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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 374 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 2.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  3. 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. 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. 5.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  6. 6.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a long poem (c) first letters as a word (d) a type of number
  7. 7.🎵 Which word does “sea” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) rain (d) clock
  8. 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. 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. 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. 11.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  12. 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. 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. 14.True or false: “won” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
  15. 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. 16.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  17. 17.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
  18. 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. 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. 20.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
  21. 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. 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. 23.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) tree (c) sun (d) rain
  24. 24.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) king (c) clock (d) night
  25. 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. 26.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) night (b) clock (c) sun (d) tree
  27. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) ring (c) shake (d) snake
  36. 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. 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. 38.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  39. 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. 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

  1. Vans Sing Bakes
  2. 5
  3. RSAMU
  4. VIBGYOR
  5. 4
  6. first letters as a word
  7. tree
  8. 685 130 8435
  9. orange
  10. means something to you
  11. False
  12. RSLF
  13. Inside Ants Fly
  14. True
  15. Runs Dance Uncle
  16. 2
  17. False
  18. 08/01/1979
  19. red
  20. False
  21. in the same order
  22. Aunty Ink Funny
  23. tree
  24. night
  25. Very
  26. night
  27. VLRWC
  28. Jeeps Funny Mum Aunty
  29. three chunks, not ten
  30. one word holds a list
  31. true
  32. AANSAEA
  33. 19 and 47
  34. Ink
  35. ring
  36. 204 212 884
  37. Jeeps
  38. True
  39. GRLWF
  40. an acronym

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