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 the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Aunty Play Lazy Eight (b) Lazy Eight Play Aunty (c) Eight Lazy Play Aunty (d) Lazy Play Aunty Eight
- 2.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it is printed bigger (d) it is a smaller number
- 3.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) knock (b) kite (c) wake (d) main
- 4.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) IVBGYOR (d) IBGYORV
- 5.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) say it aloud often (b) change it each day (c) never say it (d) read it once silently
- 7.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sea (b) tell (c) bee (d) three
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, ladder, orange, nest. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LONS (b) LSON (c) NOLS (d) SLON
- 10.🔢 You want to remember the number 7929641698. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 792 964 1698 (b) 792 964 16988 (c) 792 961 698 (d) 792 964 1968
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) GWS (c) WSG (d) WGS
- 12.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 13.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 14.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for whistle, candle, jug, tent, drum is “Wet Crazy Jeeps Tiny ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Neat (b) Kind (c) Dogs (d) Wise
- 15.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) initials match the list (c) a list of numbers (d) a very long word
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: apple, bucket, onion? (a) Bakes Ants Old (b) Old Bakes Ants (c) Ants Bakes Old (d) Bakes Old Ants
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “___ Sing Love Funny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dance (b) Kites (c) Lazy (d) Red
- 18.📅 The digits 08082019 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0808/20/19 (b) 08/08/2019 (c) 080/820/19 (d) 08/0820/19
- 19.True or false: “write” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they are longer
- 21.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 3 (E) stand for? (a) Mercury (b) Neptune (c) Venus (d) Earth
- 22.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) one (b) brain (c) won (d) bun
- 23.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) February (b) January (c) April (d) March
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) NUSJMEVM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VMEMJSUN
- 25.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Indian (c) Southern (d) Arctic
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Seven Grab (b) Wet Grab Seven (c) Seven Wet Grab (d) Grab Wet Seven
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) run (b) done (c) sock (d) ton
- 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) kite (b) ton (c) bake (d) white
- 29.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 30.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) no rhythm at all (b) a beat or a tune (c) writing it tiny (d) saying it once quietly
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Aunty Pigs Lions Eight (b) Lions Pigs Aunty Eight (c) Lions Eight Pigs Aunty (d) Eight Lions Pigs Aunty
- 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 8384186583. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 838 418 86583 (b) 838 418 6583 (c) 838 418 6853 (d) 838 418 653
- 33.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) an acronym word (c) a first-letter sentence (d) nothing at all
- 34.🔢 You want to remember the number 106371245. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 106 637 1245 (b) 106 372 45 (c) 106 371 245 (d) 106 371 425
- 35.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 1 (V) stand for? (a) violet (b) green (c) orange (d) indigo
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 452976634. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 452 976 63 (b) 452 976 6634 (c) 459 276 634 (d) 452 976 634
- 37.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) shake (c) train (d) make
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 39.📅 The digits 22112001 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2211/20/01 (b) 22/1120/01 (c) 221/120/01 (d) 22/11/2001
- 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, umpire, whistle, bucket. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UWBC (b) CUWB (c) BWUC (d) UCWB
Answer key
- Eight Lazy Play Aunty
- three chunks, not ten
- wake
- VIBGYOR
- False
- say it aloud often
- 2
- tell
- SLON
- 792 964 1698
- SWG
- 2
- what each letter means
- Dogs
- initials match the list
- Ants Bakes Old
- Red
- 08/08/2019
- True
- one word holds a list
- Earth
- brain
- April
- MVEMJSUN
- Indian
- Seven Wet Grab
- sock
- bake
- a rhyme
- a beat or a tune
- Eight Lions Pigs Aunty
- 838 418 6583
- a first-letter sentence
- 106 371 245
- violet
- 452 976 634
- train
- a rhyme
- 22/11/2001
- CUWB
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