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.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Grab Wet Seven (b) Wet Seven Grab (c) Seven Wet Grab (d) Wet Grab Seven
- 2.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: NESW for the four directions, clockwise? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pencil, tomato, shoe? (a) Silly Tiny Pigs (b) Tiny Pigs Silly (c) Pigs Tiny Silly (d) Tiny Silly Pigs
- 4.True or false: “one” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 5.📅 The digits 22051991 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2205/19/91 (b) 22/05/1991 (c) 220/519/91 (d) 22/0519/91
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 960656241. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 960 566 241 (b) 960 656 2441 (c) 960 662 41 (d) 960 656 241
- 7.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a silly, funny one (c) a dull, plain one (d) one with no picture
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 910223520168. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9102 2352 0168 (b) 9120 2352 0168 (c) 9102 2352 00168 (d) 9102 2352 018
- 10.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 19 and 47
- 11.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 1 (A) stand for? (a) North America (b) South America (c) Asia (d) Australia
- 12.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
- 13.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) only pictures (c) only numbers (d) nothing at all
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bake (b) snake (c) write (d) rake
- 15.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) changes daily (c) is very long (d) means something to you
- 16.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECPC (c) CEPC (d) ECCP
- 17.🔢 You want to remember the number 121224201. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 121 224 201 (b) 121 242 01 (c) 121 122 4201 (d) 121 222 401
- 18.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the oceans
- 19.📅 The digits 23061983 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 23/0619/83 (b) 23/06/1983 (c) 230/619/83 (d) 2306/19/83
- 20.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) right (c) true (d) known
- 21.🎵 Which word does “white” rhyme with? (a) king (b) sun (c) cake (d) night
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) AISAP (c) ASIAP (d) PAISA
- 23.🔢 You want to remember the number 764809307. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 766 480 9307 (b) 764 809 307 (c) 746 809 307 (d) 768 093 07
- 24.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) violet (b) indigo (c) orange (d) red
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for needle, onion, doll, vase is “Neat Only ___ Vans”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lazy (b) Dad (c) Bakes (d) Grab
- 26.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) north (b) south (c) east (d) west
- 27.True or false: “block” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 3 (S) stand for? (a) east (b) south (c) west (d) north
- 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FMAJ (c) FJMA (d) JFMA
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 466746384. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 466 743 684 (b) 466 746 3884 (c) 466 763 84 (d) 466 746 384
- 31.📅 The digits 14032006 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 140/320/06 (b) 14/03/2006 (c) 14/0320/06 (d) 1403/20/06
- 32.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
- 34.True or false: “light” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 35.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for orange, drum, jug, pencil, tomato is “Owls Dad Jump Pigs ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wise (b) Goats (c) Eat (d) Toys
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Seven Grab (b) Wins Grab Seven (c) Seven Wins Grab (d) Grab Wins Seven
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty Mum Frogs Jolly (b) Frogs Mum Aunty Jolly (c) Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty (d) Frogs Jolly Mum Aunty
- 38.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) fight (b) tea (c) shake (d) string
- 40.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) say it aloud often (b) never say it (c) change it each day (d) read it once silently
Answer key
- Seven Wet Grab
- an acronym
- Pigs Tiny Silly
- False
- 22/05/1991
- 960 656 241
- False
- a silly, funny one
- 9102 2352 0168
- 19 and 47
- Asia
- first letters as a word
- numbers and letter lists
- write
- means something to you
- ECPC
- 121 224 201
- the rainbow colours
- 23/06/1983
- true
- night
- PAISA
- 764 809 307
- orange
- Dad
- west
- True
- south
- JFMA
- 466 746 384
- 14/03/2006
- 7
- in the same order
- True
- Toys
- Seven Wins Grab
- Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty
- 2
- tea
- say it aloud often
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