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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.🔤 “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.🔢 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🎵 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.✏️ 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.🎵 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) say (c) learn (d) write
- 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.True or false: “shell” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) sell (b) wake (c) one (d) light
- 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.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.📝 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.🔤 “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.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) numbers and letter lists (d) only pictures
- 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.📝 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.True or false: “well” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.📅 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) run (b) sing (c) thing (d) swing
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) cane (b) plane (c) train (d) sell
- 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
- Neat Dogs Tea
- one word holds a list
- Africa
- 19 and 47
- VIBGYOR
- Vans
- orange
- a first-letter sentence
- Eat Lions Play Ants
- Uranus
- Jolly Frogs My Ants
- a silly, funny one
- Nine Eat Silly Wise
- a beat or a tune
- All Kids Wise
- more
- Crazy
- know
- February
- False
- wake
- Every Lazy Pink Ants
- 6
- Jeeps Fly Mice Ants
- SUNAT
- green
- numbers and letter lists
- Eat Cats Play Cats
- WDMSB
- False
- False
- Dad Sing Wise
- DMBWU
- 14/02/1986
- Eight
- Pink Tea Fly
- Jump Fly Mice Ants
- run
- sell
- AUTS
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