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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
- 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) spring (b) smell (c) free (d) main
- 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.🔢 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.🔢 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.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
- 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.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 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.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) numbers and letter lists (d) only pictures
- 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a drawing (d) a long poem
- 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.🔤 “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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) saying it backwards (d) reading very fast
- 26.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) sock (b) sell (c) sea (d) free
- 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.✏️ 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.🔢 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.🔢 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.🔢 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.🔤 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.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.📅 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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 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
- in the same order
- what each letter means
- 19 and 47
- Mice
- spring
- a list in a fixed order
- 167 560 0793
- 351 117 3253
- False
- the rainbow colours
- a first-letter sentence
- False
- Inside Wins Kites
- numbers and letter lists
- Lions
- Red Sing Lazy Funny
- Eight Cook Pink Cook
- ECPC
- Ink Uncle Rani
- first letters as a word
- a rhyme
- condensation
- Nani
- saffron
- splitting into groups
- True
- sock
- IKMN
- Dogs Ants Pigs
- 948 791 9190
- 169 480 425
- 340 969 4261
- NESW
- 5
- Southern
- 05/08/1990
- a first-letter sentence
- Bakes Ink Jolly
- True
- means something to you
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