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.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) indigo (b) red (c) green (d) orange
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) APLE (b) ELPA (c) LPAE (d) LEPA
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for needle, van, kite, owl, tomato is “Nine Vines Kids Only ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tea (b) Fly (c) Very (d) Young
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Seven Love Funny Red (b) Red Seven Love Funny (c) Funny Love Seven Red (d) Seven Red Love Funny
- 5.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a picture (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a maths sum
- 6.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) its spelling backwards (c) nothing else (d) its colour
- 7.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) rain (c) night (d) king
- 8.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) writing it twice
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 758773822. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 578 773 822 (b) 758 738 22 (c) 758 777 3822 (d) 758 773 822
- 10.🎵 Which word does “three” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) rain (c) tree (d) cake
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, watch, ladder? (a) Wins Lions Dance (b) Lions Wins Dance (c) Wins Dance Lions (d) Dance Wins Lions
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Lazy Fly Rani (b) Rani Sing Lazy Fly (c) Sing Rani Lazy Fly (d) Fly Lazy Sing Rani
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: orange, needle, lemon, parrot, ice cream. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) ONLPI (b) NLPIO (c) NOLPI (d) IPLNO
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 7979964160. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 797 996 64160 (b) 797 996 410 (c) 779 996 4160 (d) 797 996 4160
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 16.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) January (b) March (c) February (d) April
- 17.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) star (c) planet (d) world
- 18.🎵 Which word does “spring” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) king (d) clock
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: wallet, rope, kite? (a) Runs Kites Wins (b) Wins Runs Kites (c) Runs Wins Kites (d) Kites Runs Wins
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: urn, whistle, ball? (a) Bakes Wins Under (b) Under Wins Bakes (c) Wins Bakes Under (d) Wins Under Bakes
- 21.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) you like spelling (c) there is no list (d) the list is short
- 22.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) a mind map (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a long story
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for goat, bucket, pillow, doll is “Green ___ Pink Dance”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tea (b) Up (c) Big (d) Nine
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: net, glass, mirror? (a) Mice Goats Nani (b) Goats Mice Nani (c) Goats Nani Mice (d) Nani Goats Mice
- 25.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) known (c) clear (d) true
- 26.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Red ___ Love Frogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dad (b) All (c) Sing (d) Funny
- 27.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) night (b) sun (c) bell (d) tree
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 643336766498. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4633 3676 6498 (b) 6433 3666 498 (c) 6433 3676 66498 (d) 6433 3676 6498
- 29.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they need no learning (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
- 30.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) NESW (c) ENSW (d) ESWN
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) well (b) thing (c) bright (d) make
- 32.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) again (c) twice (d) more
- 33.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Southern (c) Indian (d) Pacific
- 34.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
- 35.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for inkpot, jalebi, flute, umpire is “___ Jump Funny Uncle”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kind (b) Inside (c) Pink (d) Up
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) FLSR (b) RSLF (c) SRLF (d) SLFR
- 38.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) CPCE (c) ECCP (d) ECPC
- 40.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
Answer key
- orange
- ELPA
- Tea
- Red Seven Love Funny
- a list in a fixed order
- what each letter means
- night
- splitting into groups
- 758 773 822
- tree
- Dance Wins Lions
- Rani Sing Lazy Fly
- ONLPI
- 797 996 4160
- 6
- February
- one
- king
- Wins Runs Kites
- Under Wins Bakes
- the letters make no word
- an acronym
- Big
- Nani Goats Mice
- true
- Sing
- night
- 6433 3676 6498
- one word holds a list
- NESW
- thing
- more
- Arctic
- initials match the list
- 2
- Inside
- RSLF
- False
- ECPC
- the rainbow colours
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