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 kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 2.📅 The digits 13071958 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 130/719/58 (b) 13/0719/58 (c) 13/07/1958 (d) 1307/19/58
- 3.📝 A list to learn, in order: ice cream, rose, owl, vase, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LVORI (b) RIOVL (c) ROVLI (d) IROVL
- 4.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bake (b) bee (c) rake (d) lake
- 5.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the months (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
- 6.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 7.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a maths sum (c) a long story (d) a list in a fixed order
- 8.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 9.True or false: “one” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) nothing else (b) what each letter means (c) its spelling backwards (d) its colour
- 11.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) means something to you (c) has no pattern (d) changes daily
- 12.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 6 (E) stand for? (a) Asia (b) Australia (c) South America (d) Europe
- 14.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 9 4 7 (b) 19 and 47 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 194 and 7
- 15.📝 A list to learn, in order: candle, lemon, mirror, onion, inkpot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LMOIC (b) CLMOI (c) LCMOI (d) IOMLC
- 16.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 17.True or false: “shake” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Pacific (c) Arctic (d) Southern
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for candle, anchor, frog, tomato, parrot is “Crazy Aunty ___ Toys Pink”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ice (b) Ants (c) Kites (d) Fly
- 20.📅 The digits 14122003 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 14/1220/03 (b) 1412/20/03 (c) 14/12/2003 (d) 141/220/03
- 21.🎵 Which word does “spell” rhyme with? (a) king (b) night (c) bell (d) sun
- 22.📅 The digits 13101957 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 131/019/57 (b) 13/1019/57 (c) 1310/19/57 (d) 13/10/1957
- 23.📝 A list to learn, in order: umbrella, banana, lemon, frog, onion. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BULFO (b) OFLBU (c) BLFOU (d) UBLFO
- 24.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) the letters make no word (c) you like spelling (d) the list is short
- 25.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) nothing at all (b) an acronym word (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 26.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 1 (N) stand for? (a) north (b) east (c) west (d) south
- 27.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) North America (b) Australia (c) Africa (d) Antarctica
- 28.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 29.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, ant, jalebi, rose. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) AWJR (b) RJAW (c) AJRW (d) WAJR
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wins Silly (b) Silly Wins Goats (c) Wins Silly Goats (d) Wins Goats Silly
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: shoe, tiger, needle? (a) Neat Tiny Sing (b) Sing Tiny Neat (c) Tiny Neat Sing (d) Tiny Sing Neat
- 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: kite, jeep, wallet, net, tent. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KJWNT (b) JWNTK (c) JKWNT (d) TNWJK
- 34.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AEASNAA (c) AANSAAE (d) AANSAEA
- 35.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
- 36.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Atlantic (c) Indian (d) Arctic
- 37.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) green (b) white (c) saffron
- 38.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FJMA (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “Silly Wet ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Goats (b) Big (c) Wins (d) All
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) ASIAP (c) PAISA (d) APISA
Answer key
- a rhyme
- 13/07/1958
- IROVL
- bee
- the rainbow colours
- 3
- a list in a fixed order
- 2
- True
- what each letter means
- means something to you
- False
- Europe
- 19 and 47
- CLMOI
- 3
- False
- Pacific
- Fly
- 14/12/2003
- bell
- 13/10/1957
- UBLFO
- the letters make no word
- a first-letter sentence
- north
- Australia
- 9
- first letters as a word
- WAJR
- Silly Wins Goats
- Sing Tiny Neat
- KJWNT
- AANSAEA
- splitting into groups
- Arctic
- white
- JFMA
- Goats
- PAISA
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