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 this list, in order: apple, whistle, igloo? (a) Wins Ants Ice (b) Ice Wins Ants (c) Ants Wins Ice (d) Wins Ice Ants
- 2.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) orange (b) green (c) violet (d) blue
- 3.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) precipitation (b) collection (c) condensation (d) evaporation
- 4.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) plane (b) won (c) rake (d) light
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a dull, plain one (c) a silly, funny one (d) one with no picture
- 6.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) the letters make no word (c) there is no list (d) you like spelling
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: mango, drum, ball? (a) Big Dance My (b) Dance Big My (c) My Dance Big (d) Dance My Big
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 7426124214. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 742 612 4214 (b) 426 124 214 (c) 742 661 24214 (d) 724 612 4214
- 9.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they need no learning (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
- 10.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) GWS
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) VIBGYOR (d) ROYGBIV
- 12.📝 A list to learn, in order: glass, nest, jalebi, kettle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NGJK (b) GNJK (c) NJKG (d) KJNG
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: wallet, flute, parrot, candle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FPCW (b) CPFW (c) WFPC (d) FWPC
- 14.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) saffron (b) white (c) green
- 15.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, banana, flute? (a) Bunny Silly Frogs (b) Frogs Bunny Silly (c) Bunny Frogs Silly (d) Silly Bunny Frogs
- 17.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 19 and 47 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 194 and 7
- 18.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 19.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sing (b) brain (c) thing (d) ring
- 20.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) has no pattern (c) means something to you (d) changes daily
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Eight Pink Crazy (b) Cook Pink Crazy Eight (c) Eight Cook Pink Crazy (d) Crazy Pink Cook Eight
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AEASNAA (b) AANSAEA (c) ANSAEAA (d) AANSAAE
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
- 24.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) nothing at all (d) an acronym word
- 25.🎵 Which word does “shell” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) cake (c) king (d) clock
- 26.📅 The digits 18032008 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 180/320/08 (b) 18/0320/08 (c) 1803/20/08 (d) 18/03/2008
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: parrot, tiger, violin? (a) Pink Toys Vines (b) Vines Toys Pink (c) Toys Pink Vines (d) Toys Vines Pink
- 28.📅 The digits 21092016 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 210/920/16 (b) 21/0920/16 (c) 2109/20/16 (d) 21/09/2016
- 29.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 30.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 31.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) leaf (b) stem (c) flower (d) root
- 32.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) what each letter means (d) its spelling backwards
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny My Aunty Jeeps (b) Jeeps Funny My Aunty (c) Funny Jeeps My Aunty (d) Aunty My Funny Jeeps
- 34.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) nothing at all (c) only pictures (d) only numbers
- 35.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: bucket, lemon, violin? (a) Love Vans Bunny (b) Bunny Love Vans (c) Love Bunny Vans (d) Vans Love Bunny
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 293998410151. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2939 9841 0151 (b) 2939 9841 01551 (c) 2939 8410 151 (d) 2939 9814 0151
- 38.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 39.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, apple, glass? (a) Ants Bunny Grab (b) Bunny Ants Grab (c) Grab Ants Bunny (d) Ants Grab Bunny
Answer key
- Ants Wins Ice
- green
- condensation
- plane
- a silly, funny one
- the letters make no word
- My Dance Big
- 742 612 4214
- one word holds a list
- SWG
- VIBGYOR
- GNJK
- WFPC
- saffron
- 5
- Silly Bunny Frogs
- 19 and 47
- an acronym
- brain
- means something to you
- Eight Cook Pink Crazy
- AANSAEA
- in the same order
- a first-letter sentence
- bell
- 18/03/2008
- Pink Toys Vines
- 21/09/2016
- 2
- a rhyme
- stem
- what each letter means
- Jeeps Funny My Aunty
- numbers and letter lists
- the rainbow colours
- Bunny Love Vans
- 2939 9841 0151
- 2
- a rhyme
- Bunny Ants Grab
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