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.📅 The digits 20082007 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2008/20/07 (b) 20/08/2007 (c) 200/820/07 (d) 20/0820/07
- 2.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Arctic (c) Southern (d) Pacific
- 3.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Arctic (c) Atlantic (d) Indian
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty Mum Funny Jolly (b) Jolly Funny Mum Aunty (c) Funny Jolly Mum Aunty (d) Funny Mum Aunty Jolly
- 5.📝 A list to learn, in order: ant, watch, fan, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PFWA (b) AWFP (c) WAFP (d) WFPA
- 6.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 7.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: orange, vase, candle? (a) Cook Vines Owls (b) Vines Cook Owls (c) Owls Vines Cook (d) Vines Owls Cook
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in any order (c) in ABC order (d) in the same order
- 10.🔢 You want to remember the number 9570450160. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 957 045 160 (b) 957 045 0160 (c) 995 704 50160 (d) 957 054 0160
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for net, guava, umbrella, violin, spoon is “Neat Grab Uncle ___ Sing”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Vines (b) Goats (c) Cats (d) Red
- 12.📝 A list to learn, in order: onion, mango, igloo, coconut, van. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MICVO (b) OMICV (c) VCIMO (d) MOICV
- 13.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a list of numbers (d) initials match the list
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) over (b) ended (c) learnt (d) done
- 15.🔢 You want to remember the number 437538561548. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4375 5385 61548 (b) 4373 8561 548 (c) 4375 3856 1548 (d) 4357 3856 1548
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, ball, igloo? (a) Silly Big Ink (b) Big Silly Ink (c) Ink Big Silly (d) Big Ink Silly
- 17.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 19.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) April (b) January (c) February (d) March
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, fan, ant? (a) Ants Fly Big (b) Fly Big Ants (c) Big Fly Ants (d) Fly Ants Big
- 21.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they need no learning
- 22.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) tree (c) rain (d) king
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “___ Eight Silly Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Toys (b) Neat (c) Fly (d) Green
- 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: mirror, vase, spoon, jeep, bucket. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MVSJB (b) VMSJB (c) BJSVM (d) VSJBM
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 7493059401. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 493 059 401 (b) 749 305 94401 (c) 749 309 5401 (d) 749 305 9401
- 26.🔢 You want to remember the number 909542083350. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9095 4208 33500 (b) 9095 4280 3350 (c) 9095 4208 3350 (d) 9095 4083 350
- 27.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Antarctica (b) Africa (c) North America (d) Asia
- 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, ball, owl, parrot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BWOP (b) BOPW (c) POBW (d) WBOP
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Love Eat (b) Eat Love Pink All (c) Love Pink All Eat (d) Love Eat Pink All
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “___ Ice Big Grab Yum Old Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ink (b) Jeeps (c) Very (d) Kind
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Grab Seven (b) Seven Wins Grab (c) Grab Wins Seven (d) Wins Seven Grab
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) sea (b) chain (c) three (d) bake
- 33.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) NESW (c) ESWN (d) ENSW
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, pillow, anchor, tomato, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NPATF (b) FTAPN (c) PATFN (d) PNATF
- 35.📝 A list to learn, in order: needle, owl, shoe, monkey, ball. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BMSON (b) ONSMB (c) NOSMB (d) OSMBN
- 36.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
- 37.True or false: “thing” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🔢 You want to remember the number 101674242207. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1016 7742 42207 (b) 1016 7424 2207 (c) 1106 7424 2207 (d) 1016 7424 207
- 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SLFR (b) RSLF (c) SRLF (d) FLSR
- 40.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
Answer key
- 20/08/2007
- Pacific
- Atlantic
- Jolly Funny Mum Aunty
- AWFP
- 8
- an acronym
- Owls Vines Cook
- in the same order
- 957 045 0160
- Vines
- OMICV
- initials match the list
- done
- 4375 3856 1548
- Silly Big Ink
- True
- 7
- April
- Big Fly Ants
- one word holds a list
- rain
- Neat
- MVSJB
- 749 305 9401
- 9095 4208 3350
- Africa
- WBOP
- Eat Love Pink All
- Very
- Seven Wins Grab
- bake
- NESW
- NPATF
- NOSMB
- the rainbow colours
- True
- 1016 7424 2207
- RSLF
- 5
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