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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 246 · 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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
  2. 2.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) its spelling backwards (c) nothing else (d) its colour
  3. 3.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 9 4 7 (b) 1 and 947 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 194 and 7
  4. 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, bucket, pillow, vase, guava is “___ Big Play Vans Green”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Sing (b) Pink (c) Up (d) Mice
  5. 5.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) spring (b) smell (c) free (d) main
  6. 6.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a picture (c) a long story (d) a list in a fixed order
  7. 7.🔢 You want to remember the number 1675600793. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 175 600 793 (b) 167 560 0793 (c) 167 560 0739 (d) 166 756 00793
  8. 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 3511173253. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 351 111 73253 (b) 351 117 3253 (c) 351 173 253 (d) 351 117 2353
  9. 9.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
  11. 11.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a times-table rhyme (b) chunking (c) date chunks (d) a first-letter sentence
  12. 12.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: inkpot, watch, key? (a) Inside Wins Kites (b) Wins Kites Inside (c) Kites Wins Inside (d) Wins Inside Kites
  14. 14.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) numbers and letter lists (d) only pictures
  15. 15.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Eight ___ Play Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Crazy (b) Kites (c) Wet (d) Lions
  16. 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Red Lazy Funny (b) Red Sing Lazy Funny (c) Sing Lazy Funny Red (d) Funny Lazy Sing Red
  17. 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pink Cook Eight (b) Eight Cook Cook Pink (c) Eight Cook Pink Cook (d) Cook Eight Pink Cook
  18. 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) ECCP (c) CPCE (d) ECPC
  19. 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: igloo, umpire, rope? (a) Ink Uncle Rani (b) Uncle Rani Ink (c) Uncle Ink Rani (d) Rani Uncle Ink
  20. 20.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a drawing (d) a long poem
  21. 21.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
  22. 22.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) collection (b) condensation (c) precipitation (d) evaporation
  23. 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for nest, jeep, flute, wallet is “___ Jolly Fly Wet”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dance (b) Nani (c) Jolly (d) Crazy
  24. 24.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) white (b) green (c) saffron
  25. 25.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) saying it backwards (d) reading very fast
  26. 26.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) sock (b) sell (c) sea (d) free
  28. 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: igloo, kite, monkey, net. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KMNI (b) NMKI (c) KIMN (d) IKMN
  29. 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, ant, parrot? (a) Ants Dogs Pigs (b) Ants Pigs Dogs (c) Pigs Ants Dogs (d) Dogs Ants Pigs
  30. 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 9487919190. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 948 919 190 (b) 948 791 9109 (c) 948 791 9190 (d) 948 791 91900
  31. 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 169480425. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 169 480 4425 (b) 169 480 425 (c) 169 480 25 (d) 169 840 425
  32. 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 3409694261. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 340 969 4261 (b) 340 964 9261 (c) 340 969 42661 (d) 349 694 261
  33. 33.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) ENSW (c) NESW (d) WSEN
  34. 34.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  35. 35.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Southern (b) Atlantic (c) Pacific (d) Indian
  36. 36.📅 The digits 05081990 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/08/1990 (b) 050/819/90 (c) 05/0819/90 (d) 0508/19/90
  37. 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
  38. 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ball, inkpot, jug? (a) Ink Jolly Bakes (b) Jolly Ink Bakes (c) Bakes Ink Jolly (d) Ink Bakes Jolly
  39. 39.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) means something to you (c) has no pattern (d) changes daily

Answer key

  1. in the same order
  2. what each letter means
  3. 19 and 47
  4. Mice
  5. spring
  6. a list in a fixed order
  7. 167 560 0793
  8. 351 117 3253
  9. False
  10. the rainbow colours
  11. a first-letter sentence
  12. False
  13. Inside Wins Kites
  14. numbers and letter lists
  15. Lions
  16. Red Sing Lazy Funny
  17. Eight Cook Pink Cook
  18. ECPC
  19. Ink Uncle Rani
  20. first letters as a word
  21. a rhyme
  22. condensation
  23. Nani
  24. saffron
  25. splitting into groups
  26. True
  27. sock
  28. IKMN
  29. Dogs Ants Pigs
  30. 948 791 9190
  31. 169 480 425
  32. 340 969 4261
  33. NESW
  34. 5
  35. Southern
  36. 05/08/1990
  37. a first-letter sentence
  38. Bakes Ink Jolly
  39. True
  40. means something to you

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