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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 28 · 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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
  2. 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 694043854. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 690 438 54 (b) 964 043 854 (c) 694 044 3854 (d) 694 043 854
  3. 3.📅 The digits 07052003 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 07/0520/03 (b) 07/05/2003 (c) 0705/20/03 (d) 070/520/03
  4. 4.📅 The digits 07071955 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0707/19/55 (b) 070/719/55 (c) 07/0719/55 (d) 07/07/1955
  5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: doll, needle, kettle? (a) Kites Nani Dance (b) Nani Dance Kites (c) Dance Nani Kites (d) Nani Kites Dance
  6. 6.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its colour (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
  7. 7.True or false: “chain” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) green (b) saffron (c) white
  10. 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: goat, kettle, ice cream? (a) Inside Kids Goats (b) Kids Goats Inside (c) Goats Kids Inside (d) Kids Inside Goats
  11. 11.📅 The digits 15061989 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 15/0619/89 (b) 1506/19/89 (c) 15/06/1989 (d) 150/619/89
  12. 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Play All Inside Seven ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ants (b) Runs (c) Kites (d) Eat
  13. 13.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a times-table rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
  14. 14.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) night (d) cake
  15. 15.True or false: “train” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: candle, wallet, bucket, jeep, needle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) WCBJN (b) NJBWC (c) CWBJN (d) WBJNC
  17. 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Grab Wise Seven (b) Seven Wise Grab (c) Wise Seven Grab (d) Wise Grab Seven
  18. 18.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  19. 19.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is printed bigger (c) it is a smaller number (d) it has fewer digits
  20. 20.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, flute, wallet? (a) Funny Ants Wise (b) Funny Wise Ants (c) Wise Funny Ants (d) Ants Funny Wise
  22. 22.📅 The digits 24041962 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2404/19/62 (b) 240/419/62 (c) 24/0419/62 (d) 24/04/1962
  23. 23.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) condensation (b) collection (c) precipitation (d) evaporation
  24. 24.📅 The digits 28111985 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2811/19/85 (b) 28/11/1985 (c) 281/119/85 (d) 28/1119/85
  25. 25.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
  26. 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
  27. 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) one (b) rock (c) bite (d) fight
  28. 28.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 9 4 7 (b) 1 and 947 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 19 and 47
  29. 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Seven Runs Lazy Fly (b) Runs Seven Lazy Fly (c) Fly Lazy Seven Runs (d) Seven Lazy Fly Runs
  30. 30.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) MVEMJSUN (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
  31. 31.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) South America (b) Australia (c) Africa (d) Asia
  32. 32.📅 The digits 05092017 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0509/20/17 (b) 05/0920/17 (c) 050/920/17 (d) 05/09/2017
  33. 33.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
  34. 34.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a mind map (d) a long story
  35. 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bite (b) lake (c) ring (d) wing
  36. 36.True or false: “wing” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tiger, jeep, anchor, key, lamp is “Toys Jeeps Aunty ___ Lazy”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Rani (b) Kites (c) Lazy (d) Fly
  38. 38.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “___ Funny My Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jump (b) Uncle (c) Seven (d) Eight
  39. 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wet Silly Eight Nani (b) Eight Nani Silly Wet (c) Eight Silly Wet Nani (d) Nani Eight Silly Wet
  40. 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) PAISA (c) ASIAP (d) APISA

Answer key

  1. first letters as a word
  2. 694 043 854
  3. 07/05/2003
  4. 07/07/1955
  5. Dance Nani Kites
  6. what each letter means
  7. True
  8. True
  9. green
  10. Goats Kids Inside
  11. 15/06/1989
  12. Ants
  13. a first-letter sentence
  14. night
  15. False
  16. CWBJN
  17. Seven Wise Grab
  18. 5
  19. three chunks, not ten
  20. False
  21. Ants Funny Wise
  22. 24/04/1962
  23. precipitation
  24. 28/11/1985
  25. the rainbow colours
  26. a rhyme
  27. one
  28. 19 and 47
  29. Runs Seven Lazy Fly
  30. MVEMJSUN
  31. Australia
  32. 05/09/2017
  33. splitting into groups
  34. an acronym
  35. lake
  36. False
  37. Kites
  38. Jump
  39. Nani Eight Silly Wet
  40. PAISA

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