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.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) say it aloud often (b) never say it (c) change it each day (d) read it once silently
- 2.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the oceans (d) the planets
- 3.📅 The digits 06111965 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0611/19/65 (b) 061/119/65 (c) 06/1119/65 (d) 06/11/1965
- 4.📅 The digits 21071995 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 210/719/95 (b) 21/07/1995 (c) 21/0719/95 (d) 2107/19/95
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 349330978721. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 3493 3079 8721 (b) 3493 3097 8721 (c) 3493 3097 88721 (d) 3493 3097 872
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a silly, funny one (c) a very long one (d) one with no picture
- 7.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 8.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 9.📅 The digits 12011994 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 12/01/1994 (b) 12/0119/94 (c) 120/119/94 (d) 1201/19/94
- 10.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they need no learning
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for goat, sock, pillow, tent, umpire is “Goats Sing Pink ___ Up”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jeeps (b) Cats (c) Owls (d) Tiny
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vans Eight Mum Jump Sing ___ Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tea (b) Crazy (c) Ants (d) Uncle
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Every ___ Pigs All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eight (b) Frogs (c) Cook (d) Lazy
- 14.📝 A list to learn, in order: kite, fan, jeep, drum. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FJDK (b) DJFK (c) KFJD (d) FKJD
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) NESW (c) WSEN (d) ENSW
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tent, frog, doll, candle, sock is “Toys ___ Dance Cats Seven”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bunny (b) Funny (c) Rani (d) Yum
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wins Seven (b) Wins Goats Seven (c) Wins Seven Goats (d) Seven Wins Goats
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: vase, lamp, sock? (a) Seven Love Very (b) Love Very Seven (c) Love Seven Very (d) Very Love Seven
- 19.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) plane (b) spell (c) run (d) key
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Sing Goats (b) Wins Goats Sing (c) Goats Wins Sing (d) Sing Wins Goats
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “___ Ink Bunny Green Yaks Old Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Very (b) Wise (c) Jeeps (d) Pigs
- 22.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 23.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AEASNAA (b) AANSAAE (c) ANSAEAA (d) AANSAEA
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) backwards
- 26.True or false: “run” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 4834955792. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 483 495 5972 (b) 488 349 55792 (c) 834 955 792 (d) 483 495 5792
- 28.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) again (c) fast (d) twice
- 29.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 30.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) has no pattern (c) means something to you (d) changes daily
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: fan, coconut, igloo? (a) Cook Fly Inside (b) Cook Inside Fly (c) Inside Cook Fly (d) Fly Cook Inside
- 32.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) writing it tiny (b) saying it once quietly (c) a beat or a tune (d) no rhythm at all
- 33.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is printed bigger
- 34.📅 The digits 05021992 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0502/19/92 (b) 05/0219/92 (c) 050/219/92 (d) 05/02/1992
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: whistle, pencil, jeep? (a) Jump Play Wet (b) Play Wet Jump (c) Play Jump Wet (d) Wet Play Jump
- 36.📝 A list to learn, in order: mango, shoe, apple, umbrella. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SMAU (b) UASM (c) SAUM (d) MSAU
- 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Grab Wet Silly (b) Wet Silly Grab (c) Silly Wet Grab (d) Wet Grab Silly
- 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 943265620697. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9432 6652 0697 (b) 9432 6562 0697 (c) 9943 2656 20697 (d) 9432 6562 067
- 40.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) thing (c) smell (d) ring
Answer key
- say it aloud often
- the rainbow colours
- 06/11/1965
- 21/07/1995
- 3493 3097 8721
- a silly, funny one
- first letters as a word
- False
- 12/01/1994
- one word holds a list
- Tiny
- Uncle
- Lazy
- KFJD
- NESW
- Funny
- Seven Wins Goats
- Very Love Seven
- plane
- Sing Wins Goats
- Very
- 5
- True
- AANSAEA
- in the same order
- True
- 483 495 5792
- more
- 4
- means something to you
- Fly Cook Inside
- a beat or a tune
- three chunks, not ten
- 05/02/1992
- Wet Play Jump
- MSAU
- a first-letter sentence
- Silly Wet Grab
- 9432 6562 0697
- smell
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