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 spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 2.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) has no pattern (c) changes daily (d) means something to you
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 1063988717. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 106 398 88717 (b) 106 398 8717 (c) 160 398 8717 (d) 063 988 717
- 4.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) clock (c) night (d) sun
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 648087925. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 648 808 7925 (b) 648 087 925 (c) 648 087 952 (d) 648 089 25
- 7.🔢 You want to remember the number 908861841. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 088 618 41 (b) 908 861 8441 (c) 980 861 841 (d) 908 861 841
- 8.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) egg (b) larva (c) pupa (d) adult
- 9.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 10.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 11.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vans Every Mice ___ Seven Uncle Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tiny (b) Jolly (c) Cats (d) Green
- 12.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 2 (L) stand for? (a) pupa (b) egg (c) adult (d) larva
- 13.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knee (b) shake (c) rake (d) make
- 15.📝 A list to learn, in order: kite, jug, radio, onion, tent. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JROTK (b) KJROT (c) JKROT (d) TORJK
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Every Pigs All (b) Every Lazy Pigs All (c) Lazy Pigs All Every (d) All Pigs Lazy Every
- 17.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ENSW (c) ESWN (d) NESW
- 19.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 20.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “___ Vans Eight My Jump Sing Uncle Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Mice (c) Under (d) Funny
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: bucket, mango, violin? (a) Mum Very Big (b) Mum Big Very (c) Big Mum Very (d) Very Mum Big
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) ECCP (c) ECPC (d) CPCE
- 23.True or false: “plane” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) wing (b) block (c) kite (d) train
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Eat Play Cook (b) Cook Play Cook Eat (c) Eat Cook Cook Play (d) Eat Cook Play Cook
- 26.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) saying it backwards
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Eat Play Aunty (b) Love Play Aunty Eat (c) Eat Love Play Aunty (d) Aunty Play Love Eat
- 28.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) nothing at all (c) only numbers (d) only pictures
- 29.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 3 (L) stand for? (a) root (b) flower (c) stem (d) leaf
- 30.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) there is no list (c) the letters make no word (d) you like spelling
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: watch, fan, vase? (a) Wet Funny Vines (b) Funny Wet Vines (c) Funny Vines Wet (d) Vines Funny Wet
- 32.📅 The digits 15032014 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 15/03/2014 (b) 1503/20/14 (c) 150/320/14 (d) 15/0320/14
- 33.True or false: “key” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “Every ___ Pigs All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kind (b) Lions (c) Wise (d) Frogs
- 35.📅 The digits 07042010 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 070/420/10 (b) 07/0420/10 (c) 0704/20/10 (d) 07/04/2010
- 36.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) ELPA (b) APLE (c) LPAE (d) LEPA
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) GWS
- 38.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 39.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kite, drum, urn, anchor, nest is “Kites ___ Under Aunty Nani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dance (b) Pigs (c) Silly (d) Goats
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a very long one (c) a dull, plain one (d) one with no picture
Answer key
- what each letter means
- means something to you
- 106 398 8717
- False
- sun
- 648 087 925
- 908 861 841
- egg
- a rhyme
- True
- Jolly
- larva
- False
- knee
- KJROT
- Every Lazy Pigs All
- an acronym
- NESW
- 6
- Mice
- Big Mum Very
- ECPC
- False
- kite
- Eat Cook Play Cook
- splitting into groups
- Eat Love Play Aunty
- numbers and letter lists
- leaf
- the letters make no word
- Wet Funny Vines
- 15/03/2014
- False
- Lions
- 07/04/2010
- ELPA
- SWG
- 3
- Dance
- a silly, funny one
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