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.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.🔤 “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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word does “knee” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) cake (d) clock
- 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 10.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔢 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) three (b) tea (c) key (d) rock
- 14.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a kind of pen (c) a long book (d) a memory trick
- 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) main (b) bun (c) bake (d) string
- 17.True or false: “main” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.🔤 “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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
- 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) one (c) bun (d) won
- 31.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) star (d) one
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bake (b) sing (c) tea (d) block
- 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.📝 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.📝 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.🔢 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.🔤 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.📅 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.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 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
- 4
- a silly, funny one
- Saturn
- Under
- tree
- RSLF
- Yaks
- stem
- splitting into groups
- False
- 23/01/1953
- 19 and 47
- rock
- a memory trick
- VIBGYOR
- string
- True
- an acronym
- 7
- 25/03/1997
- green
- an acronym
- initials match the list
- first letters as a word
- Eat Cook Pigs Cats
- three chunks, not ten
- Every Crazy Pink Cats
- in the same order
- SWG
- shock
- one
- sing
- white
- VOKBC
- JGFL
- 767 180 223
- MVEMJSUN
- 12/07/1983
- False
- 2061 5362 0399
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