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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 380 · 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 the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Play All Eat (b) Eat Lions Play All (c) Lions Eat Play All (d) All Play Lions Eat
  2. 2.📝 A list to learn, in order: pillow, onion, lemon, bucket, inkpot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OLBIP (b) OPLBI (c) POLBI (d) IBLOP
  3. 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) chain (b) white (c) main (d) train
  4. 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 436190248420. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4361 9042 8420 (b) 4361 9024 88420 (c) 4361 0248 420 (d) 4361 9024 8420
  5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
  6. 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) ROYGBIV (c) IBGYORV (d) VIBGYOR
  7. 7.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) bell (d) sun
  8. 8.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a list in a fixed order (b) a maths sum (c) a long story (d) a picture
  9. 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) lake (b) done (c) bee (d) bun
  10. 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) well (c) cane (d) shell
  11. 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fight (b) white (c) wing (d) kite
  12. 12.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) what each letter means (d) its spelling backwards
  13. 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink All ___ Sing All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ice (b) Pink (c) My (d) Only
  14. 14.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  15. 15.📅 The digits 23031954 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2303/19/54 (b) 23/0319/54 (c) 230/319/54 (d) 23/03/1954
  16. 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Nani ___ Silly Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Big (b) Dance (c) Eight (d) Wins
  17. 17.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, mirror, jalebi, duck. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SMJD (b) MSJD (c) MJDS (d) DJMS
  18. 18.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  19. 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Sing Wise ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mice (b) Cook (c) Dance (d) Green
  20. 20.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) one word holds a list (c) they always rhyme (d) they are longer
  21. 21.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) CEPC (c) ECCP (d) ECPC
  22. 22.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) an acronym word (c) nothing at all (d) a first-letter sentence
  23. 23.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 You want to remember the number 415668775. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 415 667 75 (b) 145 668 775 (c) 415 668 775 (d) 415 668 8775
  25. 25.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) a mind map (b) a long story (c) chunking (d) an acronym
  26. 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: mango, lemon, watch? (a) Love Wins Mice (b) Wins Love Mice (c) Mice Love Wins (d) Love Mice Wins
  27. 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: net, parrot, fan? (a) Pink Fly Neat (b) Fly Pink Neat (c) Neat Pink Fly (d) Pink Neat Fly
  28. 28.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  30. 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mum Vans Eat My Jeeps ___ Up Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Sing (c) Eat (d) Funny
  31. 31.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Pink All Eat (b) Eat Love Pink All (c) All Pink Love Eat (d) Love Eat Pink All
  33. 33.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) collection (b) precipitation (c) evaporation (d) condensation
  34. 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, whistle, owl, tomato, bucket. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) WCOTB (b) CWOTB (c) BTOWC (d) WOTBC
  35. 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) shell (c) spell (d) key
  36. 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for wallet, bucket, lamp, duck is “___ Bakes Lazy Dad”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Grab (c) Big (d) Wins
  37. 37.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 2 (I) stand for? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) indigo
  38. 38.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) east (b) north (c) west (d) south
  39. 39.🎵 Which word does “one” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) king (c) night (d) sun
  40. 40.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a long poem

Answer key

  1. Eat Lions Play All
  2. POLBI
  3. white
  4. 4361 9024 8420
  5. a silly, funny one
  6. VIBGYOR
  7. sun
  8. a list in a fixed order
  9. bee
  10. cane
  11. wing
  12. what each letter means
  13. Ice
  14. 8
  15. 23/03/1954
  16. Eight
  17. SMJD
  18. 2
  19. Green
  20. one word holds a list
  21. ECPC
  22. a first-letter sentence
  23. True
  24. 415 668 775
  25. an acronym
  26. Mice Love Wins
  27. Neat Pink Fly
  28. False
  29. 2
  30. Sing
  31. False
  32. Eat Love Pink All
  33. condensation
  34. CWOTB
  35. key
  36. Wins
  37. indigo
  38. east
  39. sun
  40. first letters as a word

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