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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 676 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🔢 You want to remember the number 762809554. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 762 809 545 (b) 762 280 9554 (c) 762 895 54 (d) 762 809 554
  2. 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 3766637690. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 376 663 7690 (b) 376 663 760 (c) 376 663 76690 (d) 367 663 7690
  3. 3.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) brain (b) train (c) thing (d) wake
  4. 4.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a maths sum (d) a picture
  5. 5.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) you like spelling (c) there is no list (d) the letters make no word
  7. 7.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
  8. 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in any order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
  9. 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) light (b) three (c) kite (d) white
  10. 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “Mice Vans Every Mice Jolly Silly Up ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tiny (b) Cats (c) Nine (d) Eight
  11. 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
  12. 12.📝 A list to learn, in order: monkey, lemon, tent, pencil, key. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LMTPK (b) LTPKM (c) MLTPK (d) KPTLM
  13. 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jeep, banana, ant? (a) Big Aunty Jeeps (b) Big Jeeps Aunty (c) Aunty Big Jeeps (d) Jeeps Big Aunty
  14. 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: fan, duck, orange? (a) Dogs Old Fly (b) Fly Dogs Old (c) Old Dogs Fly (d) Dogs Fly Old
  15. 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wins Sing Eight Nine (b) Eight Sing Wins Nine (c) Nine Eight Sing Wins (d) Eight Nine Sing Wins
  16. 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, spoon, inkpot, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FISB (b) BSIF (c) SBIF (d) SIFB
  17. 17.📅 The digits 19031999 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1903/19/99 (b) 19/03/1999 (c) 19/0319/99 (d) 190/319/99
  18. 18.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📝 A list to learn, in order: apple, doll, pencil, urn. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UPDA (b) DPUA (c) ADPU (d) DAPU
  20. 20.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
  21. 21.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) what each letter means (c) nothing else (d) its spelling backwards
  22. 22.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the rainbow colours (c) the months (d) the planets
  23. 23.🎵 Which word does “bake” rhyme with? (a) night (b) cake (c) sun (d) king
  24. 24.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) nothing at all (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym word
  25. 25.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) brain (c) lake (d) shake
  27. 27.📝 A list to learn, in order: pillow, shoe, fan, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) PSFM (b) SFMP (c) MFSP (d) SPFM
  28. 28.🔢 You want to remember the number 3977763560. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 397 773 560 (b) 397 776 5360 (c) 399 777 63560 (d) 397 776 3560
  29. 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: ant, umbrella, guava? (a) Green Under Ants (b) Ants Under Green (c) Under Green Ants (d) Under Ants Green
  30. 30.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) lock (c) thing (d) knock
  33. 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Lions Eight (b) Eight Lions Pink All (c) Lions Eight Pink All (d) Lions Pink All Eight
  34. 34.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
  35. 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) train (b) run (c) sock (d) snake
  36. 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 6322661634. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 632 266 1634 (b) 322 661 634 (c) 632 226 61634 (d) 632 626 1634
  37. 37.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) light (b) ton (c) white (d) bright
  38. 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) wing (b) one (c) knee (d) string
  39. 39.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 8 (N) stand for? (a) Earth (b) Neptune (c) Mars (d) Mercury
  40. 40.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) chunking (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme

Answer key

  1. 762 809 554
  2. 376 663 7690
  3. wake
  4. a list in a fixed order
  5. True
  6. the letters make no word
  7. splitting into groups
  8. in the same order
  9. three
  10. Nine
  11. a silly, funny one
  12. MLTPK
  13. Jeeps Big Aunty
  14. Fly Dogs Old
  15. Nine Eight Sing Wins
  16. BSIF
  17. 19/03/1999
  18. False
  19. ADPU
  20. first letters as a word
  21. what each letter means
  22. the rainbow colours
  23. cake
  24. a first-letter sentence
  25. False
  26. brain
  27. PSFM
  28. 397 776 3560
  29. Ants Under Green
  30. False
  31. True
  32. thing
  33. Eight Lions Pink All
  34. MVEMJSUN
  35. train
  36. 632 266 1634
  37. ton
  38. one
  39. Neptune
  40. an acronym

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