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.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the rainbow colours (c) the planets (d) the months
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty My Funny Jolly (b) Jolly Funny My Aunty (c) Funny My Aunty Jolly (d) Funny Jolly My Aunty
- 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) JFMA (c) FJMA (d) AMFJ
- 4.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) splitting into groups (c) saying it backwards (d) writing it twice
- 5.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 6.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) rake (c) shake (d) run
- 7.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 8.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 9.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) they need no learning (c) one word holds a list (d) they are longer
- 10.🎵 Which word does “key” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) bell (c) tree (d) rain
- 11.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a list of numbers (c) a rhyme about cats (d) initials match the list
- 12.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) star (c) world (d) planet
- 13.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) again (c) twice (d) fast
- 14.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) means something to you (b) is very long (c) has no pattern (d) changes daily
- 15.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) block (b) shake (c) run (d) ring
- 16.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for watch, ball, onion, duck is “Wise Big ___ Dad”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Inside (b) Grab (c) Under (d) Owls
- 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vines ___ Big Goats Yaks Owls Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Inside (b) Vines (c) Aunty (d) Wise
- 19.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 20.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) collection (b) evaporation (c) precipitation (d) condensation
- 22.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, candle, parrot, doll, van is “My ___ Pigs Dance Vines”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eat (b) Jump (c) Red (d) Cats
- 23.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) its spelling backwards
- 24.📅 The digits 05121955 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/12/1955 (b) 051/219/55 (c) 0512/19/55 (d) 05/1219/55
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 8938286383. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 893 828 683 (b) 893 828 6383 (c) 893 822 86383 (d) 898 328 6383
- 26.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) known (c) true (d) clear
- 27.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 28.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) sun (d) night
- 29.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 8 (N) stand for? (a) Venus (b) Neptune (c) Jupiter (d) Uranus
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “___ Wise Grab”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Frogs (b) Sing (c) Every (d) Ink
- 31.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 32.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, fan, radio? (a) Runs Frogs Kites (b) Frogs Kites Runs (c) Kites Frogs Runs (d) Frogs Runs Kites
- 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pencil, apple, jeep? (a) Pink All Jump (b) All Jump Pink (c) All Pink Jump (d) Jump All Pink
- 35.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a picture (c) a maths sum (d) a list in a fixed order
- 36.📅 The digits 09101970 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 09/1019/70 (b) 0910/19/70 (c) 09/10/1970 (d) 091/019/70
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) WSEN (c) ENSW (d) NESW
- 38.🎵 Which word does “won” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) king (c) clock (d) cake
- 39.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 40.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “___ Ice Bunny Green Yaks Only Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bakes (b) Vines (c) Wins (d) Crazy
Answer key
- the rainbow colours
- Jolly Funny My Aunty
- JFMA
- splitting into groups
- chunking
- run
- 2
- first letters as a word
- one word holds a list
- tree
- initials match the list
- one
- more
- means something to you
- ring
- 4
- Owls
- Inside
- True
- False
- precipitation
- Cats
- what each letter means
- 05/12/1955
- 893 828 6383
- true
- 2
- sun
- Neptune
- Sing
- 5
- 5
- Kites Frogs Runs
- Pink All Jump
- a list in a fixed order
- 09/10/1970
- NESW
- sun
- False
- Vines
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