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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Seven ___ Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lions (b) Frogs (c) Green (d) Wise
- 2.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a picture (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a long story
- 3.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) white (b) green (c) saffron
- 4.True or false: “thing” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) saying it backwards (c) splitting into groups (d) writing it twice
- 6.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, goat, monkey, umpire. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NGMU (b) UMGN (c) GMUN (d) GNMU
- 7.True or false: “three” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) backwards (d) in the same order
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 7313501003. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 731 350 0103 (b) 733 501 003 (c) 731 350 1003 (d) 731 135 01003
- 10.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Nine Eat Sing Wins (b) Eat Nine Sing Wins (c) Eat Sing Wins Nine (d) Wins Sing Eat Nine
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for banana, mango, guava, tent is “___ Mice Goats Toys”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bunny (b) Grab (c) Dogs (d) Eat
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) ANSAEAA (c) AEASNAA (d) AANSAAE
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spell (b) swing (c) ring (d) sing
- 15.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) its spelling backwards (c) nothing else (d) its colour
- 16.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) they are longer (c) one word holds a list (d) they need no learning
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Green Wet Seven (b) Seven Wet Green (c) Wet Seven Green (d) Wet Green Seven
- 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) planet (c) one (d) world
- 19.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 19 and 47
- 20.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 6 (E) stand for? (a) Australia (b) Europe (c) Antarctica (d) Asia
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, whistle, ball? (a) Wise Dad Bakes (b) Bakes Wise Dad (c) Dad Wise Bakes (d) Wise Bakes Dad
- 23.🔢 You want to remember the number 485164075186. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4851 6407 75186 (b) 4851 6407 516 (c) 4851 6407 5186 (d) 4851 6405 7186
- 24.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) changes daily (c) is very long (d) means something to you
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: bucket, cat, watch? (a) Wet Crazy Big (b) Crazy Wet Big (c) Big Crazy Wet (d) Crazy Big Wet
- 26.🔢 You want to remember the number 245015061. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 245 015 061 (b) 245 501 5061 (c) 425 015 061 (d) 245 015 01
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Pink Cook Eat (b) Cook Pink Cats Eat (c) Eat Cook Pink Cats (d) Cook Eat Pink Cats
- 28.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 29.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 351952056023. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5195 2056 023 (b) 3519 5205 6023 (c) 3519 5025 6023 (d) 3511 9520 56023
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) sock (b) three (c) lake (d) tea
- 32.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a very long one (c) one with no picture (d) a silly, funny one
- 34.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 35.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it has fewer digits (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it is printed bigger
- 36.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Atlantic (c) Southern (d) Indian
- 37.🎵 Which word does “train” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) sun (c) bell (d) night
- 38.📝 A list to learn, in order: flute, shoe, needle, lamp, kettle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SFNLK (b) KLNSF (c) SNLKF (d) FSNLK
- 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 629004155042. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6290 0415 5042 (b) 6290 0415 0542 (c) 6290 0415 042 (d) 6229 0041 55042
- 40.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
Answer key
- Wise
- a list in a fixed order
- saffron
- True
- splitting into groups
- NGMU
- False
- in the same order
- 731 350 1003
- an acronym
- Nine Eat Sing Wins
- Bunny
- AANSAEA
- spell
- what each letter means
- one word holds a list
- Seven Wet Green
- one
- 19 and 47
- False
- Europe
- Dad Wise Bakes
- 4851 6407 5186
- means something to you
- Big Crazy Wet
- 245 015 061
- Eat Cook Pink Cats
- a rhyme
- the rainbow colours
- 3519 5205 6023
- sock
- True
- a silly, funny one
- a rhyme
- three chunks, not ten
- Arctic
- rain
- FSNLK
- 6290 0415 5042
- first letters as a word
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