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 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.📝 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) chain (b) white (c) main (d) train
- 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.✏️ 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.🔤 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.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) bell (d) sun
- 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) lake (b) done (c) bee (d) bun
- 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) well (c) cane (d) shell
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fight (b) white (c) wing (d) kite
- 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.✏️ 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.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.🔤 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.🔤 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.🧰 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.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔤 “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.📝 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) shell (c) spell (d) key
- 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.🔤 “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.🔤 “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.🎵 Which word does “one” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) king (c) night (d) sun
- 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
- Eat Lions Play All
- POLBI
- white
- 4361 9024 8420
- a silly, funny one
- VIBGYOR
- sun
- a list in a fixed order
- bee
- cane
- wing
- what each letter means
- Ice
- 8
- 23/03/1954
- Eight
- SMJD
- 2
- Green
- one word holds a list
- ECPC
- a first-letter sentence
- True
- 415 668 775
- an acronym
- Mice Love Wins
- Neat Pink Fly
- False
- 2
- Sing
- False
- Eat Love Pink All
- condensation
- CWOTB
- key
- Wins
- indigo
- east
- sun
- first letters as a word
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