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.📅 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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.🔢 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.🎵 Which word does “train” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) clock (d) rain
- 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.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.🔤 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) lock (c) sock (d) white
- 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) sea (c) sock (d) lock
- 13.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a drawing (d) a long poem
- 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) spell (b) tea (c) three (d) rock
- 19.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) brain (b) lock (c) sock (d) knock
- 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.🧰 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.🧰 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) one (b) spell (c) knee (d) bite
- 26.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) tree (d) clock
- 30.True or false: “main” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) done (b) white (c) make (d) main
- 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.✏️ 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.🧰 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.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Indian (b) Arctic (c) Southern (d) Atlantic
- 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.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) world (c) one (d) planet
Answer key
- 26/01/1955
- what each letter means
- a silly, funny one
- 604 696 176
- rain
- South America
- 4
- 415 723 6076
- ECPC
- white
- true
- sea
- first letters as a word
- three chunks, not ten
- Nine Inside Dance
- SRMU
- Jolly Fly Mum Aunty
- rock
- splitting into groups
- Seven Wet Goats
- brain
- 15/06/2017
- a rhyme
- a first-letter sentence
- knee
- 8
- Venus
- the letters make no word
- tree
- False
- the rainbow colours
- main
- Pigs
- Every Cook Play Cats
- 699 570 808
- Runs Sing Lions Fly
- chunking
- Atlantic
- Mum Jump Toys
- one
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