Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 466 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) VIBGYOR (c) IBGYORV (d) ROYGBIV
2. 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ladder, whistle, rope? (a) Wise Lazy Red (b) Wise Red Lazy (c) Red Wise Lazy (d) Lazy Wise Red
3. 3.📅 The digits 19042004 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 19/0420/04 (b) 19/04/2004 (c) 190/420/04 (d) 1904/20/04
4. 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 9551114149. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 955 111 419 (b) 955 111 4194 (c) 955 511 14149 (d) 955 111 4149
5. 5.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they are longer (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
6. 6.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) bell (c) king (d) rain
7. 7.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bright (b) string (c) kite (d) fight
8. 8.📝 A list to learn, in order: ball, key, monkey, violin, inkpot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KBMVI (b) KMVIB (c) BKMVI (d) IVMKB
9. 9.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a times-table rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
10. 10.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Southern (c) Atlantic (d) Pacific
12. 12.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: “train” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) the list is short (c) you like spelling (d) there is no list
15. 15.True or false: “white” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: net, pillow, monkey, guava, rose. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PNMGR (b) RGMPN (c) PMGRN (d) NPMGR
17. 17.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
18. 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a dull, plain one (c) a very long one (d) one with no picture
19. 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Mice Aunty Jeeps (b) Funny Jeeps Mice Aunty (c) Jeeps Funny Mice Aunty (d) Aunty Mice Funny Jeeps
20. 20.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) nothing at all (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym word
21. 21.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) splitting into groups (c) writing it twice (d) reading very fast
22. 22.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
23. 23.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) east (b) south (c) west (d) north
24. 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Runs Sing Love Funny (b) Sing Love Funny Runs (c) Funny Love Sing Runs (d) Sing Runs Love Funny
25. 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Lazy Play Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jolly (b) Lazy (c) Green (d) Every
26. 26.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
27. 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 277318342. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 277 318 34 (b) 277 318 342 (c) 277 381 342 (d) 277 331 8342
28. 28.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) PAISA (c) APISA (d) ASIAP
29. 29.📅 The digits 22112016 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2211/20/16 (b) 22/1120/16 (c) 22/11/2016 (d) 221/120/16
30. 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for drum, spoon, cat, onion, radio is “Dogs Seven Cook Old ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Uncle (b) Sing (c) Frogs (d) Rani
31. 31.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 and 947 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 19 and 47
32. 32.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Every Cats ___ Cook”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Every (b) Play (c) Aunty (d) Yaks
33. 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, onion, parrot? (a) Owls Cats Pigs (b) Pigs Owls Cats (c) Owls Pigs Cats (d) Cats Owls Pigs
34. 34.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Atlantic (c) Southern (d) Indian
35. 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) shock (b) won (c) white (d) thing
36. 36.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) APLE (c) ELPA (d) LEPA
37. 37.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a long story (c) a maths sum (d) a list in a fixed order
38. 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: onion, net, igloo? (a) Nine Ice Owls (b) Nine Owls Ice (c) Owls Nine Ice (d) Ice Nine Owls
39. 39.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.✏️ 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) Frogs Love Silly Rani (c) Rani Silly Love Frogs (d) Silly Love Frogs Rani

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