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.🔢 You want to remember the number 816878908967. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8186 7890 8967 (b) 8187 8908 967 (c) 8168 7899 08967 (d) 8168 7890 8967
- 2.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is a smaller number (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is printed bigger
- 3.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) planet (c) world (d) star
- 5.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 6.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
- 7.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in ABC order (c) in the same order (d) in any order
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Red Seven Lazy Fly (b) Seven Red Lazy Fly (c) Seven Lazy Fly Red (d) Fly Lazy Seven Red
- 11.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a very long word (c) a list of numbers (d) a rhyme about cats
- 12.🎵 Which word does “train” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) cake (c) sun (d) night
- 13.🔢 You want to remember the number 570370079. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 570 370 0779 (b) 570 307 079 (c) 573 700 79 (d) 570 370 079
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a silly, funny one (c) one with no picture (d) a dull, plain one
- 15.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) thing (c) bake (d) wake
- 16.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they are longer
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vines Every Mice Jolly Sing ___ Neat”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yum (b) Lazy (c) Uncle (d) Silly
- 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink Aunty Ink Silly ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Uncle (b) Fly (c) Seven (d) Ants
- 19.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) rain (d) clock
- 20.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Neat ___ Sing Wins”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eight (b) Old (c) Green (d) Mice
- 21.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) VMEMJSUN (c) VEMJSUNM (d) NUSJMEVM
- 22.📝 A list to learn, in order: needle, umbrella, vase, candle, rope. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UNVCR (b) RCVUN (c) UVCRN (d) NUVCR
- 23.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) AMFJ (c) JFMA (d) FJMA
- 24.🔢 You want to remember the number 560069021. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 560 066 9021 (b) 560 690 21 (c) 506 069 021 (d) 560 069 021
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: van, sock, monkey? (a) Seven Vans Mum (b) Vans Seven Mum (c) Mum Seven Vans (d) Seven Mum Vans
- 26.True or false: “plane” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 961811341414. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6918 1134 1414 (b) 9611 1341 414 (c) 9618 1113 41414 (d) 9618 1134 1414
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, ice cream, mango? (a) Silly Ice Mice (b) Mice Ice Silly (c) Ice Mice Silly (d) Ice Silly Mice
- 29.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) April (b) February (c) January (d) March
- 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: flute, monkey, ant, pencil, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MAPLF (b) MFAPL (c) LPAMF (d) FMAPL
- 31.📝 A list to learn, in order: jalebi, doll, anchor, bucket, umbrella. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DJABU (b) DABUJ (c) JDABU (d) UBADJ
- 32.🎵 Which word does “white” rhyme with? (a) king (b) night (c) bell (d) sun
- 33.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 3 (B) stand for? (a) yellow (b) indigo (c) blue (d) green
- 34.🔢 You want to remember the number 164737760040. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1647 7376 0040 (b) 1647 3776 0040 (c) 1647 3777 60040 (d) 1647 3770 040
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 532632928181. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5322 6329 28181 (b) 5326 3292 811 (c) 5326 3292 8181 (d) 5326 3298 2181
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Ants Mum Frogs Jolly (b) Jolly Frogs Mum Ants (c) Frogs Jolly Mum Ants (d) Frogs Mum Ants Jolly
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 8257410282. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 825 741 0282 (b) 825 741 022 (c) 825 741 02282 (d) 825 741 2082
- 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lane (b) train (c) kite (d) main
- 39.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 194 and 7
- 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: tomato, mirror, apple, watch, ball. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) TMAWB (b) MTAWB (c) BWAMT (d) MAWBT
Answer key
- 8168 7890 8967
- three chunks, not ten
- False
- one
- first letters as a word
- what each letter means
- True
- False
- in the same order
- Red Seven Lazy Fly
- initials match the list
- rain
- 570 370 079
- a silly, funny one
- thing
- one word holds a list
- Uncle
- Ants
- rain
- Eight
- MVEMJSUN
- NUVCR
- JFMA
- 560 069 021
- Vans Seven Mum
- True
- 9618 1134 1414
- Silly Ice Mice
- February
- FMAPL
- JDABU
- night
- blue
- 1647 3776 0040
- 5326 3292 8181
- Jolly Frogs Mum Ants
- 825 741 0282
- kite
- 19 and 47
- TMAWB
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