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 is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 1 and 947
- 2.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) you like spelling
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for lamp, drum, frog, jeep is “Lions Dad ___ Jeeps”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tea (b) Only (c) Frogs (d) Young
- 4.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 8897322875. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 889 732 28775 (b) 889 723 2875 (c) 889 732 285 (d) 889 732 2875
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 638488395. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 638 488 35 (b) 638 488 8395 (c) 638 488 395 (d) 368 488 395
- 7.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Europe (b) Africa (c) Asia (d) North America
- 9.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) egg (b) pupa (c) adult (d) larva
- 10.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sing (b) make (c) rake (d) shake
- 12.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: lemon, jeep, violin, orange. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OVJL (b) JVOL (c) LJVO (d) JLVO
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: watch, frog, pillow? (a) Frogs Wins Play (b) Wins Frogs Play (c) Frogs Play Wins (d) Play Frogs Wins
- 15.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Eat ___ Play Cats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Up (b) Ink (c) Wet (d) Cook
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a silly, funny one (c) a dull, plain one (d) one with no picture
- 17.📅 The digits 20031974 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2003/19/74 (b) 20/0319/74 (c) 20/03/1974 (d) 200/319/74
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Silly Wet Neat (b) Neat Eat Silly Wet (c) Eat Neat Silly Wet (d) Wet Silly Eat Neat
- 19.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they need no learning (c) they are longer (d) they always rhyme
- 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sock (b) shock (c) wake (d) lock
- 21.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) FJMA (c) AMFJ (d) JFMA
- 22.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 23.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) indigo (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
- 24.🔢 You want to remember the number 8392125750. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 839 212 5705 (b) 839 125 750 (c) 883 921 25750 (d) 839 212 5750
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mice Vans Eat Mice Jeeps Seven ___ Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ice (b) Only (c) Kids (d) Under
- 26.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) train (b) three (c) chain (d) cane
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for needle, tent, onion, rope is “___ Tea Only Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dogs (b) Funny (c) Nani (d) Toys
- 29.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) bell (c) night (d) tree
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: anchor, cat, sock? (a) Silly Crazy Ants (b) Crazy Silly Ants (c) Crazy Ants Silly (d) Ants Crazy Silly
- 31.📅 The digits 26111952 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 261/119/52 (b) 26/1119/52 (c) 2611/19/52 (d) 26/11/1952
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SLFR (b) FLSR (c) RSLF (d) SRLF
- 33.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 34.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ESWN (c) ENSW (d) NESW
- 35.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fun (b) knock (c) run (d) done
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Silly Green (b) Green Wise Silly (c) Wise Green Silly (d) Silly Wise Green
- 38.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for anchor, owl, rope, lamp is “___ Old Runs Lions”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wins (b) Funny (c) Dogs (d) All
- 40.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
Answer key
- 19 and 47
- the letters make no word
- Frogs
- first letters as a word
- 889 732 2875
- 638 488 395
- False
- Africa
- egg
- green
- sing
- False
- LJVO
- Wins Frogs Play
- Cook
- a silly, funny one
- 20/03/1974
- Neat Eat Silly Wet
- one word holds a list
- wake
- JFMA
- chunking
- orange
- 839 212 5750
- Under
- True
- three
- Nani
- sun
- Ants Crazy Silly
- 26/11/1952
- RSLF
- chunking
- NESW
- True
- knock
- Silly Wise Green
- splitting into groups
- All
- the rainbow colours
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