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 egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Eat Lions ___ Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) All (b) Funny (c) Lazy (d) Pink
- 2.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) its spelling backwards
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a very long one (c) a dull, plain one (d) a silly, funny one
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Mice Aunty Jolly (b) Funny Jolly Mice Aunty (c) Aunty Mice Funny Jolly (d) Jolly Funny Mice Aunty
- 5.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) sun (c) rain (d) bell
- 6.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a very long word (c) a rhyme about cats (d) a list of numbers
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “___ Aunty Nani Sing All Eight Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Jeeps (c) Aunty (d) Toys
- 8.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: umpire, orange, candle, pencil, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UOCPL (b) LPCOU (c) OUCPL (d) OCPLU
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, whistle, ladder? (a) Wins Lazy Kind (b) Wins Kind Lazy (c) Lazy Wins Kind (d) Kind Wins Lazy
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) CEPC (c) ECPC (d) ECCP
- 12.📅 The digits 06012015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0601/20/15 (b) 060/120/15 (c) 06/01/2015 (d) 06/0120/15
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) FLSR (b) SLFR (c) SRLF (d) RSLF
- 14.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 15.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for jeep, van, umpire, owl is “Jolly ___ Uncle Old”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Very (c) Old (d) Red
- 16.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) writing it tiny (b) a beat or a tune (c) saying it once quietly (d) no rhythm at all
- 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fun (b) chain (c) ton (d) done
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: whistle, candle, anchor? (a) Cats Wins Aunty (b) Cats Aunty Wins (c) Wins Cats Aunty (d) Aunty Cats Wins
- 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 717691785878. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7176 9785 878 (b) 7176 9718 5878 (c) 7176 6917 85878 (d) 7176 9178 5878
- 20.📅 The digits 04081962 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 04/0819/62 (b) 04/08/1962 (c) 040/819/62 (d) 0408/19/62
- 21.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 22.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for needle, goat, mirror, cat, ice cream is “Nine Goats Mum Cats ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Inside (b) Vans (c) Silly (d) Eight
- 23.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it has fewer digits (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it is printed bigger
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) AMFJ (c) FJMA (d) FMAJ
- 25.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) bell (c) cake (d) clock
- 26.📅 The digits 02041950 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0204/19/50 (b) 02/04/1950 (c) 020/419/50 (d) 02/0419/50
- 27.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 2 (L) stand for? (a) larva (b) adult (c) egg (d) pupa
- 28.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) root (b) flower (c) stem (d) leaf
- 29.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) spell (b) lake (c) wake (d) run
- 30.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, doll, shoe, umpire is “My ___ Sing Uncle”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Sing (b) Dogs (c) Tiny (d) Neat
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bake (b) done (c) kite (d) string
- 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: doll, jalebi, ice cream, onion, spoon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JIOSD (b) DJIOS (c) JDIOS (d) SOIJD
- 34.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 35.📅 The digits 11101966 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 11/10/1966 (b) 11/1019/66 (c) 111/019/66 (d) 1110/19/66
- 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for umpire, tent, apple, net, pillow is “Up Tea ___ Neat Pigs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) Tea (c) Only (d) Nani
- 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) songs (b) games (c) steps (d) tricks
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wise Sing Eat Neat (b) Eat Neat Sing Wise (c) Neat Eat Sing Wise (d) Eat Sing Wise Neat
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) tea (c) key (d) free
- 40.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- Pink
- what each letter means
- a silly, funny one
- Jolly Funny Mice Aunty
- rain
- initials match the list
- Aunty
- first letters as a word
- UOCPL
- Kind Wins Lazy
- ECPC
- 06/01/2015
- RSLF
- a first-letter sentence
- Very
- a beat or a tune
- chain
- Wins Cats Aunty
- 7176 9178 5878
- 04/08/1962
- 3
- Inside
- three chunks, not ten
- JFMA
- cake
- 02/04/1950
- larva
- stem
- spell
- 4
- Dogs
- string
- DJIOS
- True
- 11/10/1966
- Aunty
- tricks
- Neat Eat Sing Wise
- spring
- False
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