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 this list, in order: van, sock, bucket? (a) Sing Bakes Vans (b) Sing Vans Bakes (c) Vans Sing Bakes (d) Bakes Sing Vans
- 2.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 3.📝 A list to learn, in order: rope, sock, ant, monkey, umpire. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SRAMU (b) UMASR (c) SAMUR (d) RSAMU
- 4.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IBGYORV (b) ROYGBIV (c) VIBGYOR (d) IVBGYOR
- 5.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 6.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a long poem (c) first letters as a word (d) a type of number
- 7.🎵 Which word does “sea” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) rain (d) clock
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 6851308435. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 681 308 435 (b) 685 130 8345 (c) 685 130 8435 (d) 668 513 08435
- 9.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
- 10.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) is very long (c) changes daily (d) means something to you
- 11.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SRLF (b) FLSR (c) SLFR (d) RSLF
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: inkpot, ant, frog? (a) Fly Ants Inside (b) Ants Fly Inside (c) Ants Inside Fly (d) Inside Ants Fly
- 14.True or false: “won” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: radio, drum, umpire? (a) Runs Dance Uncle (b) Uncle Dance Runs (c) Dance Runs Uncle (d) Dance Uncle Runs
- 16.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 17.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 18.📅 The digits 08011979 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 08/0119/79 (b) 0801/19/79 (c) 080/119/79 (d) 08/01/1979
- 19.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 7 (R) stand for? (a) indigo (b) violet (c) red (d) blue
- 20.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) in any order (c) backwards (d) in ABC order
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, inkpot, flute? (a) Ink Funny Aunty (b) Aunty Ink Funny (c) Ink Aunty Funny (d) Funny Ink Aunty
- 23.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) tree (c) sun (d) rain
- 24.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) king (c) clock (d) night
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “___ Ink Bakes Goats Young Old Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Very (b) My (c) Pigs (d) Lazy
- 26.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) night (b) clock (c) sun (d) tree
- 27.📝 A list to learn, in order: violin, ladder, radio, wallet, cat. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LVRWC (b) CWRLV (c) VLRWC (d) LRWCV
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Jeeps Mum Aunty (b) Aunty Mum Funny Jeeps (c) Jeeps Funny Mum Aunty (d) Funny Mum Aunty Jeeps
- 29.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it is printed bigger (d) it has fewer digits
- 30.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they always rhyme (c) they are longer (d) they need no learning
- 31.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) clear (c) known (d) true
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAAE (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAEA (d) AEASNAA
- 33.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 and 947 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 19 and 47
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ice cream, bucket, fan, ant, parrot is “___ Big Funny Aunty Pink”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Play (b) Owls (c) Ink (d) Cook
- 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) ring (c) shake (d) snake
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 204212884. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 204 122 884 (b) 204 128 84 (c) 220 421 2884 (d) 204 212 884
- 37.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mum Vans Eight Mice ___ Seven Up Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lions (b) Jeeps (c) Rani (d) Crazy
- 38.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: glass, rope, lemon, wallet, frog. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GRLWF (b) RGLWF (c) FWLRG (d) RLWFG
- 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
Answer key
- Vans Sing Bakes
- 5
- RSAMU
- VIBGYOR
- 4
- first letters as a word
- tree
- 685 130 8435
- orange
- means something to you
- False
- RSLF
- Inside Ants Fly
- True
- Runs Dance Uncle
- 2
- False
- 08/01/1979
- red
- False
- in the same order
- Aunty Ink Funny
- tree
- night
- Very
- night
- VLRWC
- Jeeps Funny Mum Aunty
- three chunks, not ten
- one word holds a list
- true
- AANSAEA
- 19 and 47
- Ink
- ring
- 204 212 884
- Jeeps
- True
- GRLWF
- an acronym
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