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 469560558. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 469 560 558 (b) 469 560 585 (c) 469 956 0558 (d) 469 605 58
- 2.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) king (b) sun (c) bell (d) tree
- 3.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
- 5.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 6.🎵 Which word does “run” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) night (d) king
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: glass, owl, lamp? (a) Love Old Green (b) Old Green Love (c) Green Old Love (d) Old Love Green
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vans Ink ___ Green Young Owls Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Every (b) Silly (c) Big (d) Wet
- 9.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) February (b) April (c) March (d) January
- 10.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a picture (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a long story
- 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 642422954607. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6424 2295 44607 (b) 6422 4295 4607 (c) 6424 2295 4607 (d) 6242 2954 607
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink Ants ___ Seven Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eight (b) Under (c) Tea (d) Ice
- 13.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) swing (b) snake (c) lake (d) wake
- 15.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a list of numbers (d) a very long word
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) string (b) smell (c) lake (d) tea
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) one with no picture (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
- 18.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they need no learning (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
- 19.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) MVEMJSUN (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
- 20.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) south (b) west (c) north (d) east
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 248903870891. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2849 0387 0891 (b) 2489 0338 70891 (c) 2489 0387 091 (d) 2489 0387 0891
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jeeps ___ Mum Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Funny (b) Red (c) Nani (d) Wise
- 24.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 792638349031. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7926 3834 9031 (b) 7296 3834 9031 (c) 7926 3834 49031 (d) 7926 3834 031
- 26.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) what each letter means (c) its spelling backwards (d) nothing else
- 27.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tomato, jalebi, inkpot, kite is “___ Jolly Inside Kind”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tiny (b) Nani (c) Young (d) Grab
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Ants Pink Lazy Eat (b) Lazy Pink Ants Eat (c) Lazy Eat Pink Ants (d) Eat Lazy Pink Ants
- 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: ice cream, doll, spoon, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IDSF (b) DISF (c) FSDI (d) DSFI
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for radio, ice cream, apple, jeep is “Rani Ink Aunty ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Owls (b) Up (c) Jump (d) Silly
- 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, key, needle, ice cream, doll is “My Kind Nani ___ Dance”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Ice (c) Vines (d) Eight
- 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 7064469110. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 706 469 110 (b) 706 446 9110 (c) 706 444 69110 (d) 706 446 9101
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Rani Lazy Frogs (b) Sing Lazy Frogs Rani (c) Rani Sing Lazy Frogs (d) Frogs Lazy Sing Rani
- 34.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 1 and 947
- 36.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 37.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) smell (b) sock (c) chain (d) lake
- 38.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LEPA (b) APLE (c) ELPA (d) LPAE
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: fan, pillow, onion, umbrella. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PFOU (b) POUF (c) UOPF (d) FPOU
- 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
Answer key
- 469 560 558
- sun
- True
- splitting into groups
- 6
- sun
- Green Old Love
- Big
- April
- a list in a fixed order
- 6424 2295 4607
- Ice
- first letters as a word
- swing
- initials match the list
- lake
- a silly, funny one
- one word holds a list
- MVEMJSUN
- True
- west
- 2489 0387 0891
- Funny
- True
- 7926 3834 9031
- what each letter means
- Tiny
- Eat Lazy Pink Ants
- IDSF
- Jump
- Ice
- 706 446 9110
- Rani Sing Lazy Frogs
- False
- 19 and 47
- a rhyme
- smell
- ELPA
- FPOU
- a first-letter sentence
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