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.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a long book (c) a kind of pen (d) a memory trick
- 2.🎵 Which word does “knock” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) rain (c) night (d) cake
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Eat Pigs Cats (b) Cats Pigs Cats Eat (c) Eat Cats Cats Pigs (d) Eat Cats Pigs Cats
- 4.🔢 You want to remember the number 608322681. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 608 322 681 (b) 608 322 2681 (c) 680 322 681 (d) 608 322 81
- 5.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) changes daily (b) has no pattern (c) is very long (d) means something to you
- 6.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) splitting into groups (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 7.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a drawing
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Crazy Eat (b) Crazy Play Cats Eat (c) Eat Cats Play Crazy (d) Cats Eat Play Crazy
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lane (b) sock (c) chain (d) main
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: radio, ladder, banana? (a) Love Runs Bakes (b) Bakes Love Runs (c) Love Bakes Runs (d) Runs Love Bakes
- 11.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 197013416. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 179 013 416 (b) 197 013 16 (c) 197 701 3416 (d) 197 013 416
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: onion, flute, jalebi? (a) Funny Old Jolly (b) Funny Jolly Old (c) Old Funny Jolly (d) Jolly Funny Old
- 14.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) green (b) saffron (c) white
- 15.True or false: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 16.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mirror, jeep, rope, ball is “My Jump ___ Big”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Love (b) Runs (c) Dad (d) Ants
- 17.🎵 Which word does “string” rhyme with? (a) night (b) bell (c) king (d) cake
- 18.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: key, coconut, banana? (a) Kids Cook Bunny (b) Cook Bunny Kids (c) Cook Kids Bunny (d) Bunny Cook Kids
- 20.📅 The digits 11121976 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 11/12/1976 (b) 1112/19/76 (c) 11/1219/76 (d) 111/219/76
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Lazy Every (b) Lazy Pink All Every (c) Lazy Every Pink All (d) Every Lazy Pink All
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 575402253. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 554 022 53 (b) 575 402 253 (c) 575 400 2253 (d) 557 402 253
- 23.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) RSLF (b) FLSR (c) SLFR (d) SRLF
- 24.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 1368897456. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 136 889 746 (b) 136 888 97456 (c) 136 889 7456 (d) 136 889 7465
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: igloo, coconut, umpire? (a) Inside Cook Up (b) Cook Up Inside (c) Cook Inside Up (d) Up Cook Inside
- 27.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
- 28.📅 The digits 08121978 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 081/219/78 (b) 0812/19/78 (c) 08/1219/78 (d) 08/12/1978
- 29.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a maths sum (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a picture
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Nine Sing Wins (b) Wins Sing Every Nine (c) Nine Every Sing Wins (d) Every Sing Wins Nine
- 31.🎵 Which word does “lane” rhyme with? (a) king (b) sun (c) rain (d) cake
- 32.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
- 33.📝 A list to learn, in order: shoe, jug, duck, mirror, cat. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JDMCS (b) CMDJS (c) SJDMC (d) JSDMC
- 34.🧰 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
- 35.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) world (b) one (c) star (d) planet
- 36.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) bell (c) king (d) night
- 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
- 38.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) true (c) known (d) right
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) shock (b) key (c) cane (d) well
- 40.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) saffron (b) white (c) green
Answer key
- a memory trick
- clock
- Eat Cats Pigs Cats
- 608 322 681
- means something to you
- splitting into groups
- first letters as a word
- Eat Cats Play Crazy
- sock
- Runs Love Bakes
- 8
- 197 013 416
- Old Funny Jolly
- saffron
- False
- Runs
- king
- what each letter means
- Kids Cook Bunny
- 11/12/1976
- Every Lazy Pink All
- 575 402 253
- RSLF
- an acronym
- 136 889 7456
- Inside Cook Up
- a rhyme
- 08/12/1978
- a list in a fixed order
- Nine Every Sing Wins
- rain
- the rainbow colours
- SJDMC
- a first-letter sentence
- one
- night
- a rhyme
- true
- cane
- white
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