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.📝 A list to learn, in order: glass, pillow, jeep, cat, needle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GPJCN (b) PGJCN (c) PJCNG (d) NCJPG
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pigs Crazy Eat (b) Crazy Pigs Cook Eat (c) Eat Cook Pigs Crazy (d) Cook Eat Pigs Crazy
- 3.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, nest, bucket, drum. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NCBD (b) CNBD (c) NBDC (d) DBNC
- 4.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) a long story (c) an acronym (d) a mind map
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 572214932. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 572 214 932 (b) 572 214 392 (c) 577 221 4932 (d) 722 149 32
- 6.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) learn (b) know (c) write (d) say
- 7.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the oceans
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Play Cats Every (b) Every Cook Play Cats (c) Cook Every Play Cats (d) Cats Play Cook Every
- 9.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it has fewer digits (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it is printed bigger
- 10.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a times-table rhyme (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 11.📅 The digits 17021970 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 170/219/70 (b) 17/0219/70 (c) 17/02/1970 (d) 1702/19/70
- 12.🎵 Which word does “won” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) bell (c) sun (d) clock
- 13.True or false: “rock” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a picture (c) a long story (d) a list in a fixed order
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a very long one (c) a silly, funny one (d) a dull, plain one
- 16.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) nothing at all (c) an acronym word (d) a first-letter sentence
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Nani Silly Wise (b) Nani Eight Silly Wise (c) Wise Silly Eight Nani (d) Eight Silly Wise Nani
- 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) brain (b) white (c) one (d) bee
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violin, sock, parrot, net is “Very Seven Pigs ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nani (b) Silly (c) Grab (d) Eat
- 20.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) songs (c) tricks (d) steps
- 22.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) three (b) shake (c) run (d) smell
- 23.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: onion, rose, ant? (a) Only Runs All (b) Runs Only All (c) Runs All Only (d) All Runs Only
- 25.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 4 (F) stand for? (a) leaf (b) flower (c) root (d) stem
- 26.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) done (b) learnt (c) ended (d) over
- 27.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 158018151. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 150 818 151 (b) 158 018 8151 (c) 158 018 51 (d) 158 018 151
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knee (b) rake (c) sea (d) bee
- 30.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: “light” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) MVEMJSUN
- 33.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) AANSAAE (c) ANSAEAA (d) AEASNAA
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: net, radio, orange, jalebi. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) ROJN (b) NROJ (c) JORN (d) RNOJ
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 410932561991. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4109 3251 6991 (b) 4093 2561 991 (c) 4109 9325 61991 (d) 4109 3256 1991
- 36.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) condensation (c) precipitation (d) collection
- 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) again (b) fast (c) twice (d) more
- 38.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, ladder, kite, orange, igloo. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IOKLS (b) LSKOI (c) LKOIS (d) SLKOI
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
- 40.🔢 You want to remember the number 821112295. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 821 122 95 (b) 812 112 295 (c) 821 112 295 (d) 821 112 2295
Answer key
- GPJCN
- Eat Cook Pigs Crazy
- CNBD
- an acronym
- 572 214 932
- know
- the rainbow colours
- Every Cook Play Cats
- three chunks, not ten
- a first-letter sentence
- 17/02/1970
- sun
- False
- a list in a fixed order
- a silly, funny one
- a first-letter sentence
- Nani Eight Silly Wise
- one
- Nani
- an acronym
- tricks
- smell
- 6
- Only Runs All
- flower
- done
- False
- 158 018 151
- rake
- False
- True
- MVEMJSUN
- AANSAEA
- NROJ
- 4109 3256 1991
- precipitation
- more
- SLKOI
- in the same order
- 821 112 295
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