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.📅 The digits 11081979 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1108/19/79 (b) 11/08/1979 (c) 11/0819/79 (d) 110/819/79
- 2.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) it is printed bigger (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it is a smaller number
- 3.🎵 Which word does “key” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) night (d) bell
- 4.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 5.True or false: “make” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “___ Silly Lions Fly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Goats (c) Only (d) Red
- 8.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 9.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a list of numbers (d) initials match the list
- 10.🔢 You want to remember the number 4438989190. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 443 899 190 (b) 443 898 89190 (c) 443 898 9190 (d) 448 398 9190
- 11.📅 The digits 20101986 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 201/019/86 (b) 20/1019/86 (c) 2010/19/86 (d) 20/10/1986
- 12.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 13.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a list in a fixed order (b) a long story (c) a maths sum (d) a picture
- 14.📝 A list to learn, in order: doll, whistle, tiger, pencil, ice cream. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) WTPID (b) WDTPI (c) IPTWD (d) DWTPI
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) WSG (c) WGS (d) GWS
- 16.True or false: “snake” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: violin, umbrella, key? (a) Uncle Very Kind (b) Very Uncle Kind (c) Uncle Kind Very (d) Kind Uncle Very
- 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tiger, key, jug, parrot, flute is “Tea Kind ___ Pink Fly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Jump (c) Fly (d) Nine
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Seven Green (b) Green Wins Seven (c) Wins Green Seven (d) Seven Wins Green
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 495221620. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 449 522 1620 (b) 452 216 20 (c) 492 521 620 (d) 495 221 620
- 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) string (b) kite (c) lake (d) white
- 22.True or false: “string” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: guava, pillow, inkpot? (a) Pink Ink Grab (b) Grab Pink Ink (c) Pink Grab Ink (d) Ink Pink Grab
- 25.True or false: “chain” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, bucket, urn? (a) Uncle Bakes Cook (b) Bakes Uncle Cook (c) Bakes Cook Uncle (d) Cook Bakes Uncle
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) string (b) shock (c) won (d) shell
- 28.📅 The digits 14081996 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 14/0819/96 (b) 140/819/96 (c) 14/08/1996 (d) 1408/19/96
- 29.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) sell (b) white (c) rock (d) rake
- 30.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) JFMA (c) FMAJ (d) AMFJ
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) sell (b) spring (c) knock (d) main
- 33.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) run (c) bun (d) won
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “___ Cook Pink Cats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Eight (c) Young (d) Owls
- 35.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: “tea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Neat Seven Wins (b) Eight Seven Wins Neat (c) Neat Eight Seven Wins (d) Wins Seven Eight Neat
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Runs Love Funny (b) Runs Silly Love Funny (c) Funny Love Silly Runs (d) Silly Love Funny Runs
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) free (b) chain (c) sea (d) key
- 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: onion, ball, apple, jeep. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JABO (b) OBAJ (c) BOAJ (d) BAJO
Answer key
- 11/08/1979
- three chunks, not ten
- tree
- first letters as a word
- True
- 3
- Red
- True
- initials match the list
- 443 898 9190
- 20/10/1986
- chunking
- a list in a fixed order
- DWTPI
- SWG
- False
- Very Uncle Kind
- Jump
- Seven Wins Green
- 495 221 620
- lake
- True
- a rhyme
- Grab Pink Ink
- False
- Cook Bakes Uncle
- shell
- 14/08/1996
- white
- False
- JFMA
- sell
- snake
- Eight
- False
- True
- Neat Eight Seven Wins
- Runs Silly Love Funny
- chain
- OBAJ
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