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.📅 The digits 07041976 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 07/04/1976 (b) 0704/19/76 (c) 070/419/76 (d) 07/0419/76
- 2.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) saffron (b) white (c) green
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Fly Lazy Sing Runs (b) Sing Runs Lazy Fly (c) Runs Sing Lazy Fly (d) Sing Lazy Fly Runs
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Nani Eight Sing Wet (b) Eight Nani Sing Wet (c) Eight Sing Wet Nani (d) Wet Sing Eight Nani
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wise Silly (b) Silly Wise Goats (c) Wise Silly Goats (d) Wise Goats Silly
- 6.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) sing (b) shake (c) white (d) smell
- 7.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 9 4 7 (b) 194 and 7 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 1 and 947
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for van, needle, cat, rope, lamp is “___ Nani Cook Rani Love”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Vans (b) Aunty (c) Funny (d) Only
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “___ Eight Silly Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Runs (b) Tiny (c) Nani (d) Lions
- 10.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LEPA (b) APLE (c) ELPA (d) LPAE
- 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 723318841. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 233 188 41 (b) 732 318 841 (c) 723 318 8441 (d) 723 318 841
- 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) VMEMJSUN (c) MVEMJSUN (d) NUSJMEVM
- 13.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) no rhythm at all (b) writing it tiny (c) a beat or a tune (d) saying it once quietly
- 14.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) bun (b) swing (c) shell (d) bake
- 15.📝 A list to learn, in order: mirror, lamp, violin, rose. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LMVR (b) LVRM (c) MLVR (d) RVLM
- 16.📅 The digits 08061957 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 08/0619/57 (b) 080/619/57 (c) 08/06/1957 (d) 0806/19/57
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: guava, lamp, apple? (a) Goats Love Aunty (b) Aunty Love Goats (c) Love Aunty Goats (d) Love Goats Aunty
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Eat Pigs Cats (b) Cats Pigs Cats Eat (c) Eat Cats Pigs Cats (d) Eat Cats Cats Pigs
- 19.📅 The digits 05041956 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/0419/56 (b) 050/419/56 (c) 0504/19/56 (d) 05/04/1956
- 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) wing (c) spring (d) string
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vans Eat Mum Jolly ___ Up Neat”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Fly (b) Uncle (c) Toys (d) Seven
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 1791142811. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 179 114 2811 (b) 171 142 811 (c) 179 114 28811 (d) 171 914 2811
- 23.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: jug, apple, nest, van. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JANV (b) ANVJ (c) VNAJ (d) AJNV
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 899845288. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 899 845 288 (b) 989 845 288 (c) 899 845 28 (d) 899 845 2888
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: orange, lemon, fan? (a) Lazy Funny Owls (b) Funny Lazy Owls (c) Lazy Owls Funny (d) Owls Lazy Funny
- 27.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Antarctica (b) Africa (c) Asia (d) South America
- 28.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Africa (b) North America (c) Australia (d) South America
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) key (b) bright (c) light (d) kite
- 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: apple, mango, frog, radio, ball. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MFRBA (b) BRFMA (c) MAFRB (d) AMFRB
- 31.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
- 32.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for apple, kettle, rope, ladder is “All ___ Rani Lions”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Pigs (c) Crazy (d) Vines
- 33.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only pictures (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only numbers (d) nothing at all
- 34.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) one (c) world (d) star
- 35.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) ROYGBIV (d) VIBGYOR
- 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: NESW for the four directions, clockwise? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 38.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, umpire, candle? (a) Crazy Under Ants (b) Under Crazy Ants (c) Under Ants Crazy (d) Ants Under Crazy
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Sing Lazy Frogs (b) Sing Lazy Frogs Rani (c) Sing Rani Lazy Frogs (d) Frogs Lazy Sing Rani
Answer key
- 07/04/1976
- white
- Runs Sing Lazy Fly
- Nani Eight Sing Wet
- Silly Wise Goats
- sing
- 19 and 47
- Vans
- Nani
- ELPA
- 723 318 841
- MVEMJSUN
- a beat or a tune
- shell
- MLVR
- 08/06/1957
- Goats Love Aunty
- Eat Cats Pigs Cats
- 05/04/1956
- rock
- Seven
- 179 114 2811
- True
- JANV
- 899 845 288
- Owls Lazy Funny
- South America
- Australia
- key
- AMFRB
- the letters make no word
- Kites
- numbers and letter lists
- one
- False
- VIBGYOR
- an acronym
- 3
- Ants Under Crazy
- Rani Sing Lazy Frogs
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