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 life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LPAE (b) LEPA (c) APLE (d) ELPA
- 2.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 1 (V) stand for? (a) violet (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
- 3.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, onion, drum? (a) Only Bunny Dogs (b) Dogs Only Bunny (c) Bunny Only Dogs (d) Only Dogs Bunny
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Neat Eat Sing Wise (b) Eat Sing Wise Neat (c) Wise Sing Eat Neat (d) Eat Neat Sing Wise
- 5.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: whistle, violin, onion? (a) Wise Vines Only (b) Only Vines Wise (c) Vines Only Wise (d) Vines Wise Only
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, umpire, jalebi? (a) Nine Up Jump (b) Up Jump Nine (c) Jump Up Nine (d) Up Nine Jump
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 493997930. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 493 979 930 (b) 493 997 90 (c) 493 997 930 (d) 449 399 7930
- 9.📝 A list to learn, in order: candle, onion, van, drum, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OVDPC (b) OCVDP (c) PDVOC (d) COVDP
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) one with no picture (c) a dull, plain one (d) a very long one
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) JFMA (b) AMFJ (c) FMAJ (d) FJMA
- 12.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 1 9 4 7 (b) 19 and 47 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 194 and 7
- 13.True or false: “thing” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 14.📝 A list to learn, in order: rope, jug, apple, monkey. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RJAM (b) JRAM (c) MAJR (d) JAMR
- 15.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the planets (c) the months (d) the oceans
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Sing Lazy Fly (b) Fly Lazy Sing Rani (c) Sing Rani Lazy Fly (d) Sing Lazy Fly Rani
- 17.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a type of exam (d) a memory trick
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: duck, anchor, banana? (a) Aunty Big Dogs (b) Dogs Aunty Big (c) Big Aunty Dogs (d) Aunty Dogs Big
- 19.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) CPCE (c) ECCP (d) ECPC
- 20.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) king (d) sun
- 21.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) NUSJMEVM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VMEMJSUN
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, kite, goat? (a) Goats Kind Jolly (b) Kind Jolly Goats (c) Jolly Kind Goats (d) Kind Goats Jolly
- 23.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) there is no list (c) the list is short (d) you like spelling
- 24.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) a beat or a tune (b) saying it once quietly (c) writing it tiny (d) no rhythm at all
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 7919639024. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 719 963 9024 (b) 799 196 39024 (c) 791 963 902 (d) 791 963 9024
- 26.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IVBGYOR (c) IBGYORV (d) VIBGYOR
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) shake (b) string (c) lake (d) main
- 28.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umbrella, owl, coconut? (a) Owls Uncle Crazy (b) Uncle Owls Crazy (c) Crazy Owls Uncle (d) Owls Crazy Uncle
- 30.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) sing (b) sock (c) snake (d) well
- 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 8926419916. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 892 641 9916 (b) 829 641 9916 (c) 892 641 99916 (d) 892 641 916
- 32.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in ABC order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
- 34.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 35.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) South America (b) Asia (c) Antarctica (d) Africa
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 4069363017. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 069 363 017 (b) 406 936 63017 (c) 406 936 3017 (d) 409 636 3017
- 37.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Aunty Mum Fly Jeeps (b) Jeeps Fly Mum Aunty (c) Fly Jeeps Mum Aunty (d) Fly Mum Aunty Jeeps
- 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) sea (b) sell (c) sing (d) lake
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Eat Pigs Cats (b) Eat Cats Cats Pigs (c) Eat Cats Pigs Cats (d) Cats Pigs Cats Eat
- 40.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- ELPA
- violet
- Bunny Only Dogs
- Neat Eat Sing Wise
- what each letter means
- Wise Vines Only
- Nine Up Jump
- 493 997 930
- COVDP
- a silly, funny one
- JFMA
- 19 and 47
- True
- RJAM
- the rainbow colours
- Rani Sing Lazy Fly
- a memory trick
- Dogs Aunty Big
- ECPC
- cake
- MVEMJSUN
- Jolly Kind Goats
- the letters make no word
- a beat or a tune
- 791 963 9024
- VIBGYOR
- main
- 5
- Uncle Owls Crazy
- snake
- 892 641 9916
- False
- in the same order
- 2
- Antarctica
- 406 936 3017
- Jeeps Fly Mum Aunty
- sing
- Eat Cats Pigs Cats
- False
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