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 root, stem, leaf, flower is “___ Sing Love Frogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Runs (b) Owls (c) Wet (d) Ice
- 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.🎵 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.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 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.📝 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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) block (b) fun (c) light (d) bake
- 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.True or false: “shock” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 19.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 20.True or false: “chain” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 22.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) wing (b) bite (c) lock (d) fight
- 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.🔢 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.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 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.🔢 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) bee (b) run (c) lock (d) lane
- 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.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) April (b) March (c) January (d) February
- 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
- Runs
- means something to you
- Eight
- Wise
- BJVS
- 408 240 145
- initials match the list
- Uncle Cook Kites
- 8
- Runs Silly Lions Fly
- a beat or a tune
- False
- False
- TLROS
- splitting into groups
- light
- RSLF
- True
- 6
- False
- 5
- 7
- AANSAEA
- True
- Venus
- Rani Sing Lions Fly
- Sing
- wing
- Runs
- 19 and 47
- True
- a first-letter sentence
- three chunks, not ten
- ECPC
- Red Goats Crazy
- leaf
- run
- VIBGYOR
- April
- chunking
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