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.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 2.📝 A list to learn, in order: wallet, rose, banana, igloo, frog. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RBIFW (b) FIBRW (c) WRBIF (d) RWBIF
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for jug, apple, pillow, bucket is “___ All Play Bunny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Big (c) Jeeps (d) Uncle
- 4.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 5.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
- 6.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 7.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a maths sum (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a long story
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) kite (b) white (c) light (d) cane
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eat Crazy Play Cats (b) Crazy Play Cats Eat (c) Cats Play Crazy Eat (d) Crazy Eat Play Cats
- 10.📅 The digits 15041996 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 150/419/96 (b) 15/0419/96 (c) 1504/19/96 (d) 15/04/1996
- 11.📝 A list to learn, in order: mirror, duck, vase, watch. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DVWM (b) WVDM (c) MDVW (d) DMVW
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umpire, parrot, doll? (a) Dance Pink Uncle (b) Uncle Pink Dance (c) Pink Dance Uncle (d) Pink Uncle Dance
- 13.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) precipitation (c) condensation (d) collection
- 14.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) knee (b) rake (c) bite (d) lane
- 15.🔢 A 4-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 16.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only numbers (c) numbers and letter lists (d) only pictures
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Sing Wins Neat (b) Neat Eat Sing Wins (c) Eat Neat Sing Wins (d) Wins Sing Eat Neat
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) PAISA (c) AISAP (d) ASIAP
- 19.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) planet (c) world (d) one
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Jeeps Mice Aunty (b) Jeeps Funny Mice Aunty (c) Funny Mice Aunty Jeeps (d) Aunty Mice Funny Jeeps
- 21.📝 A list to learn, in order: flute, tiger, parrot, ice cream, vase. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VIPTF (b) FTPIV (c) TFPIV (d) TPIVF
- 22.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) king (d) sun
- 23.🔢 You want to remember the number 201127267. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 201 127 267 (b) 220 112 7267 (c) 201 127 26 (d) 201 127 627
- 24.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is printed bigger (c) it is a smaller number (d) it has fewer digits
- 25.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 26.📅 The digits 14051966 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1405/19/66 (b) 14/0519/66 (c) 140/519/66 (d) 14/05/1966
- 27.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vans Eight ___ Jump Seven Uncle Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wise (b) Uncle (c) Lazy (d) My
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Seven Love Frogs Runs (b) Frogs Love Seven Runs (c) Seven Runs Love Frogs (d) Runs Seven Love Frogs
- 29.📅 The digits 09031978 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0903/19/78 (b) 09/03/1978 (c) 09/0319/78 (d) 090/319/78
- 30.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 31.📅 The digits 19061979 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 190/619/79 (b) 19/0619/79 (c) 19/06/1979 (d) 1906/19/79
- 32.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they need no learning (b) they are longer (c) they always rhyme (d) one word holds a list
- 33.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) there is no list (c) you like spelling (d) the letters make no word
- 34.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 1 (V) stand for? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) violet
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: fan, pillow, umpire? (a) Pink Frogs Up (b) Up Pink Frogs (c) Pink Up Frogs (d) Frogs Pink Up
- 36.📅 The digits 22041966 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 22/04/1966 (b) 22/0419/66 (c) 2204/19/66 (d) 220/419/66
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) VMEMJSUN (c) MVEMJSUN (d) NUSJMEVM
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: shoe, mirror, coconut? (a) Mice Sing Cook (b) Cook Mice Sing (c) Sing Mice Cook (d) Mice Cook Sing
- 39.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
Answer key
- 3
- WRBIF
- Jeeps
- 8
- splitting into groups
- 4
- a list in a fixed order
- cane
- Eat Crazy Play Cats
- 15/04/1996
- MDVW
- Uncle Pink Dance
- precipitation
- bite
- 2
- numbers and letter lists
- Neat Eat Sing Wins
- PAISA
- one
- Jeeps Funny Mice Aunty
- FTPIV
- king
- 201 127 267
- three chunks, not ten
- 3
- 14/05/1966
- My
- Runs Seven Love Frogs
- 09/03/1978
- False
- 19/06/1979
- one word holds a list
- the letters make no word
- violet
- Frogs Pink Up
- 22/04/1966
- MVEMJSUN
- Sing Mice Cook
- False
- 5
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