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.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) you like spelling (c) the list is short (d) there is no list
- 2.📝 A list to learn, in order: jalebi, doll, ice cream, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DJIL (b) JDIL (c) LIDJ (d) DILJ
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Neat Sing Wise (b) Neat Eight Sing Wise (c) Eight Sing Wise Neat (d) Wise Sing Eight Neat
- 4.📝 A list to learn, in order: jalebi, kite, owl, ladder, apple. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KJOLA (b) JKOLA (c) KOLAJ (d) ALOKJ
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) All Mice Funny Jeeps (b) Funny Mice All Jeeps (c) Funny Jeeps Mice All (d) Jeeps Funny Mice All
- 6.📝 A list to learn, in order: parrot, duck, guava, net, key. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KNGDP (b) DPGNK (c) PDGNK (d) DGNKP
- 7.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) SRLF (c) FLSR (d) SLFR
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “___ Sing Love Frogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bakes (b) Red (c) Crazy (d) Mum
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for shoe, ball, owl, coconut, pencil is “Seven Big Only ___ Pink”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Neat (b) Kind (c) Cats (d) Ink
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Sing ___ Grab”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Young (b) Tea (c) Wise (d) Frogs
- 11.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 1 (N) stand for? (a) east (b) north (c) west (d) south
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs My All Jump (b) Jump Frogs My All (c) Frogs Jump My All (d) All My Frogs Jump
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Eat Play Crazy (b) Crazy Play Crazy Eat (c) Eat Crazy Crazy Play (d) Eat Crazy Play Crazy
- 14.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the planets
- 15.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) smell (c) shell (d) wake
- 16.📅 The digits 09031968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 090/319/68 (b) 0903/19/68 (c) 09/0319/68 (d) 09/03/1968
- 17.📝 A list to learn, in order: radio, umbrella, anchor, tent, ball. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BTAUR (b) RUATB (c) URATB (d) UATBR
- 18.📝 A list to learn, in order: orange, pencil, cat, frog. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OPCF (b) POCF (c) PCFO (d) FCPO
- 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 1098672836. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 109 862 836 (b) 109 876 2836 (c) 109 867 72836 (d) 109 867 2836
- 20.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 21.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 8 (N) stand for? (a) Earth (b) Venus (c) Jupiter (d) Neptune
- 22.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a list in a fixed order (b) a maths sum (c) a long story (d) a picture
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Play Aunty Eat (b) Lions Eat Play Aunty (c) Eat Lions Play Aunty (d) Aunty Play Lions Eat
- 25.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) egg (b) larva (c) adult (d) pupa
- 26.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Pacific (c) Atlantic (d) Indian
- 27.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jolly ___ Mum Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Funny (c) Grab (d) Under
- 28.True or false: “run” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 29.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink All Ice Seven ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) Very (c) Sing (d) Cook
- 30.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Red Silly Lazy Fly (b) Silly Lazy Fly Red (c) Silly Red Lazy Fly (d) Fly Lazy Silly Red
- 32.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pigs Cook Eight (b) Eight Crazy Pigs Cook (c) Crazy Eight Pigs Cook (d) Cook Pigs Crazy Eight
- 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Seven Wise Green (b) Green Wise Seven (c) Wise Green Seven (d) Wise Seven Green
- 35.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
- 36.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) MVEMJSUN (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Every Play Aunty (b) Every Lions Play Aunty (c) Lions Play Aunty Every (d) Aunty Play Lions Every
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wise Seven Eat Nine (b) Eat Seven Wise Nine (c) Nine Eat Seven Wise (d) Eat Nine Seven Wise
- 40.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is printed bigger (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is a smaller number
Answer key
- the letters make no word
- JDIL
- Neat Eight Sing Wise
- JKOLA
- Jeeps Funny Mice All
- PDGNK
- RSLF
- Red
- Cats
- Wise
- north
- Jump Frogs My All
- Eat Crazy Play Crazy
- the rainbow colours
- wake
- 09/03/1968
- RUATB
- OPCF
- 109 867 2836
- chunking
- Neptune
- False
- a list in a fixed order
- Eat Lions Play Aunty
- pupa
- Atlantic
- Funny
- True
- Aunty
- True
- Red Silly Lazy Fly
- 5
- Eight Crazy Pigs Cook
- Seven Wise Green
- splitting into groups
- MVEMJSUN
- Every Lions Play Aunty
- an acronym
- Nine Eat Seven Wise
- three chunks, not ten
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