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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
- 2.📅 The digits 03111961 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 03/11/1961 (b) 031/119/61 (c) 0311/19/61 (d) 03/1119/61
- 3.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 4.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 7.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) done (b) sea (c) thing (d) snake
- 8.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 9.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) ended (c) done (d) over
- 10.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 3 (M) stand for? (a) February (b) April (c) January (d) March
- 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) ASIAP (b) PAISA (c) APISA (d) AISAP
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) one with no picture (c) a silly, funny one (d) a dull, plain one
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bright (b) white (c) light (d) train
- 15.📝 A list to learn, in order: owl, shoe, ladder, whistle, kite. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SLWKO (b) KWLSO (c) OSLWK (d) SOLWK
- 16.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) lock (c) ring (d) shock
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for shoe, tent, banana, anchor, umbrella is “___ Tea Bunny Ants Under”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yum (b) Vans (c) Seven (d) Lazy
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 332161125. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 332 161 125 (b) 332 161 1125 (c) 332 161 12 (d) 332 161 152
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) steps (c) tricks (d) songs
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 207739949711. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2077 3994 9711 (b) 2077 3994 97711 (c) 2073 7994 9711 (d) 2077 3949 711
- 23.True or false: “cane” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty (b) Frogs Mum Aunty Jolly (c) Aunty Mum Frogs Jolly (d) Frogs Jolly Mum Aunty
- 25.🎵 Which word does “snake” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) clock (c) cake (d) night
- 26.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) right (c) true (d) known
- 27.True or false: “key” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Grab Silly (b) Silly Wise Grab (c) Wise Silly Grab (d) Grab Wise Silly
- 29.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) read it once silently (b) change it each day (c) say it aloud often (d) never say it
- 30.📅 The digits 12012025 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 120/120/25 (b) 1201/20/25 (c) 12/0120/25 (d) 12/01/2025
- 31.📝 A list to learn, in order: guava, umpire, inkpot, van. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GUIV (b) UIVG (c) UGIV (d) VIUG
- 32.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a times-table rhyme (b) date chunks (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for cat, jug, doll, rope is “Cats ___ Dogs Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kind (b) Only (c) Jeeps (d) Up
- 34.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 36.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🎵 Which word does “free” rhyme with? (a) night (b) tree (c) clock (d) cake
- 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bite (b) string (c) fight (d) bright
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Play Aunty Eight (b) Lions Eight Play Aunty (c) Aunty Play Lions Eight (d) Eight Lions Play Aunty
- 40.🔢 You want to remember the number 9231643129. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 923 116 43129 (b) 931 643 129 (c) 921 364 3129 (d) 923 164 3129
Answer key
- in the same order
- 03/11/1961
- 5
- False
- False
- 6
- snake
- first letters as a word
- done
- False
- March
- PAISA
- a silly, funny one
- train
- OSLWK
- True
- False
- ring
- Seven
- 332 161 125
- tricks
- 2077 3994 9711
- False
- Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty
- cake
- true
- True
- Silly Wise Grab
- say it aloud often
- 12/01/2025
- GUIV
- a first-letter sentence
- Jeeps
- True
- splitting into groups
- True
- tree
- string
- Eight Lions Play Aunty
- 923 164 3129
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