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 first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: wallet, mango, van? (a) Mum Vans Wise (b) Vans Mum Wise (c) Mum Wise Vans (d) Wise Mum Vans
- 2.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) means something to you (b) changes daily (c) is very long (d) has no pattern
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 295846918. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 295 869 18 (b) 295 864 918 (c) 295 846 9118 (d) 295 846 918
- 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 9910295381. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 991 029 381 (b) 991 092 5381 (c) 991 102 95381 (d) 991 029 5381
- 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) WSG (c) GWS (d) WGS
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kite, rose, orange? (a) Runs Kids Old (b) Kids Runs Old (c) Old Runs Kids (d) Runs Old Kids
- 7.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ENSW (b) WSEN (c) ESWN (d) NESW
- 8.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a dull, plain one (c) a silly, funny one (d) one with no picture
- 10.🔢 You want to remember the number 701784428. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 701 784 4228 (b) 701 784 482 (c) 701 784 428 (d) 701 844 28
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shake (b) snake (c) spell (d) rake
- 12.📅 The digits 28052002 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2805/20/02 (b) 28/0520/02 (c) 28/05/2002 (d) 280/520/02
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Lions Play Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Under (b) Aunty (c) Every (d) Ice
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 971663095386. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9716 6309 53386 (b) 9716 3095 386 (c) 9716 6309 5386 (d) 9716 6309 5836
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Seven Love Frogs (b) Seven Love Frogs Rani (c) Seven Rani Love Frogs (d) Frogs Love Seven Rani
- 16.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 17.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) north (b) south (c) west (d) east
- 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) tricks (b) games (c) steps (d) songs
- 19.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 20.True or false: “string” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ladder, duck, needle, fan, mirror is “Lions ___ Neat Fly Mice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Young (b) Mum (c) Eat (d) Dogs
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ball, needle, drum? (a) Big Nani Dogs (b) Nani Big Dogs (c) Dogs Nani Big (d) Nani Dogs Big
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umpire, drum, mirror? (a) Dogs Uncle Mice (b) Mice Dogs Uncle (c) Dogs Mice Uncle (d) Uncle Dogs Mice
- 24.True or false: “fun” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 732758331832. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7372 5833 1832 (b) 7327 5833 1832 (c) 7327 5833 183 (d) 7327 7583 31832
- 26.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 2 (V) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Uranus (c) Mercury (d) Venus
- 27.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: bucket, guava, violin, owl. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GBVO (b) GVOB (c) BGVO (d) OVGB
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) fight (c) bright (d) light
- 30.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) you like spelling (c) there is no list (d) the letters make no word
- 31.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a drawing (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 3508940479. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 350 894 4079 (b) 350 894 04479 (c) 350 894 079 (d) 350 894 0479
- 33.🔢 You want to remember the number 641625673. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 641 625 673 (b) 641 625 67 (c) 641 625 5673 (d) 641 652 673
- 34.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) brain (b) knee (c) well (d) knock
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pigs Cats Eight (b) Cats Eight Pigs Cook (c) Cats Pigs Cook Eight (d) Eight Cats Pigs Cook
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) shake (c) lake (d) brain
- 37.🎵 Which word does “knock” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) clock (c) night (d) tree
- 38.📝 A list to learn, in order: mango, fan, anchor, orange. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FAOM (b) FMAO (c) OAFM (d) MFAO
- 39.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) they are longer (c) they need no learning (d) one word holds a list
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) PAISA (c) AISAP (d) ASIAP
Answer key
- Wise Mum Vans
- means something to you
- 295 846 918
- 991 029 5381
- SWG
- Kids Runs Old
- NESW
- 2
- a silly, funny one
- 701 784 428
- spell
- 28/05/2002
- Every
- 9716 6309 5386
- Rani Seven Love Frogs
- True
- east
- tricks
- True
- False
- Dogs
- Big Nani Dogs
- Uncle Dogs Mice
- False
- 7327 5833 1832
- Venus
- 7
- BGVO
- wake
- the letters make no word
- first letters as a word
- 350 894 0479
- 641 625 673
- brain
- Eight Cats Pigs Cook
- brain
- clock
- MFAO
- one word holds a list
- PAISA
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