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.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) indigo (b) orange (c) green (d) violet
- 2.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, sock, needle? (a) Nani Seven Kites (b) Seven Kites Nani (c) Kites Seven Nani (d) Seven Nani Kites
- 4.📅 The digits 08032005 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 08/0320/05 (b) 080/320/05 (c) 08/03/2005 (d) 0803/20/05
- 5.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they always rhyme (c) they need no learning (d) they are longer
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 5532471900. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 553 427 1900 (b) 553 224 71900 (c) 553 247 100 (d) 553 247 1900
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) backwards (d) in the same order
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) write (b) well (c) bite (d) bright
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) block (b) white (c) bright (d) bite
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for whistle, fan, tiger, anchor is “Wise Frogs Tiny ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Grab (b) Mice (c) Ink (d) Ants
- 11.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 12.📅 The digits 07081997 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 07/0819/97 (b) 070/819/97 (c) 0708/19/97 (d) 07/08/1997
- 13.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
- 14.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its spelling backwards (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 15.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Eat ___ Pigs Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pink (b) Nine (c) Grab (d) Lions
- 16.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 1 (V) stand for? (a) red (b) indigo (c) orange (d) violet
- 17.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 18.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) the list is short (c) you like spelling (d) there is no list
- 19.📝 A list to learn, in order: tent, pencil, vase, shoe. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PTVS (b) TPVS (c) PVST (d) SVPT
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 498949711543. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4984 9971 1543 (b) 4989 4971 1543 (c) 4989 4711 543 (d) 4989 9497 11543
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wet Sing Eat Nine (b) Nine Eat Sing Wet (c) Eat Sing Wet Nine (d) Eat Nine Sing Wet
- 22.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the months (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
- 23.📅 The digits 18021951 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1802/19/51 (b) 180/219/51 (c) 18/02/1951 (d) 18/0219/51
- 24.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they are always true (b) they need no practice (c) sound patterns stick (d) they are longer
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, coconut, tomato? (a) Cook Toys Sing (b) Toys Cook Sing (c) Cook Sing Toys (d) Sing Cook Toys
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs Jolly Mum Aunty (b) Aunty Mum Frogs Jolly (c) Frogs Mum Aunty Jolly (d) Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty
- 27.🧰 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
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 4358075018. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 345 807 5018 (b) 435 807 75018 (c) 435 807 5018 (d) 458 075 018
- 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: ice cream, umpire, pencil, tomato. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UPTI (b) TPUI (c) IUPT (d) UIPT
- 30.🎵 Which word does “three” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) night (c) tree (d) rain
- 31.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) IVBGYOR (c) ROYGBIV (d) IBGYORV
- 33.🎵 Which word does “shell” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) rain (c) king (d) cake
- 34.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: glass, orange, cat? (a) Old Green Crazy (b) Green Old Crazy (c) Old Crazy Green (d) Crazy Old Green
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Eight Pink Ants (b) Eight Lazy Pink Ants (c) Lazy Pink Ants Eight (d) Ants Pink Lazy Eight
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: inkpot, mango, key? (a) Ice My Kites (b) My Ice Kites (c) My Kites Ice (d) Kites My Ice
- 39.📅 The digits 05071967 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/07/1967 (b) 050/719/67 (c) 0507/19/67 (d) 05/0719/67
- 40.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) splitting into groups
Answer key
- orange
- an acronym
- Kites Seven Nani
- 08/03/2005
- one word holds a list
- 553 247 1900
- in the same order
- well
- block
- Ants
- 8
- 07/08/1997
- first letters as a word
- what each letter means
- Lions
- violet
- False
- the letters make no word
- TPVS
- 4989 4971 1543
- Nine Eat Sing Wet
- the rainbow colours
- 18/02/1951
- sound patterns stick
- Sing Cook Toys
- Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty
- a first-letter sentence
- 435 807 5018
- IUPT
- tree
- chunking
- VIBGYOR
- bell
- False
- a rhyme
- Green Old Crazy
- Eight Lazy Pink Ants
- Ice My Kites
- 05/07/1967
- splitting into groups
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