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.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its spelling backwards (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 2.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in ABC order (c) in the same order (d) in any order
- 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 319779246. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 319 779 246 (b) 391 779 246 (c) 319 792 46 (d) 311 977 9246
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) ring (c) sing (d) bun
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Every Play Crazy (b) Crazy Play Crazy Every (c) Every Crazy Play Crazy (d) Every Crazy Crazy Play
- 7.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Every Play Ants (b) Love Play Ants Every (c) Ants Play Love Every (d) Every Love Play Ants
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ant, wallet, doll, needle is “Aunty ___ Dance Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Goats (b) Wise (c) Bakes (d) Nine
- 10.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) night (d) sun
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ball, guava, pencil? (a) Pink Goats Bunny (b) Goats Bunny Pink (c) Goats Pink Bunny (d) Bunny Goats Pink
- 12.📅 The digits 23051977 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 23/05/1977 (b) 23/0519/77 (c) 2305/19/77 (d) 230/519/77
- 13.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 14.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 15.📅 The digits 23012015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 230/120/15 (b) 23/0120/15 (c) 23/01/2015 (d) 2301/20/15
- 16.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) clock (c) cake (d) night
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wins Sing (b) Wins Goats Sing (c) Sing Wins Goats (d) Wins Sing Goats
- 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) known (c) true (d) clear
- 19.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Nani Silly Wet (b) Wet Silly Eat Nani (c) Eat Silly Wet Nani (d) Nani Eat Silly Wet
- 21.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a maths sum (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a picture
- 22.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) writing it twice
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IBGYORV (b) ROYGBIV (c) VIBGYOR (d) IVBGYOR
- 25.🎵 Which word does “sing” rhyme with? (a) king (b) cake (c) rain (d) sun
- 26.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 27.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sea (b) rake (c) free (d) knee
- 29.📅 The digits 04092013 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 04/09/2013 (b) 040/920/13 (c) 04/0920/13 (d) 0409/20/13
- 30.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 752643201. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 752 643 201 (b) 572 643 201 (c) 752 643 2011 (d) 752 432 01
- 32.True or false: “three” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: umpire, doll, apple, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UDAL (b) DALU (c) LADU (d) DUAL
- 34.🔤 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
- 35.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: inkpot, van, jug? (a) Very Ink Jolly (b) Very Jolly Ink (c) Ink Very Jolly (d) Jolly Very Ink
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 6987948935. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 698 794 88935 (b) 698 794 893 (c) 698 794 8953 (d) 698 794 8935
- 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) brain (b) plane (c) snake (d) won
- 39.📅 The digits 28052024 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 280/520/24 (b) 28/0520/24 (c) 2805/20/24 (d) 28/05/2024
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: goat, orange, pencil? (a) Play Owls Green (b) Green Owls Play (c) Owls Green Play (d) Owls Play Green
Answer key
- what each letter means
- True
- in the same order
- 319 779 246
- bun
- Every Crazy Play Crazy
- 2
- Every Love Play Ants
- Wise
- night
- Bunny Goats Pink
- 23/05/1977
- 2
- 4
- 23/01/2015
- clock
- Sing Wins Goats
- true
- 2
- Nani Eat Silly Wet
- a list in a fixed order
- False
- splitting into groups
- VIBGYOR
- king
- 3
- first letters as a word
- rake
- 04/09/2013
- chunking
- 752 643 201
- False
- UDAL
- ECPC
- False
- Ink Very Jolly
- 698 794 8935
- won
- 28/05/2024
- Green Owls Play
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