Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 410 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
2. 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eat Cook Cook Pink (b) Eat Cook Pink Cook (c) Cook Pink Cook Eat (d) Cook Eat Pink Cook
3. 3.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 4 (M) stand for? (a) Jupiter (b) Earth (c) Mars (d) Uranus
4. 4.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ant, ladder, parrot, kettle, umbrella is “Aunty Love Pink Kind ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Under (c) Big (d) Neat
6. 6.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
7. 7.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its colour (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
8. 8.📅 The digits 28042012 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2804/20/12 (b) 28/0420/12 (c) 28/04/2012 (d) 280/420/12
9. 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 395922839. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 395 922 839 (b) 399 592 2839 (c) 395 922 39 (d) 395 928 239
10. 10.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
11. 11.📅 The digits 17111965 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 17/1119/65 (b) 17/11/1965 (c) 171/119/65 (d) 1711/19/65
12. 12.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a list in a fixed order (b) a picture (c) a maths sum (d) a long story
13. 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: wallet, igloo, glass, coconut. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CGIW (b) IWGC (c) IGCW (d) WIGC
14. 14.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
15. 15.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it is a smaller number (d) it is printed bigger
16. 16.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) pupa (b) egg (c) adult (d) larva
17. 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) shell (b) block (c) bun (d) chain
18. 18.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
19. 19.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) right (c) true (d) known
20. 20.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) songs (b) steps (c) games (d) tricks
21. 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 112411450. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 112 411 405 (b) 112 414 50 (c) 112 411 450 (d) 111 241 1450
22. 22.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) sock (b) lake (c) ring (d) bite
24. 24.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 1 (M) stand for? (a) Uranus (b) Mars (c) Venus (d) Mercury
25. 25.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) learn (c) write (d) say
26. 26.🔢 A 15-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
27. 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
28. 28.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kettle, owl, spoon, apple, monkey is “Kind ___ Silly All Mum”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Old (b) Jeeps (c) Inside (d) Pigs
30. 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 655000543. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 655 000 54 (b) 565 000 543 (c) 655 000 543 (d) 655 000 5543
31. 31.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
32. 32.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for guava, banana, flute, wallet, urn is “___ Big Frogs Wins Up”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jump (b) Goats (c) Tiny (d) Eat
33. 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: mango, cat, goat, lemon, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CGLFM (b) FLGCM (c) CMGLF (d) MCGLF
34. 34.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
35. 35.🎵 Which word does “spring” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) king (d) night
36. 36.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) green (b) indigo (c) blue (d) orange
37. 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
38. 38.🔢 You want to remember the number 821256308550. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2812 5630 8550 (b) 8225 6308 550 (c) 8212 5630 08550 (d) 8212 5630 8550
39. 39.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) read it once silently (b) say it aloud often (c) never say it (d) change it each day
40. 40.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?

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