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.📝 A list to learn, in order: drum, umpire, guava, owl. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OGUD (b) UGOD (c) UDGO (d) DUGO
- 2.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 3.📅 The digits 15081996 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1508/19/96 (b) 150/819/96 (c) 15/08/1996 (d) 15/0819/96
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kite, lamp, fan? (a) Love Frogs Kites (b) Love Kites Frogs (c) Kites Love Frogs (d) Frogs Love Kites
- 5.📝 A list to learn, in order: van, sock, needle, frog, watch. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) WFNSV (b) VSNFW (c) SVNFW (d) SNFWV
- 6.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) kite (b) light (c) white (d) sing
- 7.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) what each letter means (c) nothing else (d) its colour
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Nine Sing Wins (b) Eat Sing Wins Nine (c) Wins Sing Eat Nine (d) Nine Eat Sing Wins
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Eight Lazy ___ Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wins (b) Pink (c) Owls (d) Jeeps
- 10.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Play Aunty ___ Seven Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Play (b) Fly (c) Inside (d) Kites
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) snake (b) sell (c) bright (d) train
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for duck, rope, jug, anchor is “Dogs Rani ___ Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ink (b) Toys (c) Crazy (d) Jeeps
- 14.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for parrot, jeep, urn, watch is “___ Jeeps Under Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Green (b) Sing (c) Vans (d) Pink
- 15.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a list of numbers (c) a very long word (d) a rhyme about cats
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) lake (b) light (c) bright (d) fun
- 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) thing (b) lake (c) sock (d) spell
- 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) rock (b) make (c) fun (d) main
- 19.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SLFR (b) FLSR (c) RSLF (d) SRLF
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) again (c) fast (d) twice
- 22.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) king (c) bell (d) cake
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: anchor, monkey, coconut? (a) My Ants Cats (b) Cats My Ants (c) Ants My Cats (d) My Cats Ants
- 24.📅 The digits 10101988 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 10/1019/88 (b) 1010/19/88 (c) 10/10/1988 (d) 101/019/88
- 25.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) well (b) lock (c) free (d) bun
- 26.📝 A list to learn, in order: frog, parrot, lamp, violin, spoon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FPLVS (b) SVLPF (c) PLVSF (d) PFLVS
- 27.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the months
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) one with no picture (c) a silly, funny one (d) a dull, plain one
- 29.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 30.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 19 and 47 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 194 and 7
- 31.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) VIBGYOR (d) ROYGBIV
- 33.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: jug, banana, kettle, owl, goat. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BKOGJ (b) GOKBJ (c) JBKOG (d) BJKOG
- 35.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) JFMA (c) AMFJ (d) FJMA
- 36.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) a mind map (c) an acronym (d) a long story
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 140929045. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 144 092 9045 (b) 140 990 45 (c) 140 929 045 (d) 104 929 045
- 38.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) saffron (b) white (c) green
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) backwards (c) in ABC order (d) in the same order
- 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: duck, cat, ant, owl. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CAOD (b) DCAO (c) CDAO (d) OACD
Answer key
- DUGO
- a first-letter sentence
- 15/08/1996
- Kites Love Frogs
- VSNFW
- sing
- what each letter means
- Nine Eat Sing Wins
- Pink
- a rhyme
- Inside
- snake
- Jeeps
- Pink
- initials match the list
- fun
- thing
- rock
- a first-letter sentence
- RSLF
- more
- cake
- Ants My Cats
- 10/10/1988
- lock
- FPLVS
- the rainbow colours
- a silly, funny one
- chunking
- 19 and 47
- chunking
- VIBGYOR
- 4
- JBKOG
- JFMA
- an acronym
- 140 929 045
- green
- in the same order
- DCAO
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