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.True or false: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bee (b) snake (c) thing (d) well
- 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) in ABC order (c) in any order (d) backwards
- 5.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) chunking (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 6.🔢 You want to remember the number 839397949. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 839 397 99 (b) 839 397 949 (c) 839 397 7949 (d) 839 937 949
- 7.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) collection (b) evaporation (c) condensation (d) precipitation
- 8.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 10.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is a smaller number (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is printed bigger
- 11.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) what each letter means (c) nothing else (d) its spelling backwards
- 12.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) an acronym (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 13.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) planet (c) world (d) one
- 14.🔢 You want to remember the number 398109821114. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 3398 1098 21114 (b) 3981 0982 1114 (c) 3981 9082 1114 (d) 3981 0821 114
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the oceans, biggest first, in order: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic? (a) APISA (b) PAISA (c) ASIAP (d) AISAP
- 16.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 17.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) saffron (b) white (c) green
- 18.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 19.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) CPCE (c) ECPC (d) ECCP
- 20.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bite (b) swing (c) thing (d) sing
- 22.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) precipitation (b) evaporation (c) condensation (d) collection
- 24.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) white (b) saffron (c) green
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 2169896935. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 216 989 96935 (b) 216 989 695 (c) 216 986 9935 (d) 216 989 6935
- 26.🔢 You want to remember the number 710946354. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 710 946 54 (b) 710 943 654 (c) 710 946 354 (d) 710 946 3544
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) block (b) knock (c) sock (d) shell
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lake (b) tell (c) bake (d) rake
- 29.🔢 You want to remember the number 771373084650. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7713 7380 4650 (b) 7713 7308 46550 (c) 7137 3084 650 (d) 7713 7308 4650
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bun (b) run (c) fun (d) rock
- 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 996742339. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 996 742 3339 (b) 996 742 339 (c) 996 742 39 (d) 996 724 339
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wise Silly Every Neat (b) Every Silly Wise Neat (c) Every Neat Silly Wise (d) Neat Every Silly Wise
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umbrella, kite, pencil? (a) Kind Pigs Uncle (b) Kind Uncle Pigs (c) Uncle Kind Pigs (d) Pigs Kind Uncle
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “___ Aunty Neat Seven All Every Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Lazy (b) All (c) Pink (d) Wet
- 35.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mirror, igloo, candle, pillow is “My Ice Crazy ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Seven (b) Pink (c) Ants (d) Bunny
- 36.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Atlantic (b) Southern (c) Indian (d) Pacific
- 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) fast (c) free (d) long
- 38.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) January (b) April (c) February (d) March
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: umpire, lamp, bucket, parrot, igloo. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LBPIU (b) LUBPI (c) ULBPI (d) IPBLU
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, bucket, inkpot? (a) Ink Big Crazy (b) Big Crazy Ink (c) Crazy Big Ink (d) Big Ink Crazy
Answer key
- True
- snake
- first letters as a word
- in the same order
- a first-letter sentence
- 839 397 949
- precipitation
- False
- 2
- three chunks, not ten
- what each letter means
- an acronym
- one
- 3981 0982 1114
- PAISA
- 8
- saffron
- 5
- ECPC
- 3
- bite
- False
- condensation
- white
- 216 989 6935
- 710 946 354
- shell
- tell
- 7713 7308 4650
- rock
- 996 742 339
- Neat Every Silly Wise
- Uncle Kind Pigs
- All
- Pink
- Indian
- free
- February
- ULBPI
- Crazy Big Ink
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