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.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) a times-table rhyme (c) date chunks (d) a first-letter sentence
- 2.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: coconut, violin, banana? (a) Bakes Vans Cook (b) Vans Bakes Cook (c) Cook Vans Bakes (d) Vans Cook Bakes
- 4.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) night (d) king
- 5.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 6.📝 A list to learn, in order: rope, ladder, monkey, onion. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OMLR (b) RLMO (c) LRMO (d) LMOR
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Nine Eat Seven ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pigs (b) Kind (c) Wise (d) Young
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 893081525. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 893 081 52 (b) 839 081 525 (c) 893 081 525 (d) 893 308 1525
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sock (b) shell (c) tell (d) spell
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ladder, wallet, cat? (a) Lazy Wet Cook (b) Wet Lazy Cook (c) Wet Cook Lazy (d) Cook Wet Lazy
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Neat Silly Wet (b) Eight Silly Wet Neat (c) Wet Silly Eight Neat (d) Neat Eight Silly Wet
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: key, apple, rose? (a) Kids All Rani (b) Rani All Kids (c) All Kids Rani (d) All Rani Kids
- 13.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) nothing at all (d) an acronym word
- 14.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) means something to you (c) changes daily (d) has no pattern
- 15.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kettle, watch, ant, coconut, orange is “Kind Wet Aunty ___ Only”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Crazy (b) Yaks (c) Nani (d) Grab
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kettle, guava, candle, tomato, ladder is “Kids Goats Crazy ___ Lions”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eat (b) Toys (c) Neat (d) Cook
- 17.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
- 18.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 19.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) they are always true (c) they are longer (d) sound patterns stick
- 20.📝 A list to learn, in order: vase, coconut, mirror, tent. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CMTV (b) TMCV (c) CVMT (d) VCMT
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) block (c) shock (d) string
- 22.📅 The digits 11031976 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 11/03/1976 (b) 11/0319/76 (c) 110/319/76 (d) 1103/19/76
- 23.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: frog, needle, drum, bucket, umbrella. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NDBUF (b) UBDNF (c) FNDBU (d) NFDBU
- 25.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nine Silly Wet (b) Nine Every Silly Wet (c) Wet Silly Every Nine (d) Every Silly Wet Nine
- 27.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 3311808818. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 331 180 881 (b) 331 188 0818 (c) 331 180 8818 (d) 331 180 08818
- 29.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 30.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) WGS (c) SWG (d) GWS
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Runs Sing Love Funny (b) Sing Love Funny Runs (c) Funny Love Sing Runs (d) Sing Runs Love Funny
- 32.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) again (c) more (d) twice
- 33.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
- 34.📅 The digits 12051954 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 120/519/54 (b) 12/0519/54 (c) 1205/19/54 (d) 12/05/1954
- 35.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 812987998. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 811 298 7998 (b) 812 989 798 (c) 812 987 99 (d) 812 987 998
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) ELPA (c) APLE (d) LEPA
- 38.📝 A list to learn, in order: jug, pencil, mango, inkpot, umpire. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PJMIU (b) UIMPJ (c) JPMIU (d) PMIUJ
- 39.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 40.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) never say it (b) change it each day (c) read it once silently (d) say it aloud often
Answer key
- a first-letter sentence
- 5
- Cook Vans Bakes
- cake
- 3
- RLMO
- Wise
- 893 081 525
- sock
- Lazy Wet Cook
- Neat Eight Silly Wet
- Kids All Rani
- a first-letter sentence
- means something to you
- Crazy
- Toys
- a rhyme
- what each letter means
- sound patterns stick
- VCMT
- string
- 11/03/1976
- False
- FNDBU
- chunking
- Nine Every Silly Wet
- 8
- 331 180 8818
- 9
- SWG
- Runs Sing Love Funny
- more
- the letters make no word
- 12/05/1954
- False
- 812 987 998
- ELPA
- JPMIU
- False
- say it aloud often
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