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 saffron, white, green is “___ Wise Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jeeps (b) Uncle (c) Silly (d) Dance
- 2.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 4 (M) stand for? (a) Earth (b) Mars (c) Neptune (d) Jupiter
- 3.🔢 A 15-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Seven Wise ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Lions (c) Green (d) Silly
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 532299160819. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5229 9160 819 (b) 5322 9910 6819 (c) 5322 9916 0819 (d) 5322 9916 00819
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Pink Crazy Every (b) Every Cats Pink Crazy (c) Cats Every Pink Crazy (d) Crazy Pink Cats Every
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) steps (c) tricks (d) songs
- 10.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) there is no list (c) you like spelling (d) the letters make no word
- 11.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) an acronym word (b) chunking (c) nothing at all (d) a first-letter sentence
- 12.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) nothing else (d) what each letter means
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: frog, bucket, lemon, mirror, kettle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FBLMK (b) BFLMK (c) BLMKF (d) KMLBF
- 14.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a list of numbers (c) a rhyme about cats (d) a very long word
- 15.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) clock (c) cake (d) night
- 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: tent, violin, spoon, goat. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VTSG (b) TVSG (c) VSGT (d) GSVT
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Green Sing (b) Green Wet Sing (c) Sing Wet Green (d) Wet Sing Green
- 18.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) east (b) south (c) north (d) west
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for drum, mango, lamp, needle, ant is “Dance Mum Lions Nine ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wet (b) Jolly (c) Uncle (d) Aunty
- 20.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 194 and 7 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 1 and 947
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bun (b) cane (c) train (d) brain
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Frogs Love Seven Red (b) Red Seven Love Frogs (c) Seven Red Love Frogs (d) Seven Love Frogs Red
- 23.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a kind of pen (b) a memory trick (c) a long book (d) a type of exam
- 24.📅 The digits 21072011 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2107/20/11 (b) 21/0720/11 (c) 21/07/2011 (d) 210/720/11
- 25.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 3 (S) stand for? (a) north (b) south (c) west (d) east
- 26.True or false: “swing” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 27.✏️ 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
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 298638220820. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2986 3882 20820 (b) 2986 3822 0820 (c) 2986 8220 820 (d) 2986 3822 0280
- 29.True or false: “main” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cook Pigs Crazy (b) Cook Pigs Crazy Eight (c) Cook Eight Pigs Crazy (d) Crazy Pigs Cook Eight
- 32.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 1 (N) stand for? (a) east (b) north (c) west (d) south
- 33.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 34.📅 The digits 02061976 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 02/06/1976 (b) 02/0619/76 (c) 0206/19/76 (d) 020/619/76
- 35.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) changes daily (c) means something to you (d) has no pattern
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 1201331287. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 120 133 1278 (b) 120 133 12877 (c) 120 131 287 (d) 120 133 1287
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IBGYORV (c) IVBGYOR (d) VIBGYOR
- 38.📅 The digits 04011974 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 040/119/74 (b) 0401/19/74 (c) 04/0119/74 (d) 04/01/1974
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Eat Crazy Play ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cook (b) Owls (c) Big (d) Jolly
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) ASIAP (c) PAISA (d) AISAP
Answer key
- Silly
- Mars
- 5
- Green
- 5322 9916 0819
- Every Cats Pink Crazy
- 8
- True
- tricks
- the letters make no word
- a first-letter sentence
- what each letter means
- FBLMK
- initials match the list
- night
- TVSG
- Sing Wet Green
- east
- Aunty
- 19 and 47
- bun
- Red Seven Love Frogs
- a memory trick
- 21/07/2011
- south
- True
- a silly, funny one
- 2986 3822 0820
- True
- 4
- Eight Cook Pigs Crazy
- north
- 7
- 02/06/1976
- means something to you
- 120 133 1287
- VIBGYOR
- 04/01/1974
- Cook
- PAISA
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