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.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Antarctica (b) North America (c) Australia (d) Africa
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) VIBGYOR (c) IVBGYOR (d) IBGYORV
- 3.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) clear (c) true (d) known
- 4.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) sock (b) knee (c) make (d) sing
- 5.📝 A list to learn, in order: parrot, candle, jug, guava, igloo. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IGJCP (b) PCJGI (c) CJGIP (d) CPJGI
- 6.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Seven Lions Frogs Red (b) Seven Red Lions Frogs (c) Frogs Lions Seven Red (d) Red Seven Lions Frogs
- 8.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ESWN (c) ENSW (d) NESW
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nine Sing Wet (b) Wet Sing Every Nine (c) Every Sing Wet Nine (d) Nine Every Sing Wet
- 11.True or false: “shake” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 12.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 14.🔤 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
- 15.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) backwards (c) in the same order (d) in ABC order
- 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) bee (b) train (c) spell (d) shock
- 18.📅 The digits 14072001 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 14/07/2001 (b) 140/720/01 (c) 1407/20/01 (d) 14/0720/01
- 19.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 2002025496. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 200 220 5496 (b) 200 202 5496 (c) 200 202 54496 (d) 200 225 496
- 22.📅 The digits 11021952 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 11/0219/52 (b) 11/02/1952 (c) 1102/19/52 (d) 110/219/52
- 23.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) stem (b) leaf (c) flower (d) root
- 24.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 25.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) indigo
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: lamp, parrot, orange? (a) Pink Lions Only (b) Only Pink Lions (c) Lions Pink Only (d) Pink Only Lions
- 27.📅 The digits 18082023 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1808/20/23 (b) 180/820/23 (c) 18/0820/23 (d) 18/08/2023
- 28.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 29.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) has no pattern (c) means something to you (d) changes daily
- 30.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
- 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for coconut, banana, anchor, frog is “___ Bakes All Funny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Frogs (b) Crazy (c) Nine (d) Grab
- 32.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vans Ice Big Goats ___ Old Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nani (b) Dad (c) Yum (d) Green
- 34.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 3 (E) stand for? (a) Earth (b) Neptune (c) Mercury (d) Venus
- 35.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) an acronym (b) a mind map (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 36.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) splitting into groups
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: monkey, jalebi, lemon? (a) Lazy Jump Mum (b) Jump Mum Lazy (c) Mum Jump Lazy (d) Jump Lazy Mum
- 38.✏️ 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
- 39.🔢 You want to remember the number 971206876. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 791 206 876 (b) 971 068 76 (c) 971 206 8766 (d) 971 206 876
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: watch, doll, net? (a) Wise Dad Nani (b) Nani Dad Wise (c) Dad Nani Wise (d) Dad Wise Nani
Answer key
- Australia
- VIBGYOR
- true
- sing
- PCJGI
- chunking
- Red Seven Lions Frogs
- True
- NESW
- Nine Every Sing Wet
- False
- False
- 4
- ELPA
- first letters as a word
- in the same order
- shock
- 14/07/2001
- True
- what each letter means
- 200 202 5496
- 11/02/1952
- stem
- 5
- green
- Lions Pink Only
- 18/08/2023
- chunking
- means something to you
- JFMA
- Crazy
- 3
- Yum
- Earth
- chunking
- splitting into groups
- Mum Jump Lazy
- initials match the list
- 971 206 876
- Wise Dad Nani
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