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.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
- 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 928162636052. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9281 6263 602 (b) 9821 6263 6052 (c) 9288 1626 36052 (d) 9281 6263 6052
- 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
- 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 527760861906. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5277 6008 61906 (b) 5277 6086 1906 (c) 5276 0861 906 (d) 5277 6086 1096
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: van, lemon, inkpot? (a) Love Ice Very (b) Ice Love Very (c) Love Very Ice (d) Very Love Ice
- 6.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a mind map
- 7.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) known (b) clear (c) true (d) right
- 8.📅 The digits 09051955 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 090/519/55 (b) 09/05/1955 (c) 09/0519/55 (d) 0905/19/55
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) WSG (c) SWG (d) WGS
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: mango, doll, whistle? (a) Dance Mum Wins (b) Mum Dance Wins (c) Wins Dance Mum (d) Dance Wins Mum
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a very long one (c) one with no picture (d) a dull, plain one
- 12.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) reading very fast
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: kettle, net, rope, mango, banana. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NKRMB (b) BMRNK (c) NRMBK (d) KNRMB
- 14.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) February (b) April (c) March (d) January
- 15.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its colour (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
- 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 741811463078. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7418 1146 3078 (b) 4718 1146 3078 (c) 7441 8114 63078 (d) 7411 1463 078
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Neat Eat Silly Wise (b) Eat Neat Silly Wise (c) Eat Silly Wise Neat (d) Wise Silly Eat Neat
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) VEMJSUNM (c) VMEMJSUN (d) MVEMJSUN
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Eight Pink All (b) All Pink Lions Eight (c) Lions Pink All Eight (d) Eight Lions Pink All
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, anchor, candle? (a) Cook Ants Jeeps (b) Ants Cook Jeeps (c) Jeeps Ants Cook (d) Ants Jeeps Cook
- 21.🎵 Which word does “snake” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) cake (c) tree (d) night
- 22.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) snake (b) three (c) brain (d) bun
- 23.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the months (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
- 24.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) pupa (b) adult (c) egg (d) larva
- 25.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) the list is short (c) the letters make no word (d) there is no list
- 26.🔢 You want to remember the number 430155658. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 430 015 5658 (b) 430 155 658 (c) 403 155 658 (d) 430 155 65
- 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAAE (b) AEASNAA (c) AANSAEA (d) ANSAEAA
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ball, owl, monkey, duck is “Bunny ___ Mice Dance”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Mice (c) Lions (d) Old
- 29.📅 The digits 09031960 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 09/0319/60 (b) 09/03/1960 (c) 0903/19/60 (d) 090/319/60
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nani Silly Wins (b) Wins Silly Every Nani (c) Nani Every Silly Wins (d) Every Silly Wins Nani
- 31.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 1 (N) stand for? (a) south (b) west (c) east (d) north
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) plane (b) one (c) smell (d) lake
- 33.🎵 Which word does “free” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) night (d) clock
- 34.🔢 You want to remember the number 336091831483. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 3360 9181 3483 (b) 3360 9181 483 (c) 3360 9183 1483 (d) 3336 0918 31483
- 35.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “___ Cats Pigs Cook”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Ink (c) Tea (d) Every
- 36.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 1 (A) stand for? (a) Africa (b) Europe (c) Asia (d) South America
- 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 38.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) CPCE (c) ECCP (d) ECPC
- 40.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) backwards (d) in the same order
Answer key
- initials match the list
- 9281 6263 6052
- first letters as a word
- 5277 6086 1906
- Very Love Ice
- chunking
- true
- 09/05/1955
- SWG
- Mum Dance Wins
- a silly, funny one
- splitting into groups
- KNRMB
- January
- what each letter means
- 7418 1146 3078
- Neat Eat Silly Wise
- MVEMJSUN
- Eight Lions Pink All
- Jeeps Ants Cook
- cake
- three
- the rainbow colours
- egg
- the letters make no word
- 430 155 658
- AANSAEA
- Old
- 09/03/1960
- Nani Every Silly Wins
- north
- lake
- tree
- 3360 9183 1483
- Every
- Asia
- an acronym
- False
- ECPC
- in the same order
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