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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 600 · 40 questions
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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. 1.📅 The digits 26011955 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 260/119/55 (b) 2601/19/55 (c) 26/01/1955 (d) 26/0119/55
  2. 2.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its spelling backwards (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
  3. 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) one with no picture (c) a very long one (d) a silly, funny one
  4. 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 604696176. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 604 696 167 (b) 604 699 6176 (c) 046 961 76 (d) 604 696 176
  5. 5.🎵 Which word does “train” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) clock (d) rain
  6. 6.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 4 (S) stand for? (a) Africa (b) South America (c) Australia (d) Europe
  7. 7.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  8. 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 4157236076. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 415 726 3076 (b) 415 723 60766 (c) 415 723 676 (d) 415 723 6076
  9. 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) ECPC (c) ECCP (d) CPCE
  10. 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) lock (c) sock (d) white
  11. 11.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) known (c) right (d) clear
  12. 12.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) sea (c) sock (d) lock
  13. 13.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a drawing (d) a long poem
  14. 14.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it has fewer digits (c) it is a smaller number (d) it is printed bigger
  15. 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: net, inkpot, duck? (a) Inside Nine Dance (b) Inside Dance Nine (c) Nine Inside Dance (d) Dance Inside Nine
  16. 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: sock, radio, mirror, umpire. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RSMU (b) UMRS (c) RMUS (d) SRMU
  17. 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Fly Mum Aunty (b) Aunty Mum Fly Jolly (c) Fly Mum Aunty Jolly (d) Fly Jolly Mum Aunty
  18. 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) spell (b) tea (c) three (d) rock
  19. 19.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
  20. 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wet Seven (b) Wet Seven Goats (c) Wet Goats Seven (d) Seven Wet Goats
  21. 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) brain (b) lock (c) sock (d) knock
  22. 22.📅 The digits 15062017 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 150/620/17 (b) 1506/20/17 (c) 15/0620/17 (d) 15/06/2017
  23. 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
  24. 24.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
  25. 25.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) one (b) spell (c) knee (d) bite
  26. 26.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  27. 27.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 2 (V) stand for? (a) Mercury (b) Venus (c) Uranus (d) Earth
  28. 28.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) the list is short (c) you like spelling (d) there is no list
  29. 29.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) tree (d) clock
  30. 30.True or false: “main” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
  32. 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) done (b) white (c) make (d) main
  33. 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Eight Lazy ___ Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Neat (b) Sing (c) Pigs (d) Cats
  34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Cook Every (b) Cook Every Play Cats (c) Cook Play Cats Every (d) Every Cook Play Cats
  35. 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 699570808. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 695 970 808 (b) 699 570 808 (c) 699 708 08 (d) 699 570 0808
  36. 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Fly Lions Sing Runs (b) Sing Runs Lions Fly (c) Sing Lions Fly Runs (d) Runs Sing Lions Fly
  37. 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
  38. 38.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Indian (b) Arctic (c) Southern (d) Atlantic
  39. 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: mango, jeep, tomato? (a) Jump Mum Toys (b) Jump Toys Mum (c) Mum Jump Toys (d) Toys Jump Mum
  40. 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) world (c) one (d) planet

Answer key

  1. 26/01/1955
  2. what each letter means
  3. a silly, funny one
  4. 604 696 176
  5. rain
  6. South America
  7. 4
  8. 415 723 6076
  9. ECPC
  10. white
  11. true
  12. sea
  13. first letters as a word
  14. three chunks, not ten
  15. Nine Inside Dance
  16. SRMU
  17. Jolly Fly Mum Aunty
  18. rock
  19. splitting into groups
  20. Seven Wet Goats
  21. brain
  22. 15/06/2017
  23. a rhyme
  24. a first-letter sentence
  25. knee
  26. 8
  27. Venus
  28. the letters make no word
  29. tree
  30. False
  31. the rainbow colours
  32. main
  33. Pigs
  34. Every Cook Play Cats
  35. 699 570 808
  36. Runs Sing Lions Fly
  37. chunking
  38. Atlantic
  39. Mum Jump Toys
  40. one

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