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 first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: tent, pillow, flute? (a) Toys Pink Fly (b) Fly Pink Toys (c) Pink Toys Fly (d) Pink Fly Toys
- 2.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 3.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bee (b) sea (c) swing (d) knee
- 5.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pigs Cook Every (b) Every Crazy Pigs Cook (c) Cook Pigs Crazy Every (d) Crazy Every Pigs Cook
- 7.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LEPA (b) ELPA (c) APLE (d) LPAE
- 8.✏️ 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
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SRLF (b) RSLF (c) SLFR (d) FLSR
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a very long one (d) a silly, funny one
- 11.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for rose, banana, sock, kite, frog is “___ Bakes Sing Kind Funny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Green (b) Dad (c) Red (d) Pigs
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECPC (c) ECCP (d) CEPC
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 707284104. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 707 824 104 (b) 707 284 104 (c) 707 241 04 (d) 700 728 4104
- 15.🔢 A 15-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 16.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) changes daily (b) means something to you (c) is very long (d) has no pattern
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Seven Wise Goats (b) Wise Seven Goats (c) Goats Wise Seven (d) Wise Goats Seven
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) WSEN (c) ENSW (d) NESW
- 19.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the planets
- 20.📅 The digits 24021967 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2402/19/67 (b) 240/219/67 (c) 24/0219/67 (d) 24/02/1967
- 21.🎵 Which word does “well” rhyme with? (a) night (b) sun (c) bell (d) tree
- 22.📝 A list to learn, in order: ball, nest, candle, onion. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NBCO (b) NCOB (c) OCNB (d) BNCO
- 23.🔢 You want to remember the number 502349696469. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5023 4969 6469 (b) 5023 4969 6496 (c) 5023 4969 646 (d) 5023 4969 96469
- 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: rose, parrot, ant, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RPAF (b) PRAF (c) PAFR (d) FAPR
- 25.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) sun (c) king (d) tree
- 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 27.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Rani Silly Lions ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Silly (b) Funny (c) Jump (d) Up
- 29.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) lake (b) ton (c) bee (d) make
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wise Sing Eight Neat (b) Neat Eight Sing Wise (c) Eight Neat Sing Wise (d) Eight Sing Wise Neat
- 31.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) APISA (c) ASIAP (d) PAISA
- 33.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🔢 You want to remember the number 6617211782. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 661 721 1728 (b) 661 772 11782 (c) 617 211 782 (d) 661 721 1782
- 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) block (b) cane (c) sock (d) rock
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, spoon, ant? (a) Sing Kind Ants (b) Ants Sing Kind (c) Sing Ants Kind (d) Kind Sing Ants
- 37.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only pictures (b) only numbers (c) nothing at all (d) numbers and letter lists
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 39.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
- 40.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) spring (b) rake (c) bite (d) tell
Answer key
- Toys Pink Fly
- chunking
- False
- swing
- what each letter means
- Every Crazy Pigs Cook
- ELPA
- the letters make no word
- RSLF
- a silly, funny one
- False
- Red
- ECPC
- 707 284 104
- 5
- means something to you
- Seven Wise Goats
- NESW
- the rainbow colours
- 24/02/1967
- bell
- BNCO
- 5023 4969 6469
- RPAF
- sun
- a rhyme
- a first-letter sentence
- Funny
- bee
- Neat Eight Sing Wise
- True
- PAISA
- False
- 661 721 1782
- cane
- Kind Sing Ants
- numbers and letter lists
- a first-letter sentence
- initials match the list
- tell
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