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.🧰 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
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: urn, parrot, jeep? (a) Play Under Jump (b) Under Play Jump (c) Play Jump Under (d) Jump Play Under
- 3.🎵 Which word does “bake” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) cake (c) tree (d) sun
- 4.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a long poem
- 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) FMAJ (c) FJMA (d) AMFJ
- 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “___ Very Eat My Jolly Seven Under Neat”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mice (b) Up (c) Pigs (d) Jeeps
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wins Sing Eight Neat (b) Eight Neat Sing Wins (c) Neat Eight Sing Wins (d) Eight Sing Wins Neat
- 8.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) star (c) world (d) planet
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for shoe, whistle, fan, duck is “___ Wins Frogs Dance”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Yum (c) Sing (d) Bakes
- 10.🎵 Which word does “smell” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) bell (d) king
- 11.🎵 Which word does “one” rhyme with? (a) night (b) rain (c) bell (d) sun
- 12.🎵 Which word does “snake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) bell (c) clock (d) king
- 13.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) no rhythm at all (b) a beat or a tune (c) writing it tiny (d) saying it once quietly
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 448673242337. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4846 7324 2337 (b) 4486 7324 2337 (c) 4486 7324 237 (d) 4486 7324 23337
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Seven Wins Nine (b) Eat Nine Seven Wins (c) Nine Eat Seven Wins (d) Wins Seven Eat Nine
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Rani Lions Frogs (b) Rani Silly Lions Frogs (c) Frogs Lions Silly Rani (d) Silly Lions Frogs Rani
- 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) PAISA (c) ASIAP (d) APISA
- 18.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 5 (Y) stand for? (a) yellow (b) indigo (c) red (d) orange
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) backwards (c) in the same order (d) in any order
- 20.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) sound patterns stick (b) they are always true (c) they need no practice (d) they are longer
- 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 692551009897. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6925 5109 897 (b) 6925 5100 9987 (c) 6925 5100 99897 (d) 6925 5100 9897
- 22.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “___ Frogs Mum Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Mum (c) Cats (d) Jump
- 23.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) run (b) won (c) bun (d) key
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Play All ___ Seven Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) My (b) Lions (c) Kind (d) Ink
- 26.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its colour (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
- 27.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a very long word (c) initials match the list (d) a rhyme about cats
- 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 649923848. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 649 238 48 (b) 649 922 3848 (c) 649 923 848 (d) 694 923 848
- 29.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kite, ball, umbrella, lamp is “Kind Big ___ Lions”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Toys (b) Neat (c) Up (d) Young
- 30.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) tree (c) cake (d) night
- 31.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a long story (d) a picture
- 32.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) kite (b) knock (c) bite (d) light
- 33.📅 The digits 28041952 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 280/419/52 (b) 28/0419/52 (c) 28/04/1952 (d) 2804/19/52
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, nest, coconut, glass, inkpot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NCGIB (b) NBCGI (c) IGCNB (d) BNCGI
- 35.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 36.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: nest, urn, cat? (a) Up Crazy Nani (b) Nani Up Crazy (c) Up Nani Crazy (d) Crazy Up Nani
- 38.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) APLE (b) LEPA (c) ELPA (d) LPAE
- 39.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) leaf (b) flower (c) stem (d) root
- 40.📅 The digits 05041967 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/0419/67 (b) 05/04/1967 (c) 0504/19/67 (d) 050/419/67
Answer key
- a first-letter sentence
- Under Play Jump
- cake
- first letters as a word
- JFMA
- Mice
- Neat Eight Sing Wins
- one
- Sing
- bell
- sun
- cake
- a beat or a tune
- 4486 7324 2337
- Nine Eat Seven Wins
- Rani Silly Lions Frogs
- PAISA
- yellow
- in the same order
- sound patterns stick
- 6925 5100 9897
- Jump
- True
- key
- Ink
- what each letter means
- initials match the list
- 649 923 848
- Up
- night
- a list in a fixed order
- knock
- 28/04/1952
- BNCGI
- 7
- the rainbow colours
- Nani Up Crazy
- ELPA
- stem
- 05/04/1967
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