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.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) January (d) February
- 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 3214401012. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 321 440 1012 (b) 321 440 10122 (c) 321 441 012 (d) 321 440 1021
- 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) CEPC (c) ECPC (d) ECCP
- 4.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
- 5.📅 The digits 04081966 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 040/819/66 (b) 04/0819/66 (c) 04/08/1966 (d) 0408/19/66
- 6.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a maths sum (d) a long story
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Sing Wise Neat (b) Neat Every Sing Wise (c) Every Neat Sing Wise (d) Wise Sing Every Neat
- 8.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 9.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) fast (c) long (d) free
- 10.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for wallet, vase, radio, anchor is “___ Vans Rani All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Play (b) Tea (c) Inside (d) Wet
- 12.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a times-table rhyme
- 13.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) known (b) right (c) true (d) clear
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) FMAJ (c) AMFJ (d) FJMA
- 16.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) west (b) south (c) north (d) east
- 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spell (b) smell (c) shell (d) thing
- 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in any order (c) in the same order (d) in ABC order
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs My Ants Jolly (b) Frogs Jolly My Ants (c) Ants My Frogs Jolly (d) Jolly Frogs My Ants
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Seven Grab (b) Grab Wet Seven (c) Wet Grab Seven (d) Seven Wet Grab
- 21.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 22.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: whistle, cat, needle? (a) Wise Cook Nine (b) Nine Cook Wise (c) Cook Nine Wise (d) Cook Wise Nine
- 24.True or false: “shock” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wing (b) sing (c) string (d) lock
- 26.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 19 and 47 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 1 9 4 7
- 27.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) clock (c) rain (d) sun
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 418080264587. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4180 8022 64587 (b) 4180 8026 4587 (c) 4180 8026 4857 (d) 4108 0264 587
- 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) VIBGYOR (d) IBGYORV
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Funny Lazy Sing Rani (b) Sing Lazy Funny Rani (c) Rani Sing Lazy Funny (d) Sing Rani Lazy Funny
- 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for fan, umbrella, wallet, anchor is “Frogs ___ Wins Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Dad (c) Under (d) Vines
- 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 4317227174. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 431 722 71744 (b) 431 727 174 (c) 341 722 7174 (d) 431 722 7174
- 33.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) saying it once quietly (b) a beat or a tune (c) writing it tiny (d) no rhythm at all
- 34.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) one (b) sock (c) kite (d) bake
- 35.📝 A list to learn, in order: kite, cat, igloo, umpire, tiger. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) TUICK (b) KCIUT (c) CKIUT (d) CIUTK
- 36.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a very long word (c) initials match the list (d) a rhyme about cats
- 37.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Australia (b) South America (c) Antarctica (d) Europe
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, sock, pencil? (a) Silly Play Cats (b) Silly Cats Play (c) Play Silly Cats (d) Cats Silly Play
- 39.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) means something to you (c) changes daily (d) has no pattern
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: apple, onion, pencil? (a) Old Pink Ants (b) Pink Old Ants (c) Old Ants Pink (d) Ants Old Pink
Answer key
- January
- 321 440 1012
- ECPC
- the letters make no word
- 04/08/1966
- a list in a fixed order
- Neat Every Sing Wise
- what each letter means
- free
- False
- Wet
- a first-letter sentence
- 5
- true
- JFMA
- west
- thing
- in the same order
- Jolly Frogs My Ants
- Seven Wet Grab
- an acronym
- True
- Wise Cook Nine
- True
- lock
- 19 and 47
- sun
- 4180 8026 4587
- VIBGYOR
- Rani Sing Lazy Funny
- Under
- 431 722 7174
- a beat or a tune
- kite
- KCIUT
- initials match the list
- South America
- Cats Silly Play
- means something to you
- Ants Old Pink
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