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 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.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 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.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
- 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.🔢 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.🔤 “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.📝 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.🎵 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.🔢 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.🔢 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.🔤 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.📅 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.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) clock (d) king
- 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tea (b) sing (c) swing (d) spring
- 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.📅 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) ton (b) one (c) done (d) bake
- 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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 24.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 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.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.🧰 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.✏️ 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.🔤 “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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) block (b) tea (c) bright (d) cane
- 34.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) thing (b) lane (c) chain (d) train
- 36.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔤 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) spell (c) smell (d) sock
- 40.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) night (b) clock (c) sun (d) cake
Answer key
- NESW
- 2
- first letters as a word
- 13/01/2000
- the rainbow colours
- west
- 19 and 47
- green
- BCAM
- free
- 289 351 803
- 812 802 1066
- VIBGYOR
- 21/06/1959
- night
- tea
- SWG
- 310 077 3734
- the letters make no word
- 06/07/1987
- bake
- ELPA
- splitting into groups
- 3
- 23/12/2023
- 4
- Neat Eight Seven Wise
- means something to you
- Eight Crazy Pink Cats
- chunking
- Uncle
- stem
- cane
- 4
- thing
- True
- Uranus
- AANSAEA
- sock
- night
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