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.True or false: “main” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 3.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) changes daily (b) is very long (c) means something to you (d) has no pattern
- 4.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knee (b) one (c) run (d) done
- 6.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Europe (b) Africa (c) Antarctica (d) Australia
- 7.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) VEMJSUNM (c) NUSJMEVM (d) VMEMJSUN
- 8.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) write (b) know (c) say (d) learn
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) well (b) sell (c) shell (d) main
- 10.📅 The digits 26032003 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 260/320/03 (b) 2603/20/03 (c) 26/0320/03 (d) 26/03/2003
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) FJMA
- 12.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) one word holds a list (c) they always rhyme (d) they need no learning
- 13.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) saying it backwards (d) reading very fast
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Silly Goats (b) Silly Wins Goats (c) Wins Goats Silly (d) Goats Wins Silly
- 15.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 6 (E) stand for? (a) Australia (b) South America (c) Asia (d) Europe
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, fan, duck? (a) Funny Kind Dad (b) Dad Funny Kind (c) Funny Dad Kind (d) Kind Funny Dad
- 18.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a list of numbers (c) a very long word (d) a rhyme about cats
- 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 144821822387. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1448 2182 2387 (b) 1448 2118 22387 (c) 1448 2182 3287 (d) 4482 1822 387
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rope, glass, umbrella? (a) Green Under Runs (b) Green Runs Under (c) Runs Green Under (d) Under Green Runs
- 21.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, mango, guava, ant, flute. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MGAFB (b) FAGMB (c) MBGAF (d) BMGAF
- 22.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Red Silly Lazy ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Funny (c) Ink (d) Kids
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Lions Play All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nani (b) Eat (c) Under (d) Cook
- 24.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a times-table rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) date chunks
- 25.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 26.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: flute, parrot, onion? (a) Play Funny Only (b) Play Only Funny (c) Funny Play Only (d) Only Play Funny
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tomato, ladder, parrot, radio is “Tiny Love Play ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nine (b) Red (c) Every (d) Green
- 29.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) first letters as a word (d) a type of number
- 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: pencil, mango, tent, candle, whistle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MPTCW (b) MTCWP (c) PMTCW (d) WCTMP
- 31.🎵 Which word does “knee” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) clock (c) night (d) tree
- 32.📅 The digits 07021964 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 07/0219/64 (b) 0702/19/64 (c) 07/02/1964 (d) 070/219/64
- 33.True or false: “free” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) planet (c) one (d) world
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 142265292934. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1422 6529 2943 (b) 1422 6529 2934 (c) 1422 6529 294 (d) 1422 6652 92934
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shell (b) done (c) sell (d) well
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Sing Wet Green (b) Green Wet Sing (c) Wet Green Sing (d) Wet Sing Green
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, drum, key? (a) Dad Cook Kids (b) Kids Dad Cook (c) Dad Kids Cook (d) Cook Dad Kids
- 39.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Europe (b) Africa (c) South America (d) Australia
- 40.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) pupa (b) adult (c) egg (d) larva
Answer key
- False
- 5
- means something to you
- 2
- knee
- Australia
- MVEMJSUN
- know
- main
- 26/03/2003
- JFMA
- one word holds a list
- splitting into groups
- Silly Wins Goats
- True
- Europe
- Kind Funny Dad
- initials match the list
- 1448 2182 2387
- Runs Green Under
- BMGAF
- Funny
- Eat
- a first-letter sentence
- 8
- False
- Funny Play Only
- Red
- first letters as a word
- PMTCW
- tree
- 07/02/1964
- False
- one
- 1422 6529 2934
- done
- Sing Wet Green
- Cook Dad Kids
- South America
- egg
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