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 06061984 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 060/619/84 (b) 06/0619/84 (c) 0606/19/84 (d) 06/06/1984
- 2.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Lions Pink All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eat (b) All (c) Young (d) Under
- 3.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 4.🎵 Which word does “wake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) sun (d) bell
- 5.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) reading very fast
- 6.✏️ 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
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink ___ Ice Seven Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ants (b) Dogs (c) Bakes (d) Eat
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Every ___ Play Cook”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Crazy (b) Eat (c) Ink (d) Jeeps
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, umbrella, wallet, ice cream. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IWUN (b) NUWI (c) UWIN (d) UNWI
- 10.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Europe (b) Australia (c) South America (d) Asia
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, rope, flute? (a) Frogs Rani Dogs (b) Rani Dogs Frogs (c) Dogs Rani Frogs (d) Rani Frogs Dogs
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Rani Silly ___ Fly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Vines (b) Inside (c) Lazy (d) Funny
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Green Wet Seven (b) Wet Seven Green (c) Wet Green Seven (d) Seven Wet Green
- 14.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Indian (b) Atlantic (c) Southern (d) Pacific
- 15.🎵 Which word does “tell” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) night (c) cake (d) tree
- 16.🎵 Which word does “train” rhyme with? (a) king (b) tree (c) rain (d) clock
- 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) knock (b) run (c) ring (d) ton
- 18.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bright (b) ring (c) write (d) light
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cook Pink Cats (b) Cook Eight Pink Cats (c) Cats Pink Cook Eight (d) Cook Pink Cats Eight
- 20.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ladder, banana, parrot, jug, key is “Lions ___ Pink Jeeps Kites”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jump (b) Yum (c) Bakes (d) Green
- 22.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) king (b) tree (c) rain (d) clock
- 23.True or false: “run” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🔢 You want to remember the number 611001316. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 610 101 316 (b) 110 013 16 (c) 611 001 316 (d) 611 000 1316
- 25.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) the list is short (c) the letters make no word (d) there is no list
- 26.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IBGYORV (b) ROYGBIV (c) IVBGYOR (d) VIBGYOR
- 27.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for inkpot, shoe, vase, pencil, drum is “Inside Seven ___ Pink Dad”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Pigs (c) Very (d) Wins
- 28.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 194 and 7 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 1 and 947
- 29.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) collection (c) condensation (d) precipitation
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Eat Lazy Play ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ants (b) Red (c) Big (d) Frogs
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) main (b) rake (c) well (d) rock
- 32.True or false: “brain” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🔢 You want to remember the number 4450928402. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 445 092 8402 (b) 445 098 2402 (c) 445 092 28402 (d) 445 928 402
- 34.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 9475506221. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 947 550 6221 (b) 497 550 6221 (c) 994 755 06221 (d) 475 506 221
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 113382813614. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1133 8281 3614 (b) 1338 2813 614 (c) 1133 8281 6314 (d) 1133 8281 36114
- 37.📅 The digits 28031958 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 28/0319/58 (b) 2803/19/58 (c) 28/03/1958 (d) 280/319/58
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Eight Play Cook (b) Cook Play Crazy Eight (c) Crazy Play Cook Eight (d) Eight Crazy Play Cook
- 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 4225710001. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 422 571 0001 (b) 422 571 000 (c) 422 571 0010 (d) 422 571 00001
- 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
Answer key
- 06/06/1984
- Eat
- a rhyme
- cake
- splitting into groups
- initials match the list
- Ants
- Crazy
- NUWI
- South America
- Dogs Rani Frogs
- Lazy
- Seven Wet Green
- Indian
- bell
- rain
- ring
- ring
- Eight Cook Pink Cats
- 7
- Bakes
- rain
- True
- 611 001 316
- the letters make no word
- VIBGYOR
- Very
- 19 and 47
- condensation
- Ants
- main
- True
- 445 092 8402
- the rainbow colours
- 947 550 6221
- 1133 8281 3614
- 28/03/1958
- Eight Crazy Play Cook
- 422 571 0001
- a rhyme
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