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 first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: lamp, tomato, guava? (a) Tea Goats Lazy (b) Lazy Tea Goats (c) Goats Tea Lazy (d) Tea Lazy Goats
- 2.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) is very long (c) changes daily (d) means something to you
- 3.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Arctic (c) Atlantic (d) Southern
- 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 635040453. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 653 040 453 (b) 635 504 0453 (c) 635 040 453 (d) 350 404 53
- 5.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) egg (b) adult (c) pupa (d) larva
- 6.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) east (b) north (c) west (d) south
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: pencil, rope, inkpot? (a) Rani Inside Play (b) Inside Rani Play (c) Rani Play Inside (d) Play Rani Inside
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 288258420619. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2882 5820 619 (b) 2888 2584 20619 (c) 2882 5842 0619 (d) 2882 5842 0169
- 9.🔤 “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
- 10.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Atlantic (c) Indian (d) Pacific
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for ice cream, pillow, onion, ball, ant is “Ink Play ___ Bakes Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Owls (b) Seven (c) Mum (d) Cats
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vans Every My Jump ___ Uncle Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nine (b) Big (c) Kind (d) Seven
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) three (b) ring (c) sea (d) knee
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Ants Mum Frogs Jeeps (b) Jeeps Frogs Mum Ants (c) Frogs Mum Ants Jeeps (d) Frogs Jeeps Mum Ants
- 16.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: fan, umbrella, violin? (a) Funny Under Very (b) Under Funny Very (c) Under Very Funny (d) Very Under Funny
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 955118590. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 551 185 90 (b) 955 118 950 (c) 955 118 5590 (d) 955 118 590
- 19.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 20.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) reading very fast (c) writing it twice (d) splitting into groups
- 21.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 2 (V) stand for? (a) Uranus (b) Venus (c) Mercury (d) Earth
- 22.✏️ 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
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Cats Every (b) Every Cats Cats Play (c) Every Cats Play Cats (d) Cats Every Play Cats
- 24.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 25.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Australia (b) Europe (c) Africa (d) Antarctica
- 26.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 27.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a long poem (c) first letters as a word (d) a drawing
- 28.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) sun (c) rain (d) clock
- 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: ball, ant, lamp, mirror, vase. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VMLAB (b) ABLMV (c) ALMVB (d) BALMV
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 867165656198. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8671 1656 56198 (b) 8671 6556 6198 (c) 8671 6565 6198 (d) 8671 6565 698
- 31.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 1 and 947 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 1 9 4 7
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) WSEN (c) NESW (d) ENSW
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for goat, duck, wallet, flute is “___ Dogs Wet Funny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Eight (b) Lazy (c) Grab (d) Mice
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, lemon, tiger, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LSTP (b) SLTP (c) LTPS (d) PTLS
- 35.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🎵 Which word does “white” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) clock (d) night
- 37.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 38.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) plane (b) cane (c) shell (d) chain
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Rani Love Funny (b) Funny Love Sing Rani (c) Rani Sing Love Funny (d) Sing Love Funny Rani
Answer key
- Lazy Tea Goats
- means something to you
- Arctic
- 635 040 453
- pupa
- west
- Play Rani Inside
- 2882 5842 0619
- white
- Pacific
- Owls
- Seven
- MVEMJSUN
- ring
- Jeeps Frogs Mum Ants
- a first-letter sentence
- Funny Under Very
- 955 118 590
- a first-letter sentence
- splitting into groups
- Venus
- initials match the list
- Every Cats Play Cats
- what each letter means
- Australia
- 7
- first letters as a word
- cake
- BALMV
- 8671 6565 6198
- 19 and 47
- NESW
- Grab
- SLTP
- False
- night
- 8
- True
- shell
- Rani Sing Love Funny
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