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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: doll, apple, jeep? (a) Dad Aunty Jump (b) Aunty Dad Jump (c) Aunty Jump Dad (d) Jump Aunty Dad
- 3.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a memory trick (c) a kind of pen (d) a type of exam
- 4.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 5 (J) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Mercury (c) Uranus (d) Jupiter
- 5.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
- 6.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) the letters make no word (c) you like spelling (d) the list is short
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vines Inside Bunny Green Yaks ___ Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) All (b) Mice (c) Only (d) Love
- 8.📝 A list to learn, in order: tomato, kite, anchor, needle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NAKT (b) KTAN (c) TKAN (d) KANT
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IBGYORV (c) VIBGYOR (d) IVBGYOR
- 10.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 147495222151. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1474 9522 21511 (b) 1474 9522 2511 (c) 1474 9522 2151 (d) 1474 9522 251
- 12.📅 The digits 20081989 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 200/819/89 (b) 20/08/1989 (c) 2008/19/89 (d) 20/0819/89
- 13.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 1 (M) stand for? (a) Venus (b) Uranus (c) Earth (d) Mercury
- 14.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
- 15.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) collection (b) condensation (c) evaporation (d) precipitation
- 16.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 1 (V) stand for? (a) violet (b) yellow (c) orange (d) indigo
- 17.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) condensation (b) collection (c) precipitation (d) evaporation
- 18.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
- 19.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) king (c) sun (d) night
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Cook Eight (b) Cook Play Cats Eight (c) Cook Eight Play Cats (d) Eight Cook Play Cats
- 21.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) only pictures (d) numbers and letter lists
- 22.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) night (b) sun (c) clock (d) cake
- 23.📝 A list to learn, in order: glass, nest, kettle, frog, drum. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NKFDG (b) GNKFD (c) NGKFD (d) DFKNG
- 24.📅 The digits 11022021 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 110/220/21 (b) 11/0220/21 (c) 11/02/2021 (d) 1102/20/21
- 25.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Nani Eat Silly Wise (b) Eat Nani Silly Wise (c) Wise Silly Eat Nani (d) Eat Silly Wise Nani
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Lazy Funny Red (b) Red Sing Lazy Funny (c) Funny Lazy Sing Red (d) Sing Red Lazy Funny
- 28.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) known (b) clear (c) true (d) right
- 29.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 5 (Y) stand for? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Green Seven (b) Seven Wet Green (c) Wet Seven Green (d) Green Wet Seven
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Pink Aunty Every (b) Every Lions Pink Aunty (c) Aunty Pink Lions Every (d) Lions Every Pink Aunty
- 32.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) night (c) cake (d) tree
- 33.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) bell (d) night
- 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Pink Ants Eat (b) Love Eat Pink Ants (c) Eat Love Pink Ants (d) Ants Pink Love Eat
- 35.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is printed bigger (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is a smaller number
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a very long one (c) a dull, plain one (d) one with no picture
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ladder, orange, anchor? (a) Only Lazy Aunty (b) Lazy Only Aunty (c) Aunty Only Lazy (d) Only Aunty Lazy
- 38.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a times-table rhyme (c) date chunks (d) chunking
- 40.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a rhyme about cats (c) initials match the list (d) a list of numbers
Answer key
- splitting into groups
- Dad Aunty Jump
- a memory trick
- Jupiter
- green
- the letters make no word
- Only
- TKAN
- VIBGYOR
- an acronym
- 1474 9522 2151
- 20/08/1989
- Mercury
- the rainbow colours
- condensation
- violet
- evaporation
- first letters as a word
- night
- Eight Cook Play Cats
- numbers and letter lists
- cake
- GNKFD
- 11/02/2021
- JFMA
- Nani Eat Silly Wise
- Red Sing Lazy Funny
- true
- yellow
- Seven Wet Green
- Every Lions Pink Aunty
- night
- rain
- Eat Love Pink Ants
- three chunks, not ten
- a silly, funny one
- Lazy Only Aunty
- False
- a first-letter sentence
- initials match the list
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