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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 308 · 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.🔢 A 15-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  2. 2.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a very long word (c) initials match the list (d) a list of numbers
  3. 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) train (b) cane (c) chain (d) done
  4. 4.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the months
  5. 5.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a long story (d) a mind map
  6. 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) APLE (c) LEPA (d) ELPA
  7. 7.📅 The digits 15022021 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 150/220/21 (b) 15/0220/21 (c) 1502/20/21 (d) 15/02/2021
  8. 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Jump My Aunty (b) Jump Funny My Aunty (c) Funny My Aunty Jump (d) Aunty My Funny Jump
  9. 9.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 3 (E) stand for? (a) Mercury (b) Earth (c) Uranus (d) Mars
  10. 10.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 407274546026. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4077 4546 026 (b) 4072 7456 4026 (c) 4072 7454 6026 (d) 4072 7454 60226
  12. 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in ABC order (c) backwards (d) in the same order
  13. 13.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) long (b) fast (c) free (d) cold
  14. 14.True or false: “write” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  16. 16.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) AEASNAA (c) AANSAAE (d) ANSAEAA
  17. 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shake (b) wake (c) snake (d) light
  18. 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “___ Wins Green”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Jump (c) Up (d) Silly
  19. 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 8829196621. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 882 919 6621 (b) 882 916 9621 (c) 882 916 621 (d) 882 991 96621
  20. 20.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a maths sum (d) a long story
  21. 21.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  22. 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: guava, jalebi, parrot? (a) Green Jolly Pink (b) Pink Jolly Green (c) Jolly Pink Green (d) Jolly Green Pink
  23. 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Fly Love Seven Red (b) Seven Red Love Fly (c) Red Seven Love Fly (d) Seven Love Fly Red
  24. 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, kite, violin, tomato. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KNVT (b) TVKN (c) NKVT (d) KVTN
  25. 25.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
  26. 26.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Southern (c) Pacific (d) Indian
  27. 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) sell (b) knock (c) main (d) ton
  28. 28.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) south (b) west (c) east (d) north
  29. 29.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
  30. 30.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a kind of pen (b) a long book (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
  31. 31.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
  32. 32.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
  33. 33.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
  35. 35.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) February (b) January (c) April (d) March
  37. 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) VEMJSUNM (c) NUSJMEVM (d) MVEMJSUN
  38. 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nine Seven Wins (b) Nine Every Seven Wins (c) Every Seven Wins Nine (d) Wins Seven Every Nine
  39. 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) ROYGBIV (d) VIBGYOR
  40. 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Silly Love Fly (b) Fly Love Silly Rani (c) Silly Love Fly Rani (d) Silly Rani Love Fly

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. initials match the list
  3. done
  4. the rainbow colours
  5. an acronym
  6. ELPA
  7. 15/02/2021
  8. Jump Funny My Aunty
  9. Earth
  10. True
  11. 4072 7454 6026
  12. in the same order
  13. free
  14. False
  15. 6
  16. AANSAEA
  17. light
  18. Silly
  19. 882 919 6621
  20. a list in a fixed order
  21. 5
  22. Green Jolly Pink
  23. Red Seven Love Fly
  24. NKVT
  25. a rhyme
  26. Indian
  27. sell
  28. west
  29. splitting into groups
  30. a memory trick
  31. first letters as a word
  32. a rhyme
  33. True
  34. chunking
  35. True
  36. February
  37. MVEMJSUN
  38. Nine Every Seven Wins
  39. VIBGYOR
  40. Rani Silly Love Fly

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