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 must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) backwards (c) in the same order (d) in any order
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) ASIAP (c) AISAP (d) PAISA
- 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sea (b) well (c) three (d) knee
- 4.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 3 (M) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) February (d) January
- 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ENSW (b) WSEN (c) ESWN (d) NESW
- 6.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 7.📝 A list to learn, in order: vase, pillow, tent, apple. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PTAV (b) ATPV (c) VPTA (d) PVTA
- 8.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 566159053711. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5616 5905 3711 (b) 5661 5905 711 (c) 5661 5900 53711 (d) 5661 5905 3711
- 10.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) saffron (b) green (c) white
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LEPA (b) ELPA (c) APLE (d) LPAE
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) rock (b) knee (c) one (d) bun
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jolly ___ Mum All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yum (b) Dance (c) Frogs (d) Goats
- 14.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) wake (b) sell (c) bake (d) done
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Love Eat (b) Love Eat Pink All (c) Love Pink All Eat (d) Eat Love Pink All
- 17.🔤 “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
- 18.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 3 (L) stand for? (a) root (b) leaf (c) stem (d) flower
- 19.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) fast (b) free (c) long (d) cold
- 20.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) night (c) king (d) tree
- 21.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a type of number (c) first letters as a word (d) a drawing
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jeeps Frogs Mum All (b) Frogs Mum All Jeeps (c) All Mum Frogs Jeeps (d) Frogs Jeeps Mum All
- 23.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they need no learning (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
- 24.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 25.True or false: “tell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
- 27.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) clock (c) night (d) bell
- 28.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 29.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) initials match the list (c) a list of numbers (d) a rhyme about cats
- 30.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a type of exam (d) a memory trick
- 31.True or false: “plane” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) smell (b) rake (c) snake (d) bite
- 34.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) AMFJ (c) JFMA (d) FMAJ
- 36.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) cane (b) knock (c) well (d) sell
- 37.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is printed bigger (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is a smaller number
- 38.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) king (b) cake (c) night (d) clock
- 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 886280522976. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8868 0522 976 (b) 8862 8052 2796 (c) 8862 8052 29976 (d) 8862 8052 2976
- 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) twice (c) again (d) more
Answer key
- in the same order
- PAISA
- well
- March
- NESW
- 5
- VPTA
- 2
- 5661 5905 3711
- green
- ELPA
- knee
- Frogs
- True
- sell
- Eat Love Pink All
- white
- leaf
- free
- king
- first letters as a word
- Jeeps Frogs Mum All
- one word holds a list
- a rhyme
- True
- chunking
- clock
- 5
- initials match the list
- a memory trick
- True
- False
- smell
- False
- JFMA
- cane
- three chunks, not ten
- night
- 8862 8052 2976
- more
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