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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 291 · 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.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  2. 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a very long one (c) a silly, funny one (d) one with no picture
  3. 3.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 6 (S) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Venus (c) Jupiter (d) Neptune
  4. 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mum Very Every My Jolly Seven ___ Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Green (c) Dance (d) Under
  5. 5.🎵 Which word does “knee” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) cake (d) clock
  6. 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) FLSR (c) SRLF (d) SLFR
  7. 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Very Inside Bakes Grab ___ Owls Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Frogs (c) Vans (d) Kind
  8. 8.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) leaf (b) flower (c) root (d) stem
  9. 9.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
  10. 10.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📅 The digits 23011953 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 23/0119/53 (b) 23/01/1953 (c) 2301/19/53 (d) 230/119/53
  12. 12.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 1 and 947
  13. 13.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) three (b) tea (c) key (d) rock
  14. 14.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a kind of pen (c) a long book (d) a memory trick
  15. 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IBGYORV (b) ROYGBIV (c) IVBGYOR (d) VIBGYOR
  16. 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) main (b) bun (c) bake (d) string
  17. 17.True or false: “main” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) an acronym (b) a mind map (c) chunking (d) a long story
  19. 19.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  20. 20.📅 The digits 25031997 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 250/319/97 (b) 2503/19/97 (c) 25/0319/97 (d) 25/03/1997
  21. 21.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) green (b) white (c) saffron
  22. 22.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
  23. 23.✏️ 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
  24. 24.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
  25. 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pigs Cats Eat (b) Eat Cook Pigs Cats (c) Cook Eat Pigs Cats (d) Cats Pigs Cook Eat
  26. 26.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is printed bigger (b) it is a smaller number (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it has fewer digits
  27. 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Pink Crazy Every (b) Crazy Every Pink Cats (c) Crazy Pink Cats Every (d) Every Crazy Pink Cats
  28. 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
  29. 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) WSG (c) SWG (d) GWS
  30. 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) one (c) bun (d) won
  31. 31.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) star (d) one
  32. 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bake (b) sing (c) tea (d) block
  33. 33.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) saffron (b) green (c) white
  34. 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: violin, orange, kettle, bucket, candle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OVKBC (b) OKBCV (c) VOKBC (d) CBKOV
  35. 35.📝 A list to learn, in order: jalebi, guava, flute, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GJFL (b) LFGJ (c) GFLJ (d) JGFL
  36. 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 767180223. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 767 180 0223 (b) 767 108 223 (c) 767 180 223 (d) 771 802 23
  37. 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
  38. 38.📅 The digits 12071983 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1207/19/83 (b) 12/07/1983 (c) 12/0719/83 (d) 120/719/83
  39. 39.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 You want to remember the number 206153620399. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2061 5362 0399 (b) 2016 5362 0399 (c) 2015 3620 399 (d) 2061 5366 20399

Answer key

  1. 4
  2. a silly, funny one
  3. Saturn
  4. Under
  5. tree
  6. RSLF
  7. Yaks
  8. stem
  9. splitting into groups
  10. False
  11. 23/01/1953
  12. 19 and 47
  13. rock
  14. a memory trick
  15. VIBGYOR
  16. string
  17. True
  18. an acronym
  19. 7
  20. 25/03/1997
  21. green
  22. an acronym
  23. initials match the list
  24. first letters as a word
  25. Eat Cook Pigs Cats
  26. three chunks, not ten
  27. Every Crazy Pink Cats
  28. in the same order
  29. SWG
  30. shock
  31. one
  32. sing
  33. white
  34. VOKBC
  35. JGFL
  36. 767 180 223
  37. MVEMJSUN
  38. 12/07/1983
  39. False
  40. 2061 5362 0399

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