Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 580 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.🎵 Which word does “white” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) night (c) tree (d) king
2. 2.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) rake (c) three (d) lake
3. 3.📅 The digits 22122006 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 221/220/06 (b) 22/1220/06 (c) 22/12/2006 (d) 2212/20/06
4. 4.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, duck, ball, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DBFC (b) FBDC (c) DCBF (d) CDBF
5. 5.🎵 Which word does “knock” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) clock (c) night (d) bell
6. 6.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
7. 7.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: NESW for the four directions, clockwise? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
8. 8.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a picture (d) a maths sum
9. 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for jeep, parrot, violin, glass is “___ Pigs Vans Grab”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mum (b) Dad (c) Bakes (d) Jump
10. 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty Mum Funny Jolly (b) Funny Jolly Mum Aunty (c) Funny Mum Aunty Jolly (d) Jolly Funny Mum Aunty
11. 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs Mice Aunty Jolly (b) Frogs Jolly Mice Aunty (c) Jolly Frogs Mice Aunty (d) Aunty Mice Frogs Jolly
12. 12.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it is printed bigger (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it has fewer digits
13. 13.🔢 You want to remember the number 5581262801. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 551 262 801 (b) 558 126 2801 (c) 558 126 8201 (d) 558 122 62801
14. 14.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for fan, tiger, net, onion is “___ Tiny Neat Only”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yum (b) Sing (c) Wet (d) Funny
15. 15.📅 The digits 07011971 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 07/0119/71 (b) 07/01/1971 (c) 070/119/71 (d) 0701/19/71
16. 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) thing (b) sing (c) done (d) ring
17. 17.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) change it each day (b) read it once silently (c) say it aloud often (d) never say it
18. 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Seven Runs Lions Fly (b) Runs Seven Lions Fly (c) Seven Lions Fly Runs (d) Fly Lions Seven Runs
19. 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) one with no picture (c) a dull, plain one (d) a very long one
20. 20.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, pencil, mirror, lemon, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SPMLF (b) PMLFS (c) FLMPS (d) PSMLF
22. 22.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) nothing at all (d) an acronym word
23. 23.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) its spelling backwards
24. 24.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) ended (c) over (d) done
25. 25.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) writing it twice
26. 26.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) date chunks (c) chunking (d) a times-table rhyme
27. 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 877584890. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 877 584 809 (b) 877 558 4890 (c) 877 584 890 (d) 877 584 90
28. 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: lemon, needle, inkpot, kite, umbrella. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NLIKU (b) NIKUL (c) LNIKU (d) UKINL
29. 29.📅 The digits 16011983 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 16/01/1983 (b) 1601/19/83 (c) 16/0119/83 (d) 160/119/83
30. 30.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) say (c) learn (d) write
31. 31.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
32. 32.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a rhyme about cats (c) initials match the list (d) a list of numbers
33. 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “Aunty Aunty Neat Silly Ants ___ Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) Under (c) Mum (d) Eat
34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ladder, umpire, whistle? (a) Wise Up Lazy (b) Up Wise Lazy (c) Up Lazy Wise (d) Lazy Up Wise
35. 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) make (b) snake (c) swing (d) block
36. 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pink Cats Eat (b) Eat Cats Pink Crazy (c) Cats Pink Crazy Eat (d) Cats Eat Pink Crazy
37. 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: orange, pillow, duck? (a) Old Pigs Dogs (b) Pigs Dogs Old (c) Dogs Pigs Old (d) Pigs Old Dogs
38. 38.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a type of exam (c) a kind of pen (d) a memory trick
39. 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Eat Pigs All (b) Lions Pigs All Eat (c) All Pigs Lions Eat (d) Eat Lions Pigs All
40. 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) ASIAP (b) APISA (c) PAISA (d) AISAP

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