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 oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) AISAP (b) PAISA (c) ASIAP (d) APISA
- 2.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 1116642345. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 116 642 345 (b) 111 166 42345 (c) 111 664 2345 (d) 116 164 2345
- 4.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) FJMA
- 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for nest, van, cat, kettle is “Nine Vans Crazy ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Love (b) Funny (c) Kites (d) All
- 6.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for nest, glass, onion, flute, mango is “Nani Grab Only ___ Mum”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pink (b) Lazy (c) Vans (d) Funny
- 8.📝 A list to learn, in order: cat, pillow, apple, onion, bucket. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CPAOB (b) PCAOB (c) PAOBC (d) BOAPC
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a very long one (c) a dull, plain one (d) a silly, funny one
- 10.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) you like spelling (b) the letters make no word (c) there is no list (d) the list is short
- 11.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the rainbow colours (c) the months (d) the planets
- 12.📅 The digits 15061950 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 150/619/50 (b) 15/06/1950 (c) 15/0619/50 (d) 1506/19/50
- 13.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 14.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 4 (C) stand for? (a) collection (b) precipitation (c) evaporation (d) condensation
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Nani Every Silly Wise (b) Every Nani Silly Wise (c) Wise Silly Every Nani (d) Every Silly Wise Nani
- 16.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) a list of numbers
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Every Play Cook (b) Every Cook Cook Play (c) Every Cook Play Cook (d) Cook Play Cook Every
- 18.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jolly Fly My ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Toys (b) Cook (c) Aunty (d) Wins
- 20.🔢 You want to remember the number 5318774283. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 538 177 4283 (b) 531 877 42283 (c) 531 877 4283 (d) 531 874 283
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty Mum Frogs Jolly (b) Frogs Jolly Mum Aunty (c) Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty (d) Frogs Mum Aunty Jolly
- 22.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) read it once silently (b) change it each day (c) never say it (d) say it aloud often
- 24.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) write (b) sing (c) smell (d) lake
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Sing Wins Nani (b) Wins Sing Eat Nani (c) Eat Nani Sing Wins (d) Nani Eat Sing Wins
- 26.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) sing (c) thing (d) brain
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lock (b) shell (c) smell (d) tell
- 30.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) first letters as a word (d) a type of number
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eight Seven Wet Neat (b) Wet Seven Eight Neat (c) Eight Neat Seven Wet (d) Neat Eight Seven Wet
- 32.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: NESW for the four directions, clockwise? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for watch, rose, coconut, key, igloo is “___ Rani Cats Kids Ice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pink (b) Grab (c) Love (d) Wise
- 34.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) free (c) long (d) fast
- 35.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 36.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 37.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mum Vines Every My Jump Silly Uncle ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Nani (b) Bunny (c) Play (d) All
- 38.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 39.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 40.📅 The digits 05091993 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/0919/93 (b) 050/919/93 (c) 05/09/1993 (d) 0509/19/93
Answer key
- PAISA
- False
- 111 664 2345
- JFMA
- Kites
- 4
- Funny
- CPAOB
- a silly, funny one
- the letters make no word
- the rainbow colours
- 15/06/1950
- 6
- collection
- Nani Every Silly Wise
- initials match the list
- Every Cook Play Cook
- 4
- Aunty
- 531 877 4283
- Jolly Frogs Mum Aunty
- True
- say it aloud often
- write
- Nani Eat Sing Wins
- True
- 8
- brain
- lock
- first letters as a word
- Neat Eight Seven Wet
- an acronym
- Wise
- free
- 5
- chunking
- Nani
- 5
- False
- 05/09/1993
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