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.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wet Silly Eight Neat (b) Eight Silly Wet Neat (c) Eight Neat Silly Wet (d) Neat Eight Silly Wet
- 3.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) night (b) cake (c) sun (d) tree
- 4.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the months (c) the oceans (d) the planets
- 5.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 4 (C) stand for? (a) condensation (b) precipitation (c) evaporation (d) collection
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, van, pillow? (a) Very Pink Crazy (b) Very Crazy Pink (c) Crazy Very Pink (d) Pink Very Crazy
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.📅 The digits 28031968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 280/319/68 (b) 2803/19/68 (c) 28/0319/68 (d) 28/03/1968
- 9.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) world (c) planet (d) star
- 10.True or false: “bee” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 12.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) the list is short (c) the letters make no word (d) you like spelling
- 13.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Every Pink Cats (b) Every Cats Pink Cats (c) Every Cats Cats Pink (d) Cats Pink Cats Every
- 15.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) NESW (b) ESWN (c) WSEN (d) ENSW
- 18.🎵 Which word does “shell” rhyme with? (a) night (b) cake (c) bell (d) rain
- 19.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) read it once silently (b) change it each day (c) never say it (d) say it aloud often
- 20.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 21.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they need no learning (c) one word holds a list (d) they always rhyme
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: tiger, pillow, jug? (a) Pigs Toys Jeeps (b) Toys Pigs Jeeps (c) Jeeps Pigs Toys (d) Pigs Jeeps Toys
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: glass, owl, radio? (a) Owls Green Runs (b) Green Owls Runs (c) Owls Runs Green (d) Runs Owls Green
- 24.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) bun (b) sock (c) spell (d) fun
- 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: anchor, key, nest, tent. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KANT (b) KNTA (c) TNKA (d) AKNT
- 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) ROYGBIV (d) IVBGYOR
- 28.📅 The digits 16012020 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 160/120/20 (b) 16/01/2020 (c) 16/0120/20 (d) 1601/20/20
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Lions Frogs Rani (b) Frogs Lions Sing Rani (c) Sing Rani Lions Frogs (d) Rani Sing Lions Frogs
- 30.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) only pictures (c) nothing at all (d) only numbers
- 31.📝 A list to learn, in order: flute, duck, umbrella, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LUDF (b) DFUL (c) FDUL (d) DULF
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a dull, plain one (c) one with no picture (d) a very long one
- 33.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) its spelling backwards
- 34.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) WSG (c) GWS (d) SWG
- 35.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 1 (R) stand for? (a) stem (b) flower (c) root (d) leaf
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) All My Funny Jeeps (b) Jeeps Funny My All (c) Funny My All Jeeps (d) Funny Jeeps My All
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Seven Goats (b) Goats Wise Seven (c) Wise Goats Seven (d) Seven Wise Goats
- 38.True or false: “cane” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: jug, whistle, needle, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PNWJ (b) JWNP (c) WJNP (d) WNPJ
- 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
Answer key
- chunking
- Neat Eight Silly Wet
- tree
- the rainbow colours
- collection
- Crazy Very Pink
- 4
- 28/03/1968
- one
- False
- 7
- the letters make no word
- False
- Every Cats Pink Cats
- False
- first letters as a word
- NESW
- bell
- say it aloud often
- 6
- one word holds a list
- Toys Pigs Jeeps
- Green Owls Runs
- spell
- AKNT
- a first-letter sentence
- VIBGYOR
- 16/01/2020
- Rani Sing Lions Frogs
- numbers and letter lists
- FDUL
- a silly, funny one
- what each letter means
- SWG
- root
- Jeeps Funny My All
- Seven Wise Goats
- True
- JWNP
- a rhyme
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