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 word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) night (b) rain (c) king (d) clock
- 2.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) swing (c) plane (d) wing
- 3.📅 The digits 21041969 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 210/419/69 (b) 21/04/1969 (c) 2104/19/69 (d) 21/0419/69
- 4.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) wake (b) shake (c) knock (d) fun
- 5.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) they need no learning (c) they are longer (d) one word holds a list
- 6.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 7.📝 A list to learn, in order: anchor, goat, lemon, cat, jug. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GLCJA (b) AGLCJ (c) GALCJ (d) JCLGA
- 8.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) free (b) main (c) chain (d) bake
- 10.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a maths sum (c) a picture (d) a list in a fixed order
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for pencil, anchor, kite, bucket is “Play ___ Kites Bakes”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Neat (b) All (c) Grab (d) Jump
- 12.📝 A list to learn, in order: radio, apple, tent, onion. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) ATOR (b) OTAR (c) RATO (d) ARTO
- 13.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) lock (b) one (c) sell (d) lane
- 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) VEMJSUNM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) NUSJMEVM
- 15.📅 The digits 13041976 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 13/0419/76 (b) 13/04/1976 (c) 130/419/76 (d) 1304/19/76
- 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 1995164827. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 199 516 4287 (b) 199 516 427 (c) 199 511 64827 (d) 199 516 4827
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Runs Love Funny (b) Funny Love Sing Runs (c) Sing Love Funny Runs (d) Runs Sing Love Funny
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SLFR (b) FLSR (c) RSLF (d) SRLF
- 19.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) night (c) tree (d) sun
- 20.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 21.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) they are always true (c) sound patterns stick (d) they are longer
- 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Love Funny Red (b) Red Silly Love Funny (c) Silly Red Love Funny (d) Funny Love Silly Red
- 25.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wise Seven Eight Neat (b) Eight Neat Seven Wise (c) Eight Seven Wise Neat (d) Neat Eight Seven Wise
- 27.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 29.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) February (d) January
- 30.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only numbers (d) only pictures
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: coconut, guava, igloo? (a) Crazy Goats Inside (b) Inside Goats Crazy (c) Goats Inside Crazy (d) Goats Crazy Inside
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Green Wet Silly (b) Wet Green Silly (c) Silly Wet Green (d) Wet Silly Green
- 33.📅 The digits 19071961 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 190/719/61 (b) 1907/19/61 (c) 19/0719/61 (d) 19/07/1961
- 34.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) no rhythm at all (b) a beat or a tune (c) writing it tiny (d) saying it once quietly
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umbrella, coconut, ball? (a) Cats Bakes Under (b) Bakes Cats Under (c) Cats Under Bakes (d) Under Cats Bakes
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 812555553826. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8125 5553 5826 (b) 8125 5553 826 (c) 8125 5555 53826 (d) 8125 5555 3826
- 37.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) splitting into groups (d) reading very fast
- 38.🔢 You want to remember the number 374764445777. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7347 6444 5777 (b) 3747 6444 5777 (c) 3747 7644 45777 (d) 3747 6444 577
- 39.🎵 Which word does “rake” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) clock (c) cake (d) rain
- 40.🔢 You want to remember the number 2649582491. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 269 582 491 (b) 264 958 24991 (c) 264 958 2491 (d) 269 458 2491
Answer key
- rain
- plane
- 21/04/1969
- fun
- one word holds a list
- True
- AGLCJ
- 3
- bake
- a list in a fixed order
- All
- RATO
- sell
- MVEMJSUN
- 13/04/1976
- 199 516 4827
- Runs Sing Love Funny
- RSLF
- night
- what each letter means
- False
- sound patterns stick
- an acronym
- Red Silly Love Funny
- 9
- Neat Eight Seven Wise
- False
- first letters as a word
- January
- numbers and letter lists
- Crazy Goats Inside
- Silly Wet Green
- 19/07/1961
- a beat or a tune
- Under Cats Bakes
- 8125 5555 3826
- splitting into groups
- 3747 6444 5777
- cake
- 264 958 2491
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