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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 157 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
  2. 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. 3.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a memory trick (c) a kind of pen (d) a type of exam
  4. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 14.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
  15. 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. 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. 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. 18.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
  19. 19.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) king (c) sun (d) night
  20. 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. 21.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) only pictures (d) numbers and letter lists
  22. 22.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) night (b) sun (c) clock (d) cake
  23. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 32.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) night (c) cake (d) tree
  33. 33.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) bell (d) night
  34. 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. 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. 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. 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. 38.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
  39. 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. 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

  1. splitting into groups
  2. Dad Aunty Jump
  3. a memory trick
  4. Jupiter
  5. green
  6. the letters make no word
  7. Only
  8. TKAN
  9. VIBGYOR
  10. an acronym
  11. 1474 9522 2151
  12. 20/08/1989
  13. Mercury
  14. the rainbow colours
  15. condensation
  16. violet
  17. evaporation
  18. first letters as a word
  19. night
  20. Eight Cook Play Cats
  21. numbers and letter lists
  22. cake
  23. GNKFD
  24. 11/02/2021
  25. JFMA
  26. Nani Eat Silly Wise
  27. Red Sing Lazy Funny
  28. true
  29. yellow
  30. Seven Wet Green
  31. Every Lions Pink Aunty
  32. night
  33. rain
  34. Eat Love Pink Ants
  35. three chunks, not ten
  36. a silly, funny one
  37. Lazy Only Aunty
  38. False
  39. a first-letter sentence
  40. initials match the list

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