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 list to learn, in order: ball, tiger, rope, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LRTB (b) TBRL (c) TRLB (d) BTRL
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAAE (b) AEASNAA (c) ANSAEAA (d) AANSAEA
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, jalebi, whistle? (a) Jolly Cook Wise (b) Wise Jolly Cook (c) Jolly Wise Cook (d) Cook Jolly Wise
- 4.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 3 (M) stand for? (a) March (b) January (c) April (d) February
- 5.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) known (c) true (d) clear
- 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ESWN (c) ENSW (d) NESW
- 7.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Antarctica (b) Asia (c) Australia (d) Africa
- 8.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) white (b) saffron (c) green
- 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) kite (b) key (c) wing (d) lane
- 10.🎵 Which word does “lock” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) sun (d) clock
- 11.🎵 Which word does “sing” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) king (c) night (d) tree
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) three (b) spring (c) knee (d) sock
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a very long one (c) a silly, funny one (d) a dull, plain one
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) well (b) spell (c) shell (d) main
- 15.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “___ Vans Eight My Jump Silly Up Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pink (b) My (c) Green (d) Big
- 16.📅 The digits 08122015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 08/12/2015 (b) 0812/20/15 (c) 08/1220/15 (d) 081/220/15
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pigs All Ink ___ Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Silly (b) Nani (c) Dogs (d) Rani
- 18.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
- 19.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they are always true (b) they are longer (c) sound patterns stick (d) they need no practice
- 20.📅 The digits 15121963 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 151/219/63 (b) 15/12/1963 (c) 15/1219/63 (d) 1512/19/63
- 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 366987053. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 366 987 05 (b) 366 987 053 (c) 366 987 035 (d) 366 988 7053
- 22.📝 A list to learn, in order: guava, fan, sock, net. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FGSN (b) FSNG (c) GFSN (d) NSFG
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Eight Lions Pigs Ants (b) Lions Eight Pigs Ants (c) Lions Pigs Ants Eight (d) Ants Pigs Lions Eight
- 24.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 1 (A) stand for? (a) Europe (b) Africa (c) Australia (d) Asia
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “___ Ants Ink Silly All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Every (b) Rani (c) Pigs (d) Frogs
- 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) tea (b) fight (c) rock (d) lane
- 27.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 28.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) FMAJ (c) JFMA (d) AMFJ
- 29.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a long book (c) a kind of pen (d) a memory trick
- 30.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 351930945437. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5319 3094 5437 (b) 3519 3094 54337 (c) 3519 3094 5437 (d) 3519 3045 437
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Silly Grab (b) Wise Grab Silly (c) Silly Wise Grab (d) Grab Wise Silly
- 33.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) pupa (b) adult (c) larva (d) egg
- 34.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 35.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) initials match the list (c) a list of numbers (d) a very long word
- 36.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) VMEMJSUN (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VEMJSUNM
- 37.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a list in a fixed order (b) a maths sum (c) a long story (d) a picture
- 38.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) one word holds a list (c) they need no learning (d) they are longer
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) kite (c) well (d) smell
- 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
Answer key
- BTRL
- AANSAEA
- Cook Jolly Wise
- March
- true
- NESW
- Africa
- white
- key
- clock
- king
- sock
- a silly, funny one
- main
- My
- 08/12/2015
- Silly
- the rainbow colours
- sound patterns stick
- 15/12/1963
- 366 987 053
- GFSN
- Eight Lions Pigs Ants
- Asia
- Pigs
- fight
- 7
- JFMA
- a memory trick
- 3
- 3519 3094 5437
- Silly Wise Grab
- adult
- 6
- initials match the list
- MVEMJSUN
- a list in a fixed order
- one word holds a list
- kite
- an acronym
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