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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 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.📅 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.📅 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.True or false: “chain” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 8.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 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.✏️ 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.📅 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.✏️ 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.🧰 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.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) night (d) cake
- 15.True or false: “train” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 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.✏️ 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.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 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.📅 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.🔤 “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.📅 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.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
- 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) one (b) rock (c) bite (d) fight
- 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.🔤 “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.📅 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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bite (b) lake (c) ring (d) wing
- 36.True or false: “wing” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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
- first letters as a word
- 694 043 854
- 07/05/2003
- 07/07/1955
- Dance Nani Kites
- what each letter means
- True
- True
- green
- Goats Kids Inside
- 15/06/1989
- Ants
- a first-letter sentence
- night
- False
- CWBJN
- Seven Wise Grab
- 5
- three chunks, not ten
- False
- Ants Funny Wise
- 24/04/1962
- precipitation
- 28/11/1985
- the rainbow colours
- a rhyme
- one
- 19 and 47
- Runs Seven Lazy Fly
- MVEMJSUN
- Australia
- 05/09/2017
- splitting into groups
- an acronym
- lake
- False
- Kites
- Jump
- Nani Eight Silly Wet
- PAISA
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