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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 545 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 1 (V) stand for? (a) blue (b) violet (c) green (d) red
  2. 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Eat Pigs Cook (b) Cats Pigs Cook Eat (c) Cook Pigs Cats Eat (d) Eat Cats Pigs Cook
  3. 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Very Inside Bakes Goats Young ___ Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Up (c) Kind (d) Tiny
  4. 4.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 2 (L) stand for? (a) larva (b) adult (c) egg (d) pupa
  5. 5.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) saying it once quietly (b) a beat or a tune (c) writing it tiny (d) no rhythm at all
  6. 6.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only numbers (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only pictures (d) nothing at all
  7. 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eat Crazy Crazy Pink (b) Crazy Pink Crazy Eat (c) Crazy Eat Pink Crazy (d) Eat Crazy Pink Crazy
  8. 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a very long one (c) a dull, plain one (d) a silly, funny one
  9. 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Every Cats Play ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bakes (b) Tea (c) Ink (d) Cats
  10. 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sock (b) block (c) rock (d) shell
  11. 11.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  13. 13.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) white (b) saffron (c) green
  14. 14.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
  15. 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECCP (b) CEPC (c) ECPC (d) CPCE
  16. 16.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its colour (c) its spelling backwards (d) what each letter means
  17. 17.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a memory trick (c) a long book (d) a kind of pen
  18. 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bright (b) lake (c) train (d) ton
  19. 19.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  20. 20.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Southern (b) Atlantic (c) Indian (d) Pacific
  21. 21.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 613209517. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 613 295 17 (b) 613 209 5177 (c) 613 209 517 (d) 613 205 917
  23. 23.📅 The digits 04122023 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 04/12/2023 (b) 04/1220/23 (c) 0412/20/23 (d) 041/220/23
  24. 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: wallet, orange, mango, goat. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OMGW (b) WOMG (c) GMOW (d) OWMG
  25. 25.True or false: “rock” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs Jump Mice All (b) All Mice Frogs Jump (c) Frogs Mice All Jump (d) Jump Frogs Mice All
  27. 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 6132551829. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 613 255 1892 (b) 132 551 829 (c) 613 255 1829 (d) 613 255 18229
  28. 28.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LEPA (b) APLE (c) LPAE (d) ELPA
  29. 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, anchor, igloo? (a) Aunty Ice Nani (b) Nani Aunty Ice (c) Aunty Nani Ice (d) Ice Aunty Nani
  30. 30.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) king (c) clock (d) night
  31. 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “___ Wins Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Jump (b) Yum (c) Silly (d) Dogs
  32. 32.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is printed bigger (b) it is a smaller number (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it has fewer digits
  33. 33.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) again (b) more (c) twice (d) fast
  34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: nest, banana, mirror? (a) My Bunny Neat (b) Bunny My Neat (c) Bunny Neat My (d) Neat Bunny My
  35. 35.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) changes daily (c) is very long (d) means something to you
  36. 36.🎵 Which word does “ton” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) night (c) tree (d) sun
  37. 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) VEMJSUNM (c) VMEMJSUN (d) NUSJMEVM
  38. 38.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violin, candle, apple, rose is “___ Crazy Aunty Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Funny (c) Mum (d) Vines
  39. 39.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  40. 40.🎵 Which word does “bright” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) cake (d) bell

Answer key

  1. violet
  2. Eat Cats Pigs Cook
  3. Only
  4. larva
  5. a beat or a tune
  6. numbers and letter lists
  7. Eat Crazy Pink Crazy
  8. a silly, funny one
  9. Cats
  10. shell
  11. False
  12. 2
  13. green
  14. chunking
  15. ECPC
  16. what each letter means
  17. a memory trick
  18. lake
  19. 9
  20. Southern
  21. True
  22. 613 209 517
  23. 04/12/2023
  24. WOMG
  25. False
  26. Jump Frogs Mice All
  27. 613 255 1829
  28. ELPA
  29. Nani Aunty Ice
  30. night
  31. Silly
  32. three chunks, not ten
  33. more
  34. Neat Bunny My
  35. means something to you
  36. sun
  37. MVEMJSUN
  38. Vines
  39. 5
  40. night

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