. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 281 564 7270 (b) 215 674 270 (c) 281 567 4270 (d) 281 567 74270
  23. 23.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Pacific (c) Southern (d) Indian
  24. 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cook Pink Cook (b) Eight Cook Cook Pink (c) Cook Pink Cook Eight (d) Cook Eight Pink Cook
  25. 25.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ENSW (b) ESWN (c) WSEN (d) NESW
  26. 26.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
  28. 28.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) March (b) January (c) February (d) April
  29. 29.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) means something to you (b) changes daily (c) has no pattern (d) is very long
  30. 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: frog, guava, lamp, vase, inkpot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IVLGF (b) GLVIF (c) FGLVI (d) GFLVI
  31. 31.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) ASIAP (b) AISAP (c) PAISA (d) APISA
  32. 32.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
  33. 33.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) south (b) north (c) east (d) west
  34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Neat Sing Wet (b) Eat Sing Wet Neat (c) Wet Sing Eat Neat (d) Neat Eat Sing Wet
  35. 35.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for whistle, glass, pencil, vase is “Wet ___ Pigs Vines”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Toys (c) Grab (d) Every
  36. 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 136271886. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 163 271 886 (b) 136 271 886 (c) 362 718 86 (d) 136 271 1886
  37. 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
  38. 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pink Crazy Eight (b) Eight Crazy Pink Crazy (c) Eight Crazy Crazy Pink (d) Crazy Eight Pink Crazy
  39. 39.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) white (b) green (c) saffron
  40. 40.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for onion, watch, rose, glass, vase is “Owls Wet Runs ___ Vines”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lions (b) Grab (c) Only (d) Eight

Answer key

  1. MVEMJSUN
  2. RSLF
  3. a list in a fixed order
  4. Wise
  5. a memory trick
  6. true
  7. 24/09/1950
  8. the letters make no word
  9. False
  10. plane
  11. Pigs
  12. a silly, funny one
  13. Mars
  14. initials match the list
  15. True
  16. Mice
  17. bright
  18. Love
  19. first letters as a word
  20. free
  21. Asia
  22. 281 567 4270
  23. Indian
  24. Eight Cook Pink Cook
  25. NESW
  26. True
  27. a rhyme
  28. April
  29. means something to you
  30. FGLVI
  31. PAISA
  32. splitting into groups
  33. west
  34. Neat Eat Sing Wet
  35. Grab
  36. 136 271 886
  37. a first-letter sentence
  38. Eight Crazy Pink Crazy
  39. saffron
  40. Grab

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