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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 253 · 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) spring (b) shake (c) string (d) won
  2. 2.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ice cream, ant, monkey, drum is “___ All Mum Dogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Neat (b) Ice (c) Love (d) Aunty
  3. 3.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 194 and 7
  4. 4.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAAE (d) AEASNAA
  5. 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for banana, parrot, guava, duck is “Big Pink ___ Dance”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Grab (b) Tiny (c) Dogs (d) Cook
  6. 6.📅 The digits 11091985 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 11/0919/85 (b) 1109/19/85 (c) 11/09/1985 (d) 110/919/85
  7. 7.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) a mind map (d) an acronym
  8. 8.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a very long word (c) a list of numbers (d) a rhyme about cats
  9. 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) cane (b) lane (c) make (d) train
  10. 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) sea (b) fun (c) white (d) train
  11. 11.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, kite, bucket? (a) Jeeps Kind Bakes (b) Kind Bakes Jeeps (c) Bakes Kind Jeeps (d) Kind Jeeps Bakes
  13. 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for apple, sock, coconut, tiger is “___ Seven Cats Tea”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Rani (b) Cats (c) All (d) Jump
  14. 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 675603755. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 675 063 755 (b) 675 560 3755 (c) 675 603 755 (d) 675 603 75
  15. 15.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
  16. 16.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Indian (b) Atlantic (c) Pacific (d) Arctic
  17. 17.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Southern (b) Indian (c) Pacific (d) Arctic
  18. 18.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) nothing at all (b) an acronym word (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
  19. 19.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) they need no learning (c) they are longer (d) one word holds a list
  20. 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: key, onion, rope? (a) Red Old Kites (b) Kites Old Red (c) Old Kites Red (d) Old Red Kites
  21. 21.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
  23. 23.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) free (b) light (c) bright (d) kite
  24. 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: drum, coconut, frog, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CFMD (b) MFCD (c) CDFM (d) DCFM
  25. 25.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ESWN (c) NESW (d) ENSW
  26. 26.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) block (b) sock (c) lock (d) knee
  27. 27.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) ended (b) learnt (c) over (d) done
  28. 28.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) GWS (c) WSG (d) WGS
  29. 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, apple, cat, ladder. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) AWCL (b) LCAW (c) ACLW (d) WACL
  30. 30.📅 The digits 10021955 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1002/19/55 (b) 100/219/55 (c) 10/0219/55 (d) 10/02/1955
  31. 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) train (b) make (c) bee (d) spring
  32. 32.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) bell (d) king
  33. 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, pencil, mirror, fan, anchor. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PBMFA (b) AFMPB (c) PMFAB (d) BPMFA
  34. 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Eight Cats Pigs ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Frogs (c) Crazy (d) Sing
  35. 35.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a long story (c) a picture (d) a list in a fixed order
  36. 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mice Vines ___ Mice Jeeps Seven Up Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kids (b) Tiny (c) Every (d) Crazy
  37. 37.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  38. 38.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  39. 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) IVBGYOR (d) ROYGBIV
  40. 40.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Asia (b) Europe (c) Australia (d) Antarctica

Answer key

  1. won
  2. Ice
  3. 19 and 47
  4. AANSAEA
  5. Grab
  6. 11/09/1985
  7. chunking
  8. initials match the list
  9. make
  10. sea
  11. True
  12. Jeeps Kind Bakes
  13. All
  14. 675 603 755
  15. the rainbow colours
  16. Atlantic
  17. Indian
  18. a first-letter sentence
  19. one word holds a list
  20. Kites Old Red
  21. False
  22. first letters as a word
  23. free
  24. DCFM
  25. NESW
  26. knee
  27. done
  28. SWG
  29. WACL
  30. 10/02/1955
  31. spring
  32. sun
  33. BPMFA
  34. Crazy
  35. a list in a fixed order
  36. Every
  37. 7
  38. 8
  39. VIBGYOR
  40. Australia

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