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.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, cat, guava? (a) Cook Silly Goats (b) Cook Goats Silly (c) Silly Cook Goats (d) Goats Cook Silly
- 2.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 3 (L) stand for? (a) leaf (b) root (c) stem (d) flower
- 3.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, tiger, nest? (a) Toys Aunty Nani (b) Aunty Toys Nani (c) Nani Toys Aunty (d) Toys Nani Aunty
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) write (b) fight (c) kite (d) block
- 6.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 7.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) the list is short (c) there is no list (d) the letters make no word
- 8.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a times-table rhyme (b) date chunks (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) light (b) key (c) done (d) swing
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jump Fly Mum Aunty (b) Aunty Mum Fly Jump (c) Fly Jump Mum Aunty (d) Fly Mum Aunty Jump
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umpire, needle, candle? (a) Neat Up Cook (b) Neat Cook Up (c) Cook Neat Up (d) Up Neat Cook
- 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ENSW (b) NESW (c) WSEN (d) ESWN
- 13.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) night (b) tree (c) cake (d) clock
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) one (d) star
- 15.📅 The digits 26062007 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2606/20/07 (b) 26/0620/07 (c) 26/06/2007 (d) 260/620/07
- 16.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 17.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) king (c) night (d) cake
- 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “___ Ants Neat Silly Ants Every Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Vines (b) Lions (c) Mice (d) Aunty
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Seven Goats (b) Seven Wise Goats (c) Wise Goats Seven (d) Goats Wise Seven
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 8597120409. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 859 712 0409 (b) 859 771 20409 (c) 859 710 409 (d) 859 712 0490
- 21.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 2 (I) stand for? (a) orange (b) indigo (c) blue (d) violet
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 613160685283. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6131 6068 528 (b) 6131 6006 85283 (c) 1631 6068 5283 (d) 6131 6068 5283
- 23.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) nothing else (c) its spelling backwards (d) its colour
- 24.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) stem (b) root (c) flower (d) leaf
- 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: violin, mango, watch, inkpot, rope. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VMWIR (b) RIWMV (c) MWIRV (d) MVWIR
- 26.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) IVBGYOR (d) IBGYORV
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) make (c) bright (d) lake
- 28.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 29.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 19 and 47
- 30.🔢 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
- 31.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a kind of pen (b) a memory trick (c) a type of exam (d) a long book
- 32.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🎵 Which word does “key” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) clock (d) tree
- 34.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 35.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) FMAJ (c) FJMA (d) AMFJ
- 36.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) write (b) main (c) wing (d) bee
- 37.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 38.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “___ Wins Green”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wins (b) Play (c) Silly (d) Jolly
- 39.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 40.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 3 (M) stand for? (a) April (b) March (c) January (d) February
Answer key
- Silly Cook Goats
- leaf
- a rhyme
- Aunty Toys Nani
- block
- 5
- the letters make no word
- a first-letter sentence
- done
- Jump Fly Mum Aunty
- Up Neat Cook
- NESW
- night
- one
- 26/06/2007
- True
- king
- Aunty
- Seven Wise Goats
- 859 712 0409
- indigo
- 6131 6068 5283
- what each letter means
- stem
- VMWIR
- VIBGYOR
- bright
- first letters as a word
- 19 and 47
- three chunks, not ten
- a memory trick
- False
- tree
- 3
- JFMA
- bee
- 3
- Silly
- a rhyme
- March
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