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 711538630. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 711 538 6630 (b) 711 538 603 (c) 711 538 630 (d) 711 586 30
- 2.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) in ABC order (c) in any order (d) backwards
- 4.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) changes daily (c) has no pattern (d) means something to you
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 908091499. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 908 019 499 (b) 908 099 1499 (c) 908 091 99 (d) 908 091 499
- 6.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) January (b) April (c) February (d) March
- 7.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 827984461784. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8279 8446 1784 (b) 8279 8446 11784 (c) 8798 4461 784 (d) 8297 8446 1784
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knock (b) lock (c) rock (d) ring
- 10.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 4 (M) stand for? (a) Mars (b) Saturn (c) Mercury (d) Earth
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) sing (c) ring (d) lake
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, bucket, goat? (a) Bakes Silly Green (b) Green Bakes Silly (c) Silly Bakes Green (d) Bakes Green Silly
- 13.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) fast (b) free (c) cold (d) long
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 16.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) write (c) learn (d) say
- 17.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) a mind map (c) a long story (d) an acronym
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for bucket, whistle, shoe, rose is “___ Wise Sing Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Funny (b) Tea (c) Wet (d) Big
- 20.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “___ Ice Big Goats Yum Only Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Neat (b) Vans (c) Wet (d) Dance
- 21.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the rainbow colours (c) the oceans (d) the planets
- 22.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they are longer
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink Ants Ice Sing ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) My (c) Vines (d) Red
- 24.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for rose, guava, igloo, cat, pencil is “___ Green Inside Cook Pink”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bakes (b) Red (c) Mum (d) Uncle
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 200389138. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 200 381 938 (b) 200 389 13 (c) 200 338 9138 (d) 200 389 138
- 26.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) clock (d) sun
- 27.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
- 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) train (b) knee (c) wing (d) light
- 29.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “___ Crazy Pink Cats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Very (b) Eight (c) Love (d) Kids
- 30.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they are always true (b) sound patterns stick (c) they need no practice (d) they are longer
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: flute, key, monkey? (a) Kind Fly Mice (b) Mice Kind Fly (c) Fly Kind Mice (d) Kind Mice Fly
- 32.📅 The digits 03032005 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 03/0320/05 (b) 0303/20/05 (c) 03/03/2005 (d) 030/320/05
- 33.📅 The digits 16072003 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1607/20/03 (b) 16/0720/03 (c) 16/07/2003 (d) 160/720/03
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Seven ___ Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Owls (b) Inside (c) Dogs (d) Wise
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, watch, nest? (a) Wise Nani Jolly (b) Jolly Wise Nani (c) Nani Wise Jolly (d) Wise Jolly Nani
- 36.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) the list is short (c) the letters make no word (d) you like spelling
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jump Funny My Aunty (b) Funny Jump My Aunty (c) Aunty My Funny Jump (d) Funny My Aunty Jump
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umpire, banana, watch? (a) Uncle Bunny Wins (b) Bunny Wins Uncle (c) Wins Bunny Uncle (d) Bunny Uncle Wins
- 39.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, owl, guava? (a) Owls Goats All (b) Goats Owls All (c) Owls All Goats (d) All Owls Goats
Answer key
- 711 538 630
- False
- in the same order
- means something to you
- 908 091 499
- February
- what each letter means
- 8279 8446 1784
- ring
- Mars
- lake
- Silly Bakes Green
- False
- free
- 5
- know
- False
- an acronym
- Big
- Vans
- the rainbow colours
- one word holds a list
- Aunty
- Red
- 200 389 138
- rain
- first letters as a word
- wing
- Eight
- sound patterns stick
- Fly Kind Mice
- 03/03/2005
- 16/07/2003
- Wise
- Jolly Wise Nani
- the letters make no word
- Jump Funny My Aunty
- Uncle Bunny Wins
- 5
- All Owls Goats
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