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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 639 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) NESW (b) ENSW (c) WSEN (d) ESWN
  2. 2.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  3. 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
  4. 4.📅 The digits 13012000 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1301/20/00 (b) 13/01/2000 (c) 13/0120/00 (d) 130/120/00
  5. 5.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
  6. 6.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 4 (W) stand for? (a) west (b) east (c) north (d) south
  7. 7.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 194 and 7
  8. 8.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) violet (b) green (c) red (d) yellow
  9. 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, candle, apple, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MACB (b) BCAM (c) CBAM (d) CAMB
  10. 10.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) free (b) long (c) fast (d) cold
  11. 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 289351803. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 289 351 80 (b) 283 951 803 (c) 289 351 803 (d) 288 935 1803
  12. 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 8128021066. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 812 802 11066 (b) 812 802 1066 (c) 818 021 066 (d) 812 801 2066
  13. 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) ROYGBIV (d) VIBGYOR
  14. 14.📅 The digits 21061959 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 210/619/59 (b) 21/06/1959 (c) 21/0619/59 (d) 2106/19/59
  15. 15.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) clock (d) king
  16. 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tea (b) sing (c) swing (d) spring
  17. 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) SWG (c) WGS (d) WSG
  18. 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 3100773734. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 310 077 334 (b) 310 077 3734 (c) 310 077 37734 (d) 301 077 3734
  19. 19.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) you like spelling (c) the list is short (d) the letters make no word
  20. 20.📅 The digits 06071987 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 060/719/87 (b) 06/07/1987 (c) 0607/19/87 (d) 06/0719/87
  21. 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) ton (b) one (c) done (d) bake
  22. 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) ELPA (c) LEPA (d) APLE
  23. 23.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
  24. 24.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  25. 25.📅 The digits 23122023 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2312/20/23 (b) 23/1220/23 (c) 231/220/23 (d) 23/12/2023
  26. 26.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  27. 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Neat Seven Wise (b) Neat Eight Seven Wise (c) Wise Seven Eight Neat (d) Eight Seven Wise Neat
  28. 28.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) is very long (c) changes daily (d) means something to you
  29. 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Eight Pink Cats (b) Eight Crazy Pink Cats (c) Crazy Pink Cats Eight (d) Cats Pink Crazy Eight
  30. 30.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
  31. 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for goat, umbrella, nest, tiger is “Goats ___ Nani Tiny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Sing (b) Uncle (c) Jump (d) Cook
  32. 32.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 2 (S) stand for? (a) root (b) stem (c) flower (d) leaf
  33. 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) block (b) tea (c) bright (d) cane
  34. 34.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  35. 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) thing (b) lane (c) chain (d) train
  36. 36.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 7 (U) stand for? (a) Uranus (b) Neptune (c) Mercury (d) Earth
  38. 38.🔤 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) AEASNAA (d) AANSAEA
  39. 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) spell (c) smell (d) sock
  40. 40.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) night (b) clock (c) sun (d) cake

Answer key

  1. NESW
  2. 2
  3. first letters as a word
  4. 13/01/2000
  5. the rainbow colours
  6. west
  7. 19 and 47
  8. green
  9. BCAM
  10. free
  11. 289 351 803
  12. 812 802 1066
  13. VIBGYOR
  14. 21/06/1959
  15. night
  16. tea
  17. SWG
  18. 310 077 3734
  19. the letters make no word
  20. 06/07/1987
  21. bake
  22. ELPA
  23. splitting into groups
  24. 3
  25. 23/12/2023
  26. 4
  27. Neat Eight Seven Wise
  28. means something to you
  29. Eight Crazy Pink Cats
  30. chunking
  31. Uncle
  32. stem
  33. cane
  34. 4
  35. thing
  36. True
  37. Uranus
  38. AANSAEA
  39. sock
  40. night

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