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.🔢 A 15-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) train (b) cane (c) chain (d) done
- 4.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the months
- 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.🔤 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.📅 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in ABC order (c) backwards (d) in the same order
- 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.True or false: “write” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shake (b) wake (c) snake (d) light
- 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.🔢 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.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a maths sum (d) a long story
- 21.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.🧰 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.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Southern (c) Pacific (d) Indian
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) sell (b) knock (c) main (d) ton
- 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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
- 30.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a kind of pen (b) a long book (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
- 31.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
- 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.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 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.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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
- 5
- initials match the list
- done
- the rainbow colours
- an acronym
- ELPA
- 15/02/2021
- Jump Funny My Aunty
- Earth
- True
- 4072 7454 6026
- in the same order
- free
- False
- 6
- AANSAEA
- light
- Silly
- 882 919 6621
- a list in a fixed order
- 5
- Green Jolly Pink
- Red Seven Love Fly
- NKVT
- a rhyme
- Indian
- sell
- west
- splitting into groups
- a memory trick
- first letters as a word
- a rhyme
- True
- chunking
- True
- February
- MVEMJSUN
- Nine Every Seven Wins
- VIBGYOR
- Rani Silly Love Fly
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