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 400228490. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 402 284 90 (b) 400 228 490 (c) 040 228 490 (d) 440 022 8490
- 2.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for jug, apple, vase, sock, watch is “Jolly Ants ___ Seven Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Goats (b) Ants (c) Cook (d) Very
- 4.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) clock (d) night
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 1409181059. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 109 181 059 (b) 140 918 1059 (c) 114 091 81059 (d) 149 018 1059
- 6.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 7.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 1 (N) stand for? (a) east (b) north (c) south (d) west
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a very long one (c) one with no picture (d) a dull, plain one
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Every Pink All (b) All Pink Lions Every (c) Lions Pink All Every (d) Every Lions Pink All
- 10.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 4 (M) stand for? (a) Jupiter (b) Venus (c) Mercury (d) Mars
- 11.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 12.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) free (c) long (d) fast
- 13.🔢 You want to remember the number 213221347. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 213 221 347 (b) 213 221 47 (c) 213 212 347 (d) 213 221 1347
- 14.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 15.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) pupa (b) larva (c) egg (d) adult
- 16.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) there is no list (c) you like spelling (d) the letters make no word
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ladder, apple, drum? (a) Aunty Dance Lions (b) Aunty Lions Dance (c) Lions Aunty Dance (d) Dance Aunty Lions
- 18.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 19.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) its spelling backwards
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Rani Love Frogs (b) Silly Love Frogs Rani (c) Frogs Love Silly Rani (d) Rani Silly Love Frogs
- 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) sing (b) snake (c) ton (d) tea
- 22.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 23.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) WGS (c) GWS (d) SWG
- 25.True or false: “lane” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) clear (c) known (d) right
- 27.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) backwards (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
- 28.🔢 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
- 29.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: whistle, bucket, candle? (a) Wise Bakes Cook (b) Cook Bakes Wise (c) Bakes Cook Wise (d) Bakes Wise Cook
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Fly Mice All Jolly (b) Fly Jolly Mice All (c) All Mice Fly Jolly (d) Jolly Fly Mice All
- 32.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the planets
- 33.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: wallet, fan, needle, rope, candle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FNRCW (b) WFNRC (c) FWNRC (d) CRNFW
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) free (b) lake (c) key (d) light
- 36.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink ___ Inside Silly Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eat (b) Lions (c) Inside (d) Ants
- 37.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they are longer (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
- 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bun (b) fun (c) done (d) light
- 39.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) January (b) February (c) April (d) March
- 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) ended (b) done (c) learnt (d) over
Answer key
- 400 228 490
- 4
- Very
- night
- 140 918 1059
- first letters as a word
- north
- a silly, funny one
- Every Lions Pink All
- Mars
- an acronym
- free
- 213 221 347
- splitting into groups
- adult
- the letters make no word
- Lions Aunty Dance
- chunking
- what each letter means
- Rani Silly Love Frogs
- ton
- chunking
- 8
- SWG
- True
- true
- in the same order
- three chunks, not ten
- True
- Wise Bakes Cook
- Jolly Fly Mice All
- the rainbow colours
- 5
- WFNRC
- lake
- Ants
- one word holds a list
- light
- January
- done
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