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.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) numbers and letter lists (d) only pictures
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAAE (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAEA (d) AEASNAA
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mice ___ Eat My Jeeps Silly Uncle Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mice (b) Vans (c) Ants (d) Ice
- 4.True or false: “make” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Goats Wet Silly (b) Wet Goats Silly (c) Silly Wet Goats (d) Wet Silly Goats
- 7.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) fast (c) again (d) twice
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: van, radio, pillow, anchor. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VRPA (b) APRV (c) RVPA (d) RPAV
- 10.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: parrot, cat, needle? (a) Nani Cats Pink (b) Cats Nani Pink (c) Cats Pink Nani (d) Pink Cats Nani
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nani Seven Wins (b) Nani Every Seven Wins (c) Every Seven Wins Nani (d) Wins Seven Every Nani
- 13.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECPC (c) CEPC (d) ECCP
- 15.📅 The digits 27052017 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 270/520/17 (b) 2705/20/17 (c) 27/0520/17 (d) 27/05/2017
- 16.True or false: “ton” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) white (b) green (c) saffron
- 18.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cats Play Cats (b) Cats Play Cats Eight (c) Eight Cats Cats Play (d) Cats Eight Play Cats
- 20.📅 The digits 04052025 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 04/05/2025 (b) 04/0520/25 (c) 0405/20/25 (d) 040/520/25
- 21.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) an acronym word (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) nothing at all
- 22.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) precipitation (b) collection (c) evaporation (d) condensation
- 23.📅 The digits 19062019 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1906/20/19 (b) 190/620/19 (c) 19/0620/19 (d) 19/06/2019
- 24.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) over (c) done (d) ended
- 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: sock, kettle, rope, igloo, needle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KSRIN (b) KRINS (c) SKRIN (d) NIRKS
- 26.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) IVBGYOR (c) ROYGBIV (d) IBGYORV
- 27.📅 The digits 17022025 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1702/20/25 (b) 17/0220/25 (c) 17/02/2025 (d) 170/220/25
- 28.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a list of numbers (d) initials match the list
- 29.🎵 Which word does “thing” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) night (c) king (d) clock
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 489092762. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 489 092 762 (b) 489 027 62 (c) 489 092 7762 (d) 849 092 762
- 31.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
- 33.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a picture (d) a long story
- 34.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 3 (E) stand for? (a) Jupiter (b) Earth (c) Neptune (d) Mercury
- 35.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Love Eat (b) Love Eat Pink All (c) Love Pink All Eat (d) Eat Love Pink All
- 37.📅 The digits 21111957 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2111/19/57 (b) 211/119/57 (c) 21/11/1957 (d) 21/1119/57
- 38.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) tree (d) sun
- 39.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 40.📝 A list to learn, in order: fan, drum, needle, lemon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DNLF (b) LNDF (c) DFNL (d) FDNL
Answer key
- numbers and letter lists
- AANSAEA
- Vans
- False
- 3
- Silly Wet Goats
- more
- a silly, funny one
- VRPA
- 5
- Pink Cats Nani
- Nani Every Seven Wins
- True
- ECPC
- 27/05/2017
- True
- saffron
- 5
- Eight Cats Play Cats
- 04/05/2025
- a first-letter sentence
- condensation
- 19/06/2019
- done
- SKRIN
- VIBGYOR
- 17/02/2025
- initials match the list
- king
- 489 092 762
- True
- first letters as a word
- a list in a fixed order
- Earth
- chunking
- Eat Love Pink All
- 21/11/1957
- sun
- False
- FDNL
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