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 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.🔤 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.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a long story (d) a picture
- 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.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
- 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.📅 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.✏️ 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.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) bright (b) plane (c) bee (d) make
- 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.✏️ 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.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) lock (b) lane (c) run (d) bright
- 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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
- 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lake (b) shake (c) make (d) free
- 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.🔢 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.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Pacific (c) Southern (d) Indian
- 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.🔤 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.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) March (b) January (c) February (d) April
- 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.📝 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.🔤 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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🔢 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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.✏️ 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
- MVEMJSUN
- RSLF
- a list in a fixed order
- Wise
- a memory trick
- true
- 24/09/1950
- the letters make no word
- False
- plane
- Pigs
- a silly, funny one
- Mars
- initials match the list
- True
- Mice
- bright
- Love
- first letters as a word
- free
- Asia
- 281 567 4270
- Indian
- Eight Cook Pink Cook
- NESW
- True
- a rhyme
- April
- means something to you
- FGLVI
- PAISA
- splitting into groups
- west
- Neat Eat Sing Wet
- Grab
- 136 271 886
- a first-letter sentence
- Eight Crazy Pink Crazy
- saffron
- Grab
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