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 is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a dull, plain one (c) one with no picture (d) a silly, funny one
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) SLFR (c) FLSR (d) SRLF
- 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: whistle, candle, banana? (a) Cats Wins Big (b) Wins Cats Big (c) Cats Big Wins (d) Big Cats Wins
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, pillow, jalebi? (a) Pink Jolly Bakes (b) Bakes Pink Jolly (c) Pink Bakes Jolly (d) Jolly Pink Bakes
- 6.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) condensation (c) collection (d) precipitation
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) in any order (c) in ABC order (d) backwards
- 8.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
- 9.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 3 (E) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Earth (c) Jupiter (d) Uranus
- 10.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) again (b) twice (c) more (d) fast
- 11.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it is printed bigger (c) it has fewer digits (d) three chunks, not ten
- 12.True or false: “shake” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) splitting into groups (d) reading very fast
- 14.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for monkey, net, cat, van, fan is “___ Neat Cats Vans Fly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Uncle (c) Vans (d) Mice
- 17.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) a mind map
- 18.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) only pictures (c) nothing at all (d) only numbers
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Rani ___ Lazy Fly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Big (b) Cook (c) Every (d) Seven
- 20.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) ring (b) bake (c) tell (d) light
- 21.📝 A list to learn, in order: spoon, violin, jalebi, ladder, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VSJLP (b) SVJLP (c) VJLPS (d) PLJVS
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Crazy Pigs Cats (b) Crazy Eight Pigs Cats (c) Crazy Pigs Cats Eight (d) Cats Pigs Crazy Eight
- 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 24.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Crazy Every (b) Cats Every Play Crazy (c) Crazy Play Cats Every (d) Every Cats Play Crazy
- 26.🔢 You want to remember the number 1733984713. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 173 398 4731 (b) 133 984 713 (c) 173 398 4713 (d) 173 398 47713
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) shake (b) string (c) main (d) thing
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 236541324. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 236 541 3324 (b) 326 541 324 (c) 236 541 324 (d) 365 413 24
- 29.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) white (b) knee (c) wake (d) light
- 30.📅 The digits 28121968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2812/19/68 (b) 28/1219/68 (c) 281/219/68 (d) 28/12/1968
- 31.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Southern (b) Atlantic (c) Indian (d) Pacific
- 32.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: jalebi, kettle, rope, nest, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KJRNF (b) FNRKJ (c) KRNFJ (d) JKRNF
- 34.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: tent, urn, mango? (a) Under Tea My (b) My Under Tea (c) Tea Under My (d) Under My Tea
- 36.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) clock (c) sun (d) rain
- 37.🎵 Which word does “one” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) cake (d) sun
- 38.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) ended (b) learnt (c) over (d) done
- 39.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) true (c) known (d) clear
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) JFMA (c) FMAJ (d) FJMA
Answer key
- a silly, funny one
- RSLF
- first letters as a word
- Wins Cats Big
- Bakes Pink Jolly
- precipitation
- in the same order
- the letters make no word
- Earth
- more
- three chunks, not ten
- False
- splitting into groups
- True
- a rhyme
- Mice
- a rhyme
- numbers and letter lists
- Seven
- tell
- SVJLP
- Eight Crazy Pigs Cats
- an acronym
- chunking
- Every Cats Play Crazy
- 173 398 4713
- main
- 236 541 324
- knee
- 28/12/1968
- Pacific
- True
- JKRNF
- a rhyme
- Tea Under My
- cake
- sun
- done
- true
- JFMA
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