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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 610 · 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.True or false: “bright” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
  2. 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. 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. 4.True or false: “wake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
  6. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 12.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
  13. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 25.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) learn (c) write (d) say
  26. 26.🎵 Which word does “lane” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) night (d) king
  27. 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. 28.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  29. 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. 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. 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. 32.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) write (b) smell (c) white (d) bite
  33. 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) block (b) spring (c) bite (d) three
  34. 34.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  35. 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. 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. 37.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  38. 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. 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. 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

  1. True
  2. Kites Jeeps Old
  3. one word holds a list
  4. True
  5. first letters as a word
  6. a silly, funny one
  7. in the same order
  8. 240 854 0852
  9. Fly
  10. ECPC
  11. Sing My Bakes
  12. the rainbow colours
  13. Dance Nine Only
  14. NESW
  15. true
  16. means something to you
  17. a list in a fixed order
  18. Neat Every Seven Wins
  19. green
  20. PAISA
  21. an acronym
  22. AANSAEA
  23. 19/06/1994
  24. January
  25. know
  26. rain
  27. chunking
  28. True
  29. Silly Wet Goats
  30. initials match the list
  31. sound patterns stick
  32. smell
  33. block
  34. 4
  35. 421 368 8848
  36. adult
  37. 5
  38. False
  39. 04/09/1990
  40. an acronym

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