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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 345 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 5.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) sun (c) rain (d) bell
  6. 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. 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. 8.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
  9. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fun (b) chain (c) ton (d) done
  18. 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. 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. 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. 21.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  22. 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. 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. 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. 25.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) bell (c) cake (d) clock
  26. 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. 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. 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. 29.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) spell (b) lake (c) wake (d) run
  30. 30.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  31. 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. 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bake (b) done (c) kite (d) string
  33. 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. 34.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
  35. 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. 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. 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) songs (b) games (c) steps (d) tricks
  38. 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. 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) tea (c) key (d) free
  40. 40.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Pink
  2. what each letter means
  3. a silly, funny one
  4. Jolly Funny Mice Aunty
  5. rain
  6. initials match the list
  7. Aunty
  8. first letters as a word
  9. UOCPL
  10. Kind Wins Lazy
  11. ECPC
  12. 06/01/2015
  13. RSLF
  14. a first-letter sentence
  15. Very
  16. a beat or a tune
  17. chain
  18. Wins Cats Aunty
  19. 7176 9178 5878
  20. 04/08/1962
  21. 3
  22. Inside
  23. three chunks, not ten
  24. JFMA
  25. cake
  26. 02/04/1950
  27. larva
  28. stem
  29. spell
  30. 4
  31. Dogs
  32. string
  33. DJIOS
  34. True
  35. 11/10/1966
  36. Aunty
  37. tricks
  38. Neat Eat Sing Wise
  39. spring
  40. False

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