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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) chain (b) main (c) smell (d) brain
- 2.📅 The digits 06031955 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 06/0319/55 (b) 06/03/1955 (c) 060/319/55 (d) 0603/19/55
- 3.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they are longer (c) they need no learning (d) they always rhyme
- 4.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 718117325. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 718 811 7325 (b) 718 117 235 (c) 718 117 325 (d) 781 173 25
- 6.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 7.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 8.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pink Crazy Eat (b) Crazy Pink Cook Eat (c) Eat Crazy Pink Cook (d) Crazy Eat Pink Cook
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for goat, owl, needle, rope is “Grab Owls Neat ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dogs (b) Rani (c) Young (d) Seven
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) NESW (b) WSEN (c) ENSW (d) ESWN
- 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 352220358. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 352 220 0358 (b) 352 203 58 (c) 352 223 058 (d) 352 220 358
- 13.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) again (b) twice (c) fast (d) more
- 14.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) collection (c) condensation (d) precipitation
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty Mice Fly Jolly (b) Jolly Fly Mice Aunty (c) Fly Jolly Mice Aunty (d) Fly Mice Aunty Jolly
- 16.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 17.🔢 You want to remember the number 862906758850. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6290 6758 850 (b) 8629 9067 58850 (c) 8629 0675 8850 (d) 8629 0678 5850
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECCP (b) CEPC (c) ECPC (d) CPCE
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: frog, rope, van? (a) Runs Frogs Very (b) Frogs Runs Very (c) Runs Very Frogs (d) Very Runs Frogs
- 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) well (c) sell (d) key
- 21.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) initials match the list (c) a very long word (d) a rhyme about cats
- 22.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shake (b) bake (c) make (d) one
- 23.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) reading very fast
- 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: flute, umbrella, onion, ant, ball. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BAOUF (b) FUOAB (c) UOABF (d) UFOAB
- 25.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) February (b) April (c) January (d) March
- 26.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, tent, violin, drum. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BTVD (b) TBVD (c) TVDB (d) DVTB
- 27.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 3 (B) stand for? (a) blue (b) red (c) indigo (d) yellow
- 28.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IBGYORV (b) ROYGBIV (c) VIBGYOR (d) IVBGYOR
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Eight Lazy Play All (b) Lazy Play All Eight (c) Lazy Eight Play All (d) All Play Lazy Eight
- 30.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) its colour
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: violin, whistle, goat? (a) Wet Vans Grab (b) Vans Wet Grab (c) Grab Wet Vans (d) Wet Grab Vans
- 32.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
- 33.True or false: “train” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 34.📅 The digits 17031977 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1703/19/77 (b) 17/03/1977 (c) 17/0319/77 (d) 170/319/77
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Every Pigs Crazy (b) Cook Pigs Crazy Every (c) Every Cook Pigs Crazy (d) Crazy Pigs Cook Every
- 36.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) say it aloud often (b) never say it (c) read it once silently (d) change it each day
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, lamp, inkpot? (a) Ice Lions Jolly (b) Lions Jolly Ice (c) Lions Ice Jolly (d) Jolly Lions Ice
- 38.✏️ 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
- 39.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 40.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) block (b) spring (c) done (d) chain
Answer key
- smell
- 06/03/1955
- one word holds a list
- 3
- 718 117 325
- 5
- first letters as a word
- False
- Eat Crazy Pink Cook
- Rani
- NESW
- 352 220 358
- more
- evaporation
- Jolly Fly Mice Aunty
- 4
- 8629 0675 8850
- ECPC
- Frogs Runs Very
- key
- initials match the list
- one
- splitting into groups
- FUOAB
- January
- BTVD
- blue
- VIBGYOR
- Eight Lazy Play All
- what each letter means
- Vans Wet Grab
- the rainbow colours
- False
- 17/03/1977
- Every Cook Pigs Crazy
- say it aloud often
- Jolly Lions Ice
- a silly, funny one
- a rhyme
- chain
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