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.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ice cream, tent, cat? (a) Tiny Cook Ink (b) Tiny Ink Cook (c) Cook Tiny Ink (d) Ink Tiny Cook
- 2.📅 The digits 01031968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 01/03/1968 (b) 01/0319/68 (c) 0103/19/68 (d) 010/319/68
- 3.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
- 6.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a list in a fixed order (b) a maths sum (c) a long story (d) a picture
- 7.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) condensation (c) collection (d) precipitation
- 8.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, rose, apple, parrot, drum. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DPARC (b) RCAPD (c) CRAPD (d) RAPDC
- 9.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the oceans
- 10.📅 The digits 01102013 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 011/020/13 (b) 0110/20/13 (c) 01/10/2013 (d) 01/1020/13
- 11.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a long poem
- 12.📅 The digits 22101957 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 221/019/57 (b) 2210/19/57 (c) 22/1019/57 (d) 22/10/1957
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) ELPA (c) APLE (d) LEPA
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: frog, ball, lemon? (a) Lions Big Frogs (b) Frogs Big Lions (c) Big Lions Frogs (d) Big Frogs Lions
- 15.📅 The digits 08061987 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 08/0619/87 (b) 0806/19/87 (c) 080/619/87 (d) 08/06/1987
- 16.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) stem (b) leaf (c) root (d) flower
- 17.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) April (b) January (c) February (d) March
- 18.🎵 Which word does “knee” rhyme with? (a) king (b) tree (c) night (d) clock
- 19.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a mind map (d) a long story
- 20.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for coconut, umbrella, jalebi, whistle is “Cats Under Jeeps ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Green (b) Cats (c) Wet (d) Young
- 21.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 22.📅 The digits 20012015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 20/01/2015 (b) 2001/20/15 (c) 20/0120/15 (d) 200/120/15
- 23.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) AISAP (c) ASIAP (d) PAISA
- 24.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) initials match the list (c) a list of numbers (d) a rhyme about cats
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for apple, duck, tiger, ladder is “___ Dance Tiny Lions”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nine (b) Vines (c) Aunty (d) Jolly
- 26.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for glass, radio, mirror, ball, kite is “Goats Runs My ___ Kind”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Silly (b) Bunny (c) Jump (d) Every
- 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) AANSAAE (c) AEASNAA (d) ANSAEAA
- 28.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) changes daily (c) means something to you (d) is very long
- 29.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
- 30.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 32.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 33.🔢 You want to remember the number 477712588. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 477 715 288 (b) 477 712 58 (c) 477 712 588 (d) 447 771 2588
- 34.🔢 You want to remember the number 772038906. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 772 038 906 (b) 727 038 906 (c) 772 038 90 (d) 772 203 8906
- 35.📝 A list to learn, in order: kite, monkey, anchor, vase. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VAMK (b) MKAV (c) KMAV (d) MAVK
- 36.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, orange, frog, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OWFL (b) WOFL (c) OFLW (d) LFOW
- 37.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: NESW for the four directions, clockwise? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) spell (b) bite (c) brain (d) ton
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: guava, kettle, watch? (a) Wise Kites Green (b) Kites Green Wise (c) Green Kites Wise (d) Kites Wise Green
Answer key
- Ink Tiny Cook
- 01/03/1968
- False
- 4
- JFMA
- a list in a fixed order
- precipitation
- CRAPD
- the rainbow colours
- 01/10/2013
- first letters as a word
- 22/10/1957
- ELPA
- Frogs Big Lions
- 08/06/1987
- stem
- January
- tree
- an acronym
- Wet
- 6
- 20/01/2015
- PAISA
- initials match the list
- Aunty
- Bunny
- AANSAEA
- means something to you
- what each letter means
- True
- an acronym
- 8
- 477 712 588
- 772 038 906
- KMAV
- WOFL
- 5
- an acronym
- spell
- Green Kites Wise
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