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.🔢 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.🔢 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) brain (b) train (c) thing (d) wake
- 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.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 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.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) writing it twice (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
- 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) light (b) three (c) kite (d) white
- 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.📅 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.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 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.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the rainbow colours (c) the months (d) the planets
- 23.🎵 Which word does “bake” rhyme with? (a) night (b) cake (c) sun (d) king
- 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.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) brain (c) lake (d) shake
- 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.🔢 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.✏️ 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.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) lock (c) thing (d) knock
- 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.🔤 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) train (b) run (c) sock (d) snake
- 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) light (b) ton (c) white (d) bright
- 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) wing (b) one (c) knee (d) string
- 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.🧰 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
- 762 809 554
- 376 663 7690
- wake
- a list in a fixed order
- True
- the letters make no word
- splitting into groups
- in the same order
- three
- Nine
- a silly, funny one
- MLTPK
- Jeeps Big Aunty
- Fly Dogs Old
- Nine Eight Sing Wins
- BSIF
- 19/03/1999
- False
- ADPU
- first letters as a word
- what each letter means
- the rainbow colours
- cake
- a first-letter sentence
- False
- brain
- PSFM
- 397 776 3560
- Ants Under Green
- False
- True
- thing
- Eight Lions Pink All
- MVEMJSUN
- train
- 632 266 1634
- ton
- one
- Neptune
- an acronym
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