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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 651 · 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.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) one word holds a list (b) they always rhyme (c) they need no learning (d) they are longer
  2. 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) FMAJ (c) AMFJ (d) FJMA
  3. 3.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) adult (b) larva (c) pupa (d) egg
  4. 4.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 6 (E) stand for? (a) North America (b) Africa (c) Asia (d) Europe
  5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Eat Lazy Pigs Aunty (b) Aunty Pigs Lazy Eat (c) Lazy Pigs Aunty Eat (d) Lazy Eat Pigs Aunty
  6. 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “___ Cats Pigs Cats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Only (c) Eat (d) Crazy
  7. 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a very long one (c) one with no picture (d) a dull, plain one
  8. 8.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) the list is short (c) you like spelling (d) there is no list
  9. 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Nani Every Seven Wet (b) Every Seven Wet Nani (c) Every Nani Seven Wet (d) Wet Seven Every Nani
  10. 10.📅 The digits 24111999 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 24/1119/99 (b) 241/119/99 (c) 24/11/1999 (d) 2411/19/99
  11. 11.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) condensation (c) collection (d) precipitation
  12. 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) plane (b) run (c) swing (d) bright
  13. 13.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Southern (c) Pacific (d) Indian
  14. 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) free (b) cold (c) fast (d) long
  15. 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) SRLF (c) FLSR (d) SLFR
  16. 16.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
  17. 17.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) first letters as a word
  18. 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: kettle, bucket, pillow? (a) Big Kites Play (b) Play Big Kites (c) Kites Big Play (d) Big Play Kites
  19. 19.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Pacific (c) Southern (d) Indian
  20. 20.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) change it each day (b) say it aloud often (c) read it once silently (d) never say it
  21. 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Eight Pigs Cats (b) Eight Cook Pigs Cats (c) Cats Pigs Cook Eight (d) Cook Pigs Cats Eight
  22. 22.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only numbers (d) only pictures
  23. 23.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) twice (b) more (c) again (d) fast
  24. 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rose, onion, ant? (a) Only Rani Aunty (b) Rani Only Aunty (c) Only Aunty Rani (d) Aunty Only Rani
  25. 25.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jeep, rope, kite? (a) Jeeps Runs Kind (b) Kind Runs Jeeps (c) Runs Kind Jeeps (d) Runs Jeeps Kind
  27. 27.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) changes daily (c) means something to you (d) has no pattern
  28. 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: whistle, onion, doll, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OWDM (b) MDOW (c) WODM (d) ODMW
  29. 29.📅 The digits 23011968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 230/119/68 (b) 23/01/1968 (c) 23/0119/68 (d) 2301/19/68
  30. 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) ton (b) bun (c) wing (d) run
  31. 31.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 3 (N) stand for? (a) Asia (b) Australia (c) South America (d) North America
  32. 32.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in the same order (c) in any order (d) backwards
  33. 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: radio, vase, kite, jalebi, banana. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VRKJB (b) VKJBR (c) BJKVR (d) RVKJB
  34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Funny Mice Aunty (b) Funny Jolly Mice Aunty (c) Aunty Mice Funny Jolly (d) Funny Mice Aunty Jolly
  35. 35.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 4 (C) stand for? (a) evaporation (b) condensation (c) precipitation (d) collection
  36. 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: van, ice cream, kettle? (a) Kites Ink Vans (b) Ink Vans Kites (c) Vans Ink Kites (d) Ink Kites Vans
  37. 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECCP (b) CPCE (c) CEPC (d) ECPC
  38. 38.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) ROYGBIV (d) IVBGYOR
  39. 39.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a very long word (b) a list of numbers (c) a rhyme about cats (d) initials match the list
  40. 40.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) a times-table rhyme (c) date chunks (d) a first-letter sentence

Answer key

  1. one word holds a list
  2. JFMA
  3. egg
  4. Europe
  5. Eat Lazy Pigs Aunty
  6. Eat
  7. a silly, funny one
  8. the letters make no word
  9. Nani Every Seven Wet
  10. 24/11/1999
  11. precipitation
  12. run
  13. Pacific
  14. free
  15. RSLF
  16. a first-letter sentence
  17. first letters as a word
  18. Kites Big Play
  19. Indian
  20. say it aloud often
  21. Eight Cook Pigs Cats
  22. numbers and letter lists
  23. more
  24. Rani Only Aunty
  25. True
  26. Jeeps Runs Kind
  27. means something to you
  28. WODM
  29. 23/01/1968
  30. wing
  31. North America
  32. in the same order
  33. RVKJB
  34. Jolly Funny Mice Aunty
  35. collection
  36. Vans Ink Kites
  37. ECPC
  38. VIBGYOR
  39. initials match the list
  40. a first-letter sentence

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