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.🔢 You want to remember the number 207824227. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 207 824 27 (b) 200 782 4227 (c) 207 284 227 (d) 207 824 227
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) APLE (c) ELPA (d) LEPA
- 3.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a mind map (d) an acronym
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, guava, anchor? (a) Ants Goats Jeeps (b) Jeeps Goats Ants (c) Goats Ants Jeeps (d) Goats Jeeps Ants
- 5.📅 The digits 15092020 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 15/0920/20 (b) 15/09/2020 (c) 150/920/20 (d) 1509/20/20
- 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) ASIAP (c) PAISA (d) AISAP
- 7.🔢 You want to remember the number 811181769369. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8111 8176 9369 (b) 8111 8176 93699 (c) 8111 8179 369 (d) 8111 8716 9369
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ladder, van, igloo? (a) Very Ink Lions (b) Lions Very Ink (c) Ink Very Lions (d) Very Lions Ink
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knee (b) wake (c) snake (d) make
- 10.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) cake (c) king (d) tree
- 11.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 12.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 13.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pillow, wallet, cat? (a) Cook Wet Pink (b) Pink Wet Cook (c) Wet Cook Pink (d) Wet Pink Cook
- 15.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 16.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Sing Green (b) Wise Green Sing (c) Green Wise Sing (d) Sing Wise Green
- 18.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bun (b) chain (c) ton (d) run
- 19.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SLFR (b) SRLF (c) FLSR (d) RSLF
- 20.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) green (b) white (c) saffron
- 21.📅 The digits 25081965 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 25/0819/65 (b) 25/08/1965 (c) 250/819/65 (d) 2508/19/65
- 22.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) shell (b) brain (c) sock (d) bake
- 23.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) reading very fast
- 24.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) king (b) night (c) cake (d) bell
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, flute, bucket? (a) Fly Bunny Jolly (b) Fly Jolly Bunny (c) Jolly Fly Bunny (d) Bunny Fly Jolly
- 26.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Every Cook Cook Pink (b) Cook Every Pink Cook (c) Cook Pink Cook Every (d) Every Cook Pink Cook
- 28.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 339618718. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 336 918 718 (b) 396 187 18 (c) 333 961 8718 (d) 339 618 718
- 31.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, fan, lemon, key, ice cream. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IKLFB (b) FLKIB (c) FBLKI (d) BFLKI
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: urn, kettle, duck? (a) Dogs Kites Up (b) Kites Dogs Up (c) Kites Up Dogs (d) Up Kites Dogs
- 33.📅 The digits 01082024 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 01/0820/24 (b) 01/08/2024 (c) 010/820/24 (d) 0108/20/24
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: monkey, van, anchor, umpire. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MVAU (b) VAUM (c) UAVM (d) VMAU
- 35.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) IBGYORV (d) IVBGYOR
- 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in any order (c) in ABC order (d) in the same order
- 37.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is printed bigger
- 38.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
- 39.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) known (b) clear (c) right (d) true
- 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: ant, inkpot, doll, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) AIDM (b) MDIA (c) IDMA (d) IADM
Answer key
- 207 824 227
- ELPA
- chunking
- Jeeps Goats Ants
- 15/09/2020
- PAISA
- 8111 8176 9369
- Lions Very Ink
- knee
- clock
- 6
- a first-letter sentence
- False
- Pink Wet Cook
- a first-letter sentence
- what each letter means
- Sing Wise Green
- chain
- RSLF
- white
- 25/08/1965
- shell
- splitting into groups
- night
- Jolly Fly Bunny
- 4
- Every Cook Pink Cook
- True
- first letters as a word
- 339 618 718
- BFLKI
- Up Kites Dogs
- 01/08/2024
- MVAU
- VIBGYOR
- in the same order
- three chunks, not ten
- the rainbow colours
- true
- AIDM
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