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.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) an acronym (b) a mind map (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 3.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 194 and 7
- 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for onion, ball, kettle, tomato, guava is “Owls ___ Kites Tiny Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Big (b) Funny (c) Cats (d) Kids
- 5.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) collection (b) evaporation (c) condensation (d) precipitation
- 6.📅 The digits 07062000 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0706/20/00 (b) 07/06/2000 (c) 070/620/00 (d) 07/0620/00
- 7.📅 The digits 21062005 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2106/20/05 (b) 210/620/05 (c) 21/0620/05 (d) 21/06/2005
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jolly Funny Mice ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Very (b) Cook (c) Owls (d) All
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jolly Funny My ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wet (b) Sing (c) Kids (d) All
- 10.📅 The digits 11011962 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 110/119/62 (b) 11/0119/62 (c) 1101/19/62 (d) 11/01/1962
- 11.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECCP (c) CEPC (d) ECPC
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ice cream, key, flute? (a) Fly Kites Inside (b) Kites Inside Fly (c) Kites Fly Inside (d) Inside Kites Fly
- 14.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) what each letter means (c) its colour (d) nothing else
- 16.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Africa (b) Asia (c) Australia (d) South America
- 17.📅 The digits 19051974 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 19/05/1974 (b) 190/519/74 (c) 19/0519/74 (d) 1905/19/74
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, guava, tent? (a) Green Jolly Tiny (b) Green Tiny Jolly (c) Jolly Green Tiny (d) Tiny Green Jolly
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nani Seven Wins (b) Every Seven Wins Nani (c) Wins Seven Every Nani (d) Nani Every Seven Wins
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 209229406136. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2092 2940 6136 (b) 0292 2940 6136 (c) 2022 9406 136 (d) 2092 2294 06136
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eat Cats Cats Pigs (b) Cats Eat Pigs Cats (c) Eat Cats Pigs Cats (d) Cats Pigs Cats Eat
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 431976470524. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4319 7647 054 (b) 4319 7647 05244 (c) 4391 7647 0524 (d) 4319 7647 0524
- 23.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 24.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 500241699135. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5002 4166 99135 (b) 5002 4169 9135 (c) 5002 4699 135 (d) 5002 4169 9315
- 26.📝 A list to learn, in order: bucket, kite, ant, owl. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KBAO (b) BKAO (c) OAKB (d) KAOB
- 27.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a rhyme about cats (c) initials match the list (d) a very long word
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “Ants Aunty ___ Sing Ants Every Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pigs (b) Only (c) Eat (d) Nani
- 29.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “___ Eat Seven Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wins (b) Nani (c) Red (d) Young
- 31.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) March (b) February (c) April (d) January
- 32.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) one word holds a list (c) they are longer (d) they always rhyme
- 33.📅 The digits 17052024 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 170/520/24 (b) 17/0520/24 (c) 1705/20/24 (d) 17/05/2024
- 34.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Pink Aunty Eat (b) Aunty Pink Lazy Eat (c) Lazy Eat Pink Aunty (d) Eat Lazy Pink Aunty
- 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) write (b) say (c) know (d) learn
- 38.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a times-table rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) date chunks (d) chunking
- 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 4130877950. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 413 087 9750 (b) 413 308 77950 (c) 413 087 950 (d) 413 087 7950
- 40.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) the letters make no word (c) there is no list (d) you like spelling
Answer key
- False
- a rhyme
- 19 and 47
- Big
- evaporation
- 07/06/2000
- 21/06/2005
- All
- All
- 11/01/1962
- first letters as a word
- ECPC
- Inside Kites Fly
- True
- what each letter means
- Australia
- 19/05/1974
- Jolly Green Tiny
- Nani Every Seven Wins
- 2092 2940 6136
- Eat Cats Pigs Cats
- 4319 7647 0524
- 7
- 5
- 5002 4169 9135
- BKAO
- initials match the list
- Nani
- chunking
- Nani
- January
- one word holds a list
- 17/05/2024
- False
- splitting into groups
- Eat Lazy Pink Aunty
- know
- a first-letter sentence
- 413 087 7950
- the letters make no word
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