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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 454 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 2.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the oceans (d) the planets
  3. 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. 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. 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. 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. 7.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
  8. 8.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  9. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 19.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) plane (b) spell (c) run (d) key
  20. 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. 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. 22.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  23. 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. 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. 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. 26.True or false: “run” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
  27. 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. 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. 29.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  30. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 40.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) thing (c) smell (d) ring

Answer key

  1. say it aloud often
  2. the rainbow colours
  3. 06/11/1965
  4. 21/07/1995
  5. 3493 3097 8721
  6. a silly, funny one
  7. first letters as a word
  8. False
  9. 12/01/1994
  10. one word holds a list
  11. Tiny
  12. Uncle
  13. Lazy
  14. KFJD
  15. NESW
  16. Funny
  17. Seven Wins Goats
  18. Very Love Seven
  19. plane
  20. Sing Wins Goats
  21. Very
  22. 5
  23. True
  24. AANSAEA
  25. in the same order
  26. True
  27. 483 495 5792
  28. more
  29. 4
  30. means something to you
  31. Fly Cook Inside
  32. a beat or a tune
  33. three chunks, not ten
  34. 05/02/1992
  35. Wet Play Jump
  36. MSAU
  37. a first-letter sentence
  38. Silly Wet Grab
  39. 9432 6562 0697
  40. smell

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