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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jeeps Frogs ___ All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Mum (c) Seven (d) Tea
- 2.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) an acronym word (c) nothing at all (d) a first-letter sentence
- 4.🎵 Which word does “lane” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) rain (c) tree (d) bell
- 5.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) fight (b) sing (c) make (d) won
- 6.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) means something to you (b) is very long (c) has no pattern (d) changes daily
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “___ Wise Grab”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Dance (c) Tea (d) Silly
- 8.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Asia (b) Australia (c) Antarctica (d) North America
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, wallet, kite, fan, ant. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NWKFA (b) WNKFA (c) AFKWN (d) WKFAN
- 10.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) saffron (b) white (c) green
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pigs Crazy Every (b) Every Crazy Pigs Crazy (c) Every Crazy Crazy Pigs (d) Crazy Every Pigs Crazy
- 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 334425066798. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 3344 2506 6789 (b) 3344 2566 798 (c) 3344 2506 6798 (d) 3344 2506 66798
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IBGYORV (b) ROYGBIV (c) IVBGYOR (d) VIBGYOR
- 14.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: net, bucket, radio? (a) Red Big Neat (b) Big Neat Red (c) Big Red Neat (d) Neat Big Red
- 16.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 17.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a list of numbers (c) initials match the list (d) a very long word
- 18.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) the letters make no word (c) you like spelling (d) there is no list
- 19.📝 A list to learn, in order: needle, flute, lamp, igloo. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) ILFN (b) FLIN (c) FNLI (d) NFLI
- 20.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Fly My Ants (b) Fly Jolly My Ants (c) Ants My Fly Jolly (d) Fly My Ants Jolly
- 22.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SRLF (b) SLFR (c) RSLF (d) FLSR
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Nine Eat Sing Wins (b) Wins Sing Eat Nine (c) Eat Sing Wins Nine (d) Eat Nine Sing Wins
- 25.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Nine Seven Wet (b) Eat Seven Wet Nine (c) Wet Seven Eat Nine (d) Nine Eat Seven Wet
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: glass, shoe, apple? (a) All Seven Grab (b) Grab Seven All (c) Seven All Grab (d) Seven Grab All
- 28.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Seven Runs Lazy Fly (b) Seven Lazy Fly Runs (c) Runs Seven Lazy Fly (d) Fly Lazy Seven Runs
- 30.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
- 31.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) lake (c) rake (d) bright
- 32.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 3 (M) stand for? (a) April (b) February (c) January (d) March
- 33.🔢 You want to remember the number 8553910792. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 553 910 792 (b) 855 391 0972 (c) 855 539 10792 (d) 855 391 0792
- 34.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) done (c) over (d) ended
- 35.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) star (c) world (d) one
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) plane (b) main (c) cane (d) wake
- 37.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 5 (J) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Jupiter (c) Venus (d) Mercury
- 38.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Eight Lazy Play All (b) All Play Lazy Eight (c) Lazy Eight Play All (d) Lazy Play All Eight
Answer key
- Mum
- False
- a first-letter sentence
- rain
- sing
- means something to you
- Silly
- Australia
- NWKFA
- white
- Every Crazy Pigs Crazy
- 3344 2506 6798
- VIBGYOR
- first letters as a word
- Neat Big Red
- a first-letter sentence
- initials match the list
- the letters make no word
- NFLI
- chunking
- Jolly Fly My Ants
- True
- RSLF
- Nine Eat Sing Wins
- True
- Nine Eat Seven Wet
- Grab Seven All
- 4
- Runs Seven Lazy Fly
- the rainbow colours
- bright
- March
- 855 391 0792
- done
- one
- wake
- Jupiter
- True
- 7
- Eight Lazy Play All
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