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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 224 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 14.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the planets
  15. 15.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) smell (c) shell (d) wake
  16. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 22.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
  23. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 28.True or false: “run” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
  29. 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. 30.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
  31. 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. 32.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  33. 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. 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. 35.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
  36. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

  1. the letters make no word
  2. JDIL
  3. Neat Eight Sing Wise
  4. JKOLA
  5. Jeeps Funny Mice All
  6. PDGNK
  7. RSLF
  8. Red
  9. Cats
  10. Wise
  11. north
  12. Jump Frogs My All
  13. Eat Crazy Play Crazy
  14. the rainbow colours
  15. wake
  16. 09/03/1968
  17. RUATB
  18. OPCF
  19. 109 867 2836
  20. chunking
  21. Neptune
  22. False
  23. a list in a fixed order
  24. Eat Lions Play Aunty
  25. pupa
  26. Atlantic
  27. Funny
  28. True
  29. Aunty
  30. True
  31. Red Silly Lazy Fly
  32. 5
  33. Eight Crazy Pigs Cook
  34. Seven Wise Green
  35. splitting into groups
  36. MVEMJSUN
  37. Every Lions Play Aunty
  38. an acronym
  39. Nine Eat Seven Wise
  40. three chunks, not ten

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