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 digits 04041998 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0404/19/98 (b) 04/04/1998 (c) 040/419/98 (d) 04/0419/98
- 2.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) tree (d) cake
- 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
- 4.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) make (b) shell (c) bright (d) plane
- 6.📅 The digits 24072018 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2407/20/18 (b) 24/07/2018 (c) 24/0720/18 (d) 240/720/18
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, tomato, radio? (a) Tea All Runs (b) Runs Tea All (c) Tea Runs All (d) All Tea Runs
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 944345175042. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9443 5417 5042 (b) 9443 4517 5042 (c) 9443 4517 542 (d) 9444 3451 75042
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: ladder, tiger, umpire, guava, kite. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) TLUGK (b) TUGKL (c) LTUGK (d) KGUTL
- 10.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in any order (d) in ABC order
- 12.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 13.📅 The digits 26122015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 26/1220/15 (b) 261/220/15 (c) 26/12/2015 (d) 2612/20/15
- 14.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 15.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) the list is short (c) there is no list (d) you like spelling
- 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: parrot, onion, lemon, watch. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OPLW (b) POLW (c) OLWP (d) WLOP
- 17.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 3 (S) stand for? (a) south (b) west (c) east (d) north
- 18.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rose, guava, violin? (a) Goats Rani Very (b) Very Goats Rani (c) Rani Goats Very (d) Goats Very Rani
- 20.🔤 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
- 21.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 1 (R) stand for? (a) leaf (b) stem (c) flower (d) root
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nine Silly Wise (b) Every Silly Wise Nine (c) Wise Silly Every Nine (d) Nine Every Silly Wise
- 23.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) March (b) January (c) April (d) February
- 24.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “___ Very Eight My Jump Silly Under Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lions (b) Nani (c) My (d) Jolly
- 25.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) reading very fast (c) splitting into groups (d) writing it twice
- 26.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a list of numbers (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
- 27.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) February (b) January (c) April (d) March
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for sock, violin, umbrella, mango, lamp is “___ Very Under Mice Lions”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Seven (b) Kites (c) Eat (d) Only
- 29.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 30.🎵 Which word does “won” rhyme with? (a) night (b) bell (c) sun (d) king
- 31.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) SRLF (c) FLSR (d) SLFR
- 33.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 34.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Cook Eight (b) Cook Eight Play Cats (c) Eight Cook Play Cats (d) Cook Play Cats Eight
- 36.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) king (b) bell (c) sun (d) cake
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) PAISA (c) ASIAP (d) APISA
- 38.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) nothing at all (c) an acronym word (d) a first-letter sentence
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pink Cats Every (b) Cats Every Pink Cook (c) Cats Pink Cook Every (d) Every Cats Pink Cook
- 40.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) south (b) north (c) west (d) east
Answer key
- 04/04/1998
- tree
- first letters as a word
- True
- shell
- 24/07/2018
- All Tea Runs
- 9443 4517 5042
- LTUGK
- 2
- in the same order
- a rhyme
- 26/12/2015
- a first-letter sentence
- the letters make no word
- POLW
- south
- False
- Rani Goats Very
- SWG
- root
- Nine Every Silly Wise
- April
- My
- splitting into groups
- initials match the list
- January
- Seven
- an acronym
- sun
- False
- RSLF
- a rhyme
- the rainbow colours
- Eight Cook Play Cats
- sun
- PAISA
- a first-letter sentence
- Every Cats Pink Cook
- east
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