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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 305 · 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.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, doll, tent? (a) Dogs Tea Neat (b) Tea Dogs Neat (c) Dogs Neat Tea (d) Neat Dogs Tea
  2. 2.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they need no learning
  3. 3.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Australia (b) South America (c) Africa (d) Asia
  4. 4.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 194 and 7 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 19 and 47
  5. 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) IBGYORV (d) VIBGYOR
  6. 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mice ___ Eat My Jeeps Seven Under Neat”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Vans (c) Tea (d) Old
  7. 7.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  8. 8.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym word (c) nothing at all (d) chunking
  9. 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Play Ants Eat (b) Lions Eat Play Ants (c) Eat Lions Play Ants (d) Ants Play Lions Eat
  10. 10.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 7 (U) stand for? (a) Uranus (b) Earth (c) Mars (d) Venus
  11. 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Frogs My Ants (b) Ants My Frogs Jolly (c) Frogs Jolly My Ants (d) Frogs My Ants Jolly
  12. 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) one with no picture (c) a very long one (d) a silly, funny one
  13. 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wise Silly Eat Nine (b) Eat Silly Wise Nine (c) Eat Nine Silly Wise (d) Nine Eat Silly Wise
  14. 14.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) no rhythm at all (b) writing it tiny (c) a beat or a tune (d) saying it once quietly
  15. 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, key, whistle? (a) All Kids Wise (b) Wise Kids All (c) Kids Wise All (d) Kids All Wise
  16. 16.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) twice (b) fast (c) more (d) again
  17. 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for frog, coconut, guava, shoe is “Fly ___ Green Sing”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Love (b) Inside (c) Jump (d) Crazy
  18. 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) say (c) learn (d) write
  19. 19.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) February (d) January
  20. 20.True or false: “shell” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) sell (b) wake (c) one (d) light
  22. 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Pink Ants Every (b) Every Lazy Pink Ants (c) Ants Pink Lazy Every (d) Lazy Every Pink Ants
  23. 23.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  24. 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jeeps Fly Mice Ants (b) Ants Mice Fly Jeeps (c) Fly Jeeps Mice Ants (d) Fly Mice Ants Jeeps
  25. 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, umbrella, needle, ant, tiger. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SUNAT (b) UNATS (c) TANUS (d) USNAT
  26. 26.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) indigo
  27. 27.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) numbers and letter lists (d) only pictures
  28. 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Cats Eat (b) Eat Cats Play Cats (c) Cats Eat Play Cats (d) Eat Cats Cats Play
  29. 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: whistle, duck, monkey, shoe, bucket. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DMSBW (b) DWMSB (c) WDMSB (d) BSMDW
  30. 30.True or false: “well” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: doll, shoe, whistle? (a) Wise Sing Dad (b) Dad Sing Wise (c) Sing Dad Wise (d) Sing Wise Dad
  33. 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: drum, monkey, ball, wallet, umpire. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UWBMD (b) MDBWU (c) MBWUD (d) DMBWU
  34. 34.📅 The digits 14021986 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1402/19/86 (b) 14/02/1986 (c) 14/0219/86 (d) 140/219/86
  35. 35.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Love Pink All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Toys (b) Inside (c) Nani (d) Eight
  36. 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pillow, tomato, fan? (a) Tea Pink Fly (b) Fly Tea Pink (c) Pink Tea Fly (d) Tea Fly Pink
  37. 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jump Fly Mice Ants (b) Ants Mice Fly Jump (c) Fly Mice Ants Jump (d) Fly Jump Mice Ants
  38. 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) run (b) sing (c) thing (d) swing
  39. 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) cane (b) plane (c) train (d) sell
  40. 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: anchor, urn, tiger, shoe. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UATS (b) UTSA (c) AUTS (d) STUA

Answer key

  1. Neat Dogs Tea
  2. one word holds a list
  3. Africa
  4. 19 and 47
  5. VIBGYOR
  6. Vans
  7. orange
  8. a first-letter sentence
  9. Eat Lions Play Ants
  10. Uranus
  11. Jolly Frogs My Ants
  12. a silly, funny one
  13. Nine Eat Silly Wise
  14. a beat or a tune
  15. All Kids Wise
  16. more
  17. Crazy
  18. know
  19. February
  20. False
  21. wake
  22. Every Lazy Pink Ants
  23. 6
  24. Jeeps Fly Mice Ants
  25. SUNAT
  26. green
  27. numbers and letter lists
  28. Eat Cats Play Cats
  29. WDMSB
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Dad Sing Wise
  33. DMBWU
  34. 14/02/1986
  35. Eight
  36. Pink Tea Fly
  37. Jump Fly Mice Ants
  38. run
  39. sell
  40. AUTS

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