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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 333 · 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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “___ Sing Love Frogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Runs (b) Owls (c) Wet (d) Ice
  2. 2.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) means something to you (c) is very long (d) changes daily
  3. 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Love Pigs Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eight (b) Cats (c) Kind (d) Yum
  4. 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for candle, ladder, ant, wallet, rope is “Crazy Lazy All ___ Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pink (b) Wise (c) Cook (d) Big
  5. 5.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, jeep, violin, spoon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BJVS (b) JVSB (c) JBVS (d) SVJB
  6. 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 408240145. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 408 241 45 (b) 408 824 0145 (c) 408 240 145 (d) 402 840 145
  7. 7.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) a list of numbers
  8. 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umpire, coconut, kite? (a) Uncle Cook Kites (b) Cook Kites Uncle (c) Kites Cook Uncle (d) Cook Uncle Kites
  9. 9.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  10. 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Runs Lions Fly (b) Silly Lions Fly Runs (c) Runs Silly Lions Fly (d) Fly Lions Silly Runs
  11. 11.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) saying it once quietly (b) no rhythm at all (c) a beat or a tune (d) writing it tiny
  12. 12.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📝 A list to learn, in order: tent, lemon, radio, owl, shoe. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LTROS (b) LROST (c) TLROS (d) SORLT
  15. 15.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
  16. 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) block (b) fun (c) light (d) bake
  17. 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) FLSR (b) SLFR (c) RSLF (d) SRLF
  18. 18.True or false: “shock” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  20. 20.True or false: “chain” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  22. 22.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  23. 23.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAAE (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAEA (d) AEASNAA
  24. 24.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 2 (V) stand for? (a) Uranus (b) Mars (c) Mercury (d) Venus
  26. 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Fly Lions Sing Rani (b) Sing Rani Lions Fly (c) Sing Lions Fly Rani (d) Rani Sing Lions Fly
  27. 27.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for shoe, van, nest, jug, ladder is “___ Vans Neat Jeeps Love”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wet (b) Old (c) Sing (d) Under
  28. 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) wing (b) bite (c) lock (d) fight
  29. 29.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mirror, doll, violin, rose, urn is “My Dance Vines ___ Under”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Funny (b) Runs (c) Tiny (d) Mum
  30. 30.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 194 and 7
  31. 31.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a times-table rhyme (c) chunking (d) date chunks
  33. 33.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is printed bigger (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is a smaller number
  34. 34.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECCP (b) CPCE (c) CEPC (d) ECPC
  35. 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rope, glass, coconut? (a) Crazy Goats Red (b) Goats Crazy Red (c) Red Goats Crazy (d) Goats Red Crazy
  36. 36.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 3 (L) stand for? (a) leaf (b) stem (c) flower (d) root
  37. 37.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) bee (b) run (c) lock (d) lane
  38. 38.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IVBGYOR (c) IBGYORV (d) VIBGYOR
  39. 39.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) April (b) March (c) January (d) February
  40. 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking

Answer key

  1. Runs
  2. means something to you
  3. Eight
  4. Wise
  5. BJVS
  6. 408 240 145
  7. initials match the list
  8. Uncle Cook Kites
  9. 8
  10. Runs Silly Lions Fly
  11. a beat or a tune
  12. False
  13. False
  14. TLROS
  15. splitting into groups
  16. light
  17. RSLF
  18. True
  19. 6
  20. False
  21. 5
  22. 7
  23. AANSAEA
  24. True
  25. Venus
  26. Rani Sing Lions Fly
  27. Sing
  28. wing
  29. Runs
  30. 19 and 47
  31. True
  32. a first-letter sentence
  33. three chunks, not ten
  34. ECPC
  35. Red Goats Crazy
  36. leaf
  37. run
  38. VIBGYOR
  39. April
  40. chunking

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