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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 277 · 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 does “brain” rhyme with? (a) night (b) rain (c) king (d) clock
  2. 2.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) swing (c) plane (d) wing
  3. 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. 4.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) wake (b) shake (c) knock (d) fun
  5. 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. 6.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
  7. 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. 8.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  9. 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) free (b) main (c) chain (d) bake
  10. 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. 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. 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. 13.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) lock (b) one (c) sell (d) lane
  14. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 19.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) night (c) tree (d) sun
  20. 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. 21.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
  22. 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. 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. 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. 25.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  26. 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. 27.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
  29. 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. 30.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only numbers (d) only pictures
  31. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 37.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) splitting into groups (d) reading very fast
  38. 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. 39.🎵 Which word does “rake” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) clock (c) cake (d) rain
  40. 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

  1. rain
  2. plane
  3. 21/04/1969
  4. fun
  5. one word holds a list
  6. True
  7. AGLCJ
  8. 3
  9. bake
  10. a list in a fixed order
  11. All
  12. RATO
  13. sell
  14. MVEMJSUN
  15. 13/04/1976
  16. 199 516 4827
  17. Runs Sing Love Funny
  18. RSLF
  19. night
  20. what each letter means
  21. False
  22. sound patterns stick
  23. an acronym
  24. Red Silly Love Funny
  25. 9
  26. Neat Eight Seven Wise
  27. False
  28. first letters as a word
  29. January
  30. numbers and letter lists
  31. Crazy Goats Inside
  32. Silly Wet Green
  33. 19/07/1961
  34. a beat or a tune
  35. Under Cats Bakes
  36. 8125 5555 3826
  37. splitting into groups
  38. 3747 6444 5777
  39. cake
  40. 264 958 2491

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