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.
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 2.📝 A list to learn, in order: doll, urn, sock, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DUSL (b) UDSL (c) USLD (d) LSUD
- 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AANSAAE (c) AEASNAA (d) AANSAEA
- 4.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) they are always true (c) they are longer (d) sound patterns stick
- 5.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bake (b) smell (c) wing (d) spring
- 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
- 7.📝 A list to learn, in order: violin, pencil, tomato, jug. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JTPV (b) PVTJ (c) PTJV (d) VPTJ
- 8.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Seven ___ Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) My (b) Lazy (c) Wins (d) Toys
- 10.True or false: “tea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for anchor, rope, drum, igloo is “Ants Rani ___ Ice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Rani (b) Cats (c) All (d) Dance
- 12.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a very long word (c) initials match the list (d) a list of numbers
- 13.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) kite (b) knee (c) bun (d) shell
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 934740098052. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9347 4009 8052 (b) 9347 0409 8052 (c) 9347 4009 80552 (d) 9347 4009 802
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: guava, nest, mirror? (a) Nani My Goats (b) My Nani Goats (c) Goats Nani My (d) Nani Goats My
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Cats Eat (b) Cats Eat Play Cats (c) Eat Cats Play Cats (d) Eat Cats Cats Play
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Silly Wet Goats (b) Wet Goats Silly (c) Wet Silly Goats (d) Goats Wet Silly
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Grab Wins Seven (b) Seven Wins Grab (c) Wins Grab Seven (d) Wins Seven Grab
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: tomato, net, glass? (a) Toys Nani Goats (b) Nani Goats Toys (c) Nani Toys Goats (d) Goats Nani Toys
- 20.🎵 Which word does “plane” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) sun (d) rain
- 21.📅 The digits 27121968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 271/219/68 (b) 27/12/1968 (c) 27/1219/68 (d) 2712/19/68
- 22.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 23.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wise Sing (b) Wise Sing Goats (c) Sing Wise Goats (d) Wise Goats Sing
- 25.True or false: “spring” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
- 27.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 1 (R) stand for? (a) stem (b) leaf (c) root (d) flower
- 28.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, sock, guava, violin. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VGSW (b) SGVW (c) WSGV (d) SWGV
- 30.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 31.✏️ 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
- 32.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: wallet, coconut, ball? (a) Cook Wise Bakes (b) Wise Cook Bakes (c) Bakes Cook Wise (d) Cook Bakes Wise
- 34.True or false: “bee” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) sea (b) spring (c) well (d) chain
- 36.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 248152439. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 241 852 439 (b) 248 152 439 (c) 248 124 39 (d) 248 152 4339
- 38.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they always rhyme (c) they need no learning (d) they are longer
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ladder, banana, watch, rope is “Love Big Wise ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Runs (b) Dogs (c) Only (d) Every
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pigs Crazy Eat (b) Eat Crazy Crazy Pigs (c) Crazy Eat Pigs Crazy (d) Eat Crazy Pigs Crazy
Answer key
- 5
- DUSL
- AANSAEA
- sound patterns stick
- bake
- in the same order
- VPTJ
- False
- Wins
- True
- Dance
- initials match the list
- bun
- 9347 4009 8052
- Goats Nani My
- Eat Cats Play Cats
- Silly Wet Goats
- Seven Wins Grab
- Toys Nani Goats
- rain
- 27/12/1968
- 4
- True
- Sing Wise Goats
- False
- the rainbow colours
- root
- splitting into groups
- WSGV
- a rhyme
- the letters make no word
- a rhyme
- Wise Cook Bakes
- True
- spring
- False
- 248 152 439
- one word holds a list
- Runs
- Eat Crazy Pigs Crazy
Free memory techniques lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/memory-techniques-for-students