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.True or false: “bright” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, jeep, orange? (a) Old Jeeps Kites (b) Jeeps Kites Old (c) Kites Jeeps Old (d) Jeeps Old Kites
- 3.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they always rhyme (c) they need no learning (d) one word holds a list
- 4.True or false: “wake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a very long one (c) one with no picture (d) a silly, funny one
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in the same order (c) backwards (d) in ABC order
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 2408540852. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 240 885 40852 (b) 204 854 0852 (c) 240 854 0852 (d) 240 540 852
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for tomato, needle, flute, jug is “Tea Neat ___ Jump”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pigs (b) Under (c) Fly (d) Ink
- 10.🔤 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
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: shoe, monkey, bucket? (a) Bakes My Sing (b) My Bakes Sing (c) My Sing Bakes (d) Sing My Bakes
- 12.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: drum, needle, onion? (a) Nine Only Dance (b) Nine Dance Only (c) Dance Nine Only (d) Only Nine Dance
- 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) NESW (c) ESWN (d) ENSW
- 15.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) known (c) right (d) clear
- 16.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) means something to you (c) changes daily (d) has no pattern
- 17.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a maths sum (c) a picture (d) a list in a fixed order
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wins Seven Every Neat (b) Every Seven Wins Neat (c) Neat Every Seven Wins (d) Every Neat Seven Wins
- 19.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) violet (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) ASIAP (c) PAISA (d) AISAP
- 21.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AANSAEA (c) AEASNAA (d) AANSAAE
- 23.📅 The digits 19061994 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1906/19/94 (b) 19/0619/94 (c) 19/06/1994 (d) 190/619/94
- 24.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) January (b) February (c) April (d) March
- 25.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) learn (c) write (d) say
- 26.🎵 Which word does “lane” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) night (d) king
- 27.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a mind map
- 28.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Silly Goats (b) Silly Wet Goats (c) Wet Goats Silly (d) Goats Wet Silly
- 30.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a very long word (c) a rhyme about cats (d) a list of numbers
- 31.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they need no practice (c) sound patterns stick (d) they are always true
- 32.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) write (b) smell (c) white (d) bite
- 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) block (b) spring (c) bite (d) three
- 34.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 4213688848. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 412 368 8848 (b) 421 368 8848 (c) 421 368 884 (d) 421 336 88848
- 36.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) egg (b) larva (c) pupa (d) adult
- 37.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 38.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 39.📅 The digits 04091990 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 040/919/90 (b) 04/09/1990 (c) 04/0919/90 (d) 0409/19/90
- 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
Answer key
- True
- Kites Jeeps Old
- one word holds a list
- True
- first letters as a word
- a silly, funny one
- in the same order
- 240 854 0852
- Fly
- ECPC
- Sing My Bakes
- the rainbow colours
- Dance Nine Only
- NESW
- true
- means something to you
- a list in a fixed order
- Neat Every Seven Wins
- green
- PAISA
- an acronym
- AANSAEA
- 19/06/1994
- January
- know
- rain
- chunking
- True
- Silly Wet Goats
- initials match the list
- sound patterns stick
- smell
- block
- 4
- 421 368 8848
- adult
- 5
- False
- 04/09/1990
- an acronym
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