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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 303 · 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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) backwards (c) in the same order (d) in any order
  2. 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. 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sea (b) well (c) three (d) knee
  4. 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. 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. 6.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  7. 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. 8.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  9. 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. 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. 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. 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) rock (b) knee (c) one (d) bun
  13. 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. 14.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) wake (b) sell (c) bake (d) done
  16. 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. 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. 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. 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. 20.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) night (c) king (d) tree
  21. 21.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a type of number (c) first letters as a word (d) a drawing
  22. 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. 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. 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. 25.True or false: “tell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
  26. 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. 27.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) clock (c) night (d) bell
  28. 28.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  29. 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. 30.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a type of exam (d) a memory trick
  31. 31.True or false: “plane” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) smell (b) rake (c) snake (d) bite
  34. 34.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
  35. 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. 36.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) cane (b) knock (c) well (d) sell
  37. 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. 38.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) king (b) cake (c) night (d) clock
  39. 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. 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

  1. in the same order
  2. PAISA
  3. well
  4. March
  5. NESW
  6. 5
  7. VPTA
  8. 2
  9. 5661 5905 3711
  10. green
  11. ELPA
  12. knee
  13. Frogs
  14. True
  15. sell
  16. Eat Love Pink All
  17. white
  18. leaf
  19. free
  20. king
  21. first letters as a word
  22. Jeeps Frogs Mum All
  23. one word holds a list
  24. a rhyme
  25. True
  26. chunking
  27. clock
  28. 5
  29. initials match the list
  30. a memory trick
  31. True
  32. False
  33. smell
  34. False
  35. JFMA
  36. cane
  37. three chunks, not ten
  38. night
  39. 8862 8052 2976
  40. more

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