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 word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) knock (c) main (d) lock
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FMAJ (c) FJMA (d) JFMA
- 3.📅 The digits 27021989 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2702/19/89 (b) 27/02/1989 (c) 270/219/89 (d) 27/0219/89
- 4.📝 A list to learn, in order: glass, banana, rose, inkpot, vase. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BRIVG (b) GBRIV (c) BGRIV (d) VIRBG
- 5.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) adult (b) larva (c) pupa (d) egg
- 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Sing ___ Grab”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Seven (b) Cats (c) Wins (d) Lazy
- 7.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) star (d) one
- 8.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SRLF (b) RSLF (c) FLSR (d) SLFR
- 10.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) ASIAP (b) PAISA (c) AISAP (d) APISA
- 11.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) changes daily (b) has no pattern (c) means something to you (d) is very long
- 12.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 8 (N) stand for? (a) Venus (b) Saturn (c) Jupiter (d) Neptune
- 13.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a rhyme about cats (c) initials match the list (d) a list of numbers
- 14.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 2 (L) stand for? (a) adult (b) pupa (c) egg (d) larva
- 15.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) its colour (c) its spelling backwards (d) nothing else
- 16.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) WSG (c) WGS (d) SWG
- 17.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 250216646. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 252 166 46 (b) 250 261 646 (c) 250 021 6646 (d) 250 216 646
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: duck, watch, rose? (a) Wet Dogs Red (b) Wet Red Dogs (c) Dogs Wet Red (d) Red Wet Dogs
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Ants Mum Funny Jolly (b) Funny Mum Ants Jolly (c) Funny Jolly Mum Ants (d) Jolly Funny Mum Ants
- 21.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 22.📅 The digits 18081997 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 180/819/97 (b) 1808/19/97 (c) 18/08/1997 (d) 18/0819/97
- 23.🎵 Which word does “free” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) night (d) rain
- 24.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Nine Eat ___ Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Silly (c) Bakes (d) Kids
- 25.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lane (b) brain (c) block (d) train
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: onion, ice cream, fan? (a) Inside Funny Owls (b) Funny Inside Owls (c) Owls Inside Funny (d) Inside Owls Funny
- 28.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Southern (c) Atlantic (d) Arctic
- 29.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) light (b) write (c) kite (d) sea
- 31.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the oceans
- 34.📅 The digits 19021983 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 190/219/83 (b) 19/0219/83 (c) 1902/19/83 (d) 19/02/1983
- 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) done (b) knock (c) won (d) ton
- 36.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) steps (c) tricks (d) songs
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Sing Wet Neat (b) Neat Eat Sing Wet (c) Wet Sing Eat Neat (d) Eat Neat Sing Wet
- 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) smell (b) white (c) fight (d) light
- 39.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Australia (b) Antarctica (c) Africa (d) Asia
- 40.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a maths sum (d) a picture
Answer key
- main
- JFMA
- 27/02/1989
- GBRIV
- egg
- Wins
- one
- 8
- RSLF
- PAISA
- means something to you
- Neptune
- initials match the list
- larva
- what each letter means
- SWG
- splitting into groups
- 250 216 646
- Dogs Wet Red
- Jolly Funny Mum Ants
- False
- 18/08/1997
- tree
- Silly
- True
- block
- Owls Inside Funny
- Southern
- a rhyme
- sea
- False
- False
- the rainbow colours
- 19/02/1983
- knock
- tricks
- Neat Eat Sing Wet
- smell
- Australia
- a list in a fixed order
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