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: doll, owl, radio, kite. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DORK (b) KROD (c) ORKD (d) ODRK
- 2.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 194 and 7 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 1 and 947
- 3.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) nothing else (c) its spelling backwards (d) its colour
- 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for jalebi, banana, flute, anchor is “Jolly Bakes Fly ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ants (b) Red (c) Old (d) Crazy
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 910153962074. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9011 5396 2074 (b) 9101 5396 207 (c) 9101 5396 20744 (d) 9101 5396 2074
- 6.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 7.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 8.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) bright (b) plane (c) swing (d) bite
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for guava, fan, violin, mango is “___ Funny Very Mice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Big (b) Uncle (c) Kids (d) Grab
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) ENSW (c) WSEN (d) NESW
- 12.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) songs (c) steps (d) tricks
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Grab Sing (b) Wet Sing Grab (c) Sing Wet Grab (d) Grab Wet Sing
- 14.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a type of number (c) first letters as a word (d) a long poem
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mum ___ Every My Jolly Sing Uncle Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Fly (b) Goats (c) Tiny (d) Very
- 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) VMEMJSUN (c) NUSJMEVM (d) VEMJSUNM
- 18.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shake (b) make (c) fight (d) bake
- 19.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) chain (b) shake (c) smell (d) bite
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) ASIAP (c) PAISA (d) APISA
- 21.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 22.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) wake (c) main (d) snake
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: mango, ball, watch? (a) Wise Bakes My (b) Bakes My Wise (c) Bakes Wise My (d) My Bakes Wise
- 24.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in ABC order (c) in any order (d) in the same order
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: flute, shoe, candle? (a) Sing Cook Frogs (b) Sing Frogs Cook (c) Cook Sing Frogs (d) Frogs Sing Cook
- 26.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) night (d) king
- 27.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty My Funny Jolly (b) Funny Jolly My Aunty (c) Funny My Aunty Jolly (d) Jolly Funny My Aunty
- 29.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is printed bigger (b) it has fewer digits (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it is a smaller number
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rake (b) lake (c) bake (d) spell
- 31.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
- 32.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Very Every Mice Jump Seven ___ Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) Uncle (c) Yaks (d) Nani
- 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, flute, van, anchor. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FCVA (b) FVAC (c) AVFC (d) CFVA
- 34.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) you like spelling (c) the letters make no word (d) the list is short
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 1599010315. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 159 901 0351 (b) 159 901 0315 (c) 159 910 315 (d) 155 990 10315
- 36.✏️ 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
- 37.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bright (b) swing (c) snake (d) block
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, duck, anchor? (a) Dogs Jolly Ants (b) Jolly Dogs Ants (c) Dogs Ants Jolly (d) Ants Dogs Jolly
- 40.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
Answer key
- DORK
- 19 and 47
- what each letter means
- Ants
- 9101 5396 2074
- a rhyme
- a first-letter sentence
- 2
- plane
- Grab
- NESW
- tricks
- Sing Wet Grab
- first letters as a word
- 6
- Very
- MVEMJSUN
- fight
- chain
- PAISA
- 5
- main
- My Bakes Wise
- in the same order
- Frogs Sing Cook
- night
- chunking
- Jolly Funny My Aunty
- three chunks, not ten
- spell
- False
- Uncle
- CFVA
- the letters make no word
- 159 901 0315
- a silly, funny one
- 2
- swing
- Jolly Dogs Ants
- 6
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