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.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) AMFJ (c) JFMA (d) FJMA
- 3.📝 A list to learn, in order: owl, tent, needle, monkey, kettle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) TNMKO (b) OTNMK (c) KMNTO (d) TONMK
- 4.📅 The digits 06081951 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0608/19/51 (b) 06/08/1951 (c) 06/0819/51 (d) 060/819/51
- 5.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) they are longer (c) they need no learning (d) one word holds a list
- 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Very ___ Big Green Yaks Old Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Sing (b) Under (c) Inside (d) Play
- 7.✏️ 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
- 8.True or false: “lock” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 9.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) backwards (d) in the same order
- 10.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 7 (R) stand for? (a) green (b) orange (c) indigo (d) red
- 11.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Silly Lions Fly (b) Silly Rani Lions Fly (c) Fly Lions Silly Rani (d) Silly Lions Fly Rani
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AEASNAA (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAAE (d) AANSAEA
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 850715690. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 850 715 690 (b) 850 716 90 (c) 850 716 590 (d) 850 771 5690
- 15.📅 The digits 14092002 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 14/0920/02 (b) 1409/20/02 (c) 14/09/2002 (d) 140/920/02
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vines Every My Jump Seven Up ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nani (b) Funny (c) Cats (d) Vans
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Green Sing (b) Green Wet Sing (c) Sing Wet Green (d) Wet Sing Green
- 18.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 19.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 976713289179. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9976 7132 89179 (b) 9767 1328 9179 (c) 9767 1382 9179 (d) 9761 3289 179
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) learn (b) write (c) say (d) know
- 22.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) changes daily (c) has no pattern (d) means something to you
- 23.📅 The digits 09031989 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 09/0319/89 (b) 0903/19/89 (c) 09/03/1989 (d) 090/319/89
- 24.📝 A list to learn, in order: onion, kettle, inkpot, guava. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KIGO (b) GIKO (c) OKIG (d) KOIG
- 25.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) pupa (b) egg (c) adult (d) larva
- 26.✏️ 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
- 27.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) an acronym (b) a mind map (c) a long story (d) chunking
- 28.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
- 29.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) it is a smaller number (c) it is printed bigger (d) three chunks, not ten
- 31.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) ELPA (b) LEPA (c) APLE (d) LPAE
- 32.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Pink Ants Eat (b) Eat Lions Pink Ants (c) Ants Pink Lions Eat (d) Lions Eat Pink Ants
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for doll, lamp, cat, kite is “Dance Lazy ___ Kids”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Wins (c) Dad (d) Cook
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: key, lemon, frog? (a) Lazy Kind Frogs (b) Kind Lazy Frogs (c) Lazy Frogs Kind (d) Frogs Lazy Kind
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 6829428417. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 689 428 417 (b) 682 942 84417 (c) 682 942 8417 (d) 628 942 8417
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Frogs Lions Sing Runs (b) Runs Sing Lions Frogs (c) Sing Runs Lions Frogs (d) Sing Lions Frogs Runs
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Frogs My Ants Jump (b) Frogs Jump My Ants (c) Ants My Frogs Jump (d) Jump Frogs My Ants
- 39.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 40.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) February (d) January
Answer key
- what each letter means
- JFMA
- OTNMK
- 06/08/1951
- one word holds a list
- Inside
- initials match the list
- True
- in the same order
- red
- first letters as a word
- Rani Silly Lions Fly
- AANSAEA
- 850 715 690
- 14/09/2002
- Nani
- Sing Wet Green
- an acronym
- True
- 9767 1328 9179
- know
- means something to you
- 09/03/1989
- OKIG
- adult
- a silly, funny one
- an acronym
- the rainbow colours
- False
- three chunks, not ten
- ELPA
- 3
- Eat Lions Pink Ants
- Cook
- Kind Lazy Frogs
- 682 942 8417
- Runs Sing Lions Frogs
- Jump Frogs My Ants
- splitting into groups
- January
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