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) in the same order (b) in ABC order (c) backwards (d) in any order
- 2.🎵 Which word does “smell” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) bell (c) rain (d) sun
- 3.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Arctic (c) Pacific (d) Indian
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umbrella, wallet, cat? (a) Wise Up Cats (b) Cats Wise Up (c) Wise Cats Up (d) Up Wise Cats
- 5.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 411107392901. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1110 7392 901 (b) 4111 0739 29901 (c) 4111 0739 2901 (d) 4111 0739 2910
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) kite (b) make (c) write (d) light
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Green Seven (b) Wet Seven Green (c) Green Wet Seven (d) Seven Wet Green
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: shoe, ladder, fan? (a) Funny Love Silly (b) Love Silly Funny (c) Silly Love Funny (d) Love Funny Silly
- 11.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a long story (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a picture
- 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) WGS (c) SWG (d) WSG
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jeep, whistle, anchor? (a) Aunty Wet Jolly (b) Jolly Wet Aunty (c) Wet Jolly Aunty (d) Wet Aunty Jolly
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: shoe, glass, banana? (a) Silly Grab Bunny (b) Grab Bunny Silly (c) Grab Silly Bunny (d) Bunny Grab Silly
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Sing Lazy Funny (b) Sing Lazy Funny Rani (c) Sing Rani Lazy Funny (d) Funny Lazy Sing Rani
- 16.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink Ants Ink ___ Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kind (b) Under (c) Tea (d) Seven
- 18.True or false: “shake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 300517225. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 305 172 25 (b) 300 517 2225 (c) 300 571 225 (d) 300 517 225
- 20.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they need no learning (c) they are longer (d) they always rhyme
- 21.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 22.📅 The digits 03012007 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 03/01/2007 (b) 03/0120/07 (c) 0301/20/07 (d) 030/120/07
- 23.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) egg (b) larva (c) adult (d) pupa
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wins Seven Eight Neat (b) Neat Eight Seven Wins (c) Eight Seven Wins Neat (d) Eight Neat Seven Wins
- 25.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) rain (d) cake
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kite, mirror, ice cream? (a) My Ink Kids (b) Ink My Kids (c) My Kids Ink (d) Kids My Ink
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shell (b) tell (c) swing (d) well
- 28.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, sock, rope? (a) Seven Dogs Runs (b) Seven Runs Dogs (c) Dogs Seven Runs (d) Runs Seven Dogs
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “___ Crazy Pigs Cook”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Dogs (c) Eat (d) Wise
- 31.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, apple, lemon? (a) Dad All Lazy (b) All Dad Lazy (c) Lazy All Dad (d) All Lazy Dad
- 33.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: inkpot, bucket, tiger, whistle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BITW (b) IBTW (c) BTWI (d) WTBI
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, tomato, inkpot? (a) Ink Toys Big (b) Toys Ink Big (c) Toys Big Ink (d) Big Toys Ink
- 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “Aunty ___ Nani Seven Aunty Every Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Uncle (c) Goats (d) Ants
- 37.📝 A list to learn, in order: spoon, banana, inkpot, fan, owl. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BIFOS (b) OFIBS (c) SBIFO (d) BSIFO
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Seven Wins Neat (b) Neat Eat Seven Wins (c) Wins Seven Eat Neat (d) Eat Neat Seven Wins
- 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) long (b) free (c) fast (d) cold
Answer key
- in the same order
- bell
- Arctic
- Up Wise Cats
- splitting into groups
- 4111 0739 2901
- 9
- make
- Seven Wet Green
- Silly Love Funny
- a list in a fixed order
- SWG
- Jolly Wet Aunty
- Silly Grab Bunny
- Rani Sing Lazy Funny
- False
- Seven
- True
- 300 517 225
- one word holds a list
- True
- 03/01/2007
- pupa
- Neat Eight Seven Wins
- sun
- Kids My Ink
- swing
- an acronym
- Dogs Seven Runs
- Eat
- an acronym
- Dad All Lazy
- 3
- IBTW
- Big Toys Ink
- Ants
- SBIFO
- a rhyme
- Neat Eat Seven Wins
- free
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