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.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a kind of pen (b) a long book (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
- 2.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Love Pink All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eat (b) Kind (c) Very (d) Yaks
- 4.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wins Sing (b) Wins Goats Sing (c) Sing Wins Goats (d) Wins Sing Goats
- 6.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) green (b) white (c) saffron
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) block (c) string (d) sock
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eat Crazy Crazy Play (b) Crazy Play Crazy Eat (c) Crazy Eat Play Crazy (d) Eat Crazy Play Crazy
- 10.🔢 You want to remember the number 8775872192. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 875 787 2192 (b) 887 758 72192 (c) 877 587 2192 (d) 875 872 192
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Pigs Cats Every (b) Every Cats Cats Pigs (c) Cats Every Pigs Cats (d) Every Cats Pigs Cats
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) run (b) plane (c) ring (d) wake
- 13.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) kite (b) tell (c) snake (d) three
- 15.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: violin, tiger, sock? (a) Silly Tea Very (b) Tea Very Silly (c) Tea Silly Very (d) Very Tea Silly
- 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sing (b) wing (c) ring (d) spell
- 18.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) nothing else (d) what each letter means
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pillow, kite, urn? (a) Kind Play Uncle (b) Uncle Kind Play (c) Play Kind Uncle (d) Kind Uncle Play
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) CPCE (c) ECCP (d) ECPC
- 21.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a picture (d) a maths sum
- 22.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vans Inside Bunny ___ Yaks Old Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wins (b) Kites (c) Dogs (d) Goats
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tomato, fan, ladder, ice cream is “Toys Frogs ___ Ice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lazy (b) Nani (c) Silly (d) Dance
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) JFMA (c) AMFJ (d) FMAJ
- 25.📅 The digits 15022017 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 15/0220/17 (b) 150/220/17 (c) 1502/20/17 (d) 15/02/2017
- 26.📅 The digits 10081965 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 100/819/65 (b) 10/08/1965 (c) 1008/19/65 (d) 10/0819/65
- 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) WSG (c) WGS (d) SWG
- 28.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spell (b) bake (c) sell (d) well
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Green Sing (b) Wise Sing Green (c) Sing Wise Green (d) Green Wise Sing
- 31.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only pictures (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only numbers (d) nothing at all
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) one with no picture (c) a dull, plain one (d) a silly, funny one
- 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) spring (b) string (c) lake (d) won
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for monkey, goat, ice cream, doll, jeep is “Mum ___ Ice Dance Jolly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wet (b) Dad (c) Green (d) Jolly
- 35.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “___ Vans Every My Jeeps Seven Uncle Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mum (b) Neat (c) Jump (d) Eight
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 7316730836. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 731 677 30836 (b) 731 673 0836 (c) 731 730 836 (d) 731 673 0386
- 38.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a long poem
- 40.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) west (b) east (c) north (d) south
Answer key
- a memory trick
- the rainbow colours
- Eat
- False
- Sing Wins Goats
- green
- 9
- string
- Eat Crazy Play Crazy
- 877 587 2192
- Every Cats Pigs Cats
- plane
- False
- snake
- chunking
- Very Tea Silly
- spell
- what each letter means
- Play Kind Uncle
- ECPC
- a list in a fixed order
- Goats
- Lazy
- JFMA
- 15/02/2017
- 10/08/1965
- SWG
- 7
- bake
- Sing Wise Green
- numbers and letter lists
- a silly, funny one
- won
- Green
- False
- Mum
- 731 673 0836
- False
- first letters as a word
- west
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