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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Every Love Play ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wise (b) Every (c) Very (d) All
- 2.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) cake (c) tree (d) night
- 3.🎵 Which word does “ton” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) sun (d) cake
- 4.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) the list is short (c) the letters make no word (d) there is no list
- 5.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a mind map (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 6.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knock (b) sock (c) sing (d) shock
- 7.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 8.📅 The digits 10031987 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 10/0319/87 (b) 1003/19/87 (c) 100/319/87 (d) 10/03/1987
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) ASIAP (c) APISA (d) PAISA
- 10.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
- 11.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they always rhyme (c) they are longer (d) one word holds a list
- 12.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Play Aunty ___ Sing Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Old (b) Every (c) Yaks (d) Ink
- 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) APLE (b) LEPA (c) ELPA (d) LPAE
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECCP (c) ECPC (d) CEPC
- 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 119607812. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 196 078 12 (b) 119 607 812 (c) 191 607 812 (d) 111 960 7812
- 17.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Atlantic (c) Pacific (d) Southern
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 888112001910. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8881 1200 01910 (b) 8881 1200 1910 (c) 8881 2100 1910 (d) 8881 1001 910
- 19.🎵 Which word does “free” rhyme with? (a) night (b) rain (c) clock (d) tree
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IVBGYOR (c) IBGYORV (d) VIBGYOR
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for pillow, igloo, duck, guava, violin is “Pink Ice Dogs ___ Very”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Every (b) Goats (c) Pigs (d) Jolly
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kite, duck, jeep? (a) Dance Kind Jump (b) Dance Jump Kind (c) Kind Dance Jump (d) Jump Dance Kind
- 23.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🔢 You want to remember the number 766209090987. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7662 0990 0987 (b) 7662 0909 0987 (c) 7662 0909 097 (d) 7662 0909 09987
- 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: rose, bucket, jug, needle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BJNR (b) RBJN (c) NJBR (d) BRJN
- 26.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) what each letter means (c) its colour (d) nothing else
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Seven Goats (b) Goats Wet Seven (c) Seven Wet Goats (d) Wet Goats Seven
- 28.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 29.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vines Ink ___ Grab Yaks Owls Runs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Big (c) Grab (d) Pigs
- 30.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) planet (c) star (d) world
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) block (b) spring (c) fight (d) free
- 32.True or false: “make” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only pictures (c) only numbers (d) numbers and letter lists
- 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, wallet, tent? (a) Wet Jeeps Tiny (b) Tiny Wet Jeeps (c) Wet Tiny Jeeps (d) Jeeps Wet Tiny
- 35.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) steps (c) tricks (d) songs
- 36.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) white (b) green (c) saffron
- 37.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) a long story (b) a mind map (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 39.📅 The digits 14071976 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 14/0719/76 (b) 14/07/1976 (c) 140/719/76 (d) 1407/19/76
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Pigs Aunty Eat (b) Eat Lions Pigs Aunty (c) Lions Eat Pigs Aunty (d) Aunty Pigs Lions Eat
Answer key
- All
- night
- sun
- the letters make no word
- chunking
- sing
- False
- 10/03/1987
- PAISA
- a first-letter sentence
- one word holds a list
- first letters as a word
- Ink
- ELPA
- ECPC
- 119 607 812
- Pacific
- 8881 1200 1910
- tree
- VIBGYOR
- Goats
- Kind Dance Jump
- False
- 7662 0909 0987
- RBJN
- what each letter means
- Seven Wet Goats
- a rhyme
- Big
- one
- free
- True
- numbers and letter lists
- Jeeps Wet Tiny
- tricks
- white
- an acronym
- a first-letter sentence
- 14/07/1976
- Eat Lions Pigs Aunty
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