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 first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: shoe, pencil, van? (a) Pigs Seven Vines (b) Pigs Vines Seven (c) Seven Pigs Vines (d) Vines Pigs Seven
- 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 481116254119. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 4811 6254 119 (b) 4811 1265 4119 (c) 4481 1162 54119 (d) 4811 1625 4119
- 3.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Pink Ants Eat (b) Love Eat Pink Ants (c) Eat Love Pink Ants (d) Ants Pink Love Eat
- 5.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) nothing at all (c) only pictures (d) only numbers
- 7.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 1 and 947 (c) 194 and 7 (d) 1 9 4 7
- 8.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) sound patterns stick (b) they are longer (c) they need no practice (d) they are always true
- 9.🎵 Which word does “spell” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) cake (c) sun (d) king
- 10.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 12.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 3 (E) stand for? (a) Jupiter (b) Venus (c) Earth (d) Uranus
- 13.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: frog, jug, drum? (a) Jeeps Dad Fly (b) Fly Jeeps Dad (c) Jeeps Fly Dad (d) Dad Jeeps Fly
- 15.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 4 (A) stand for? (a) February (b) April (c) March (d) January
- 16.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a very long word (c) initials match the list (d) a list of numbers
- 17.🔤 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
- 18.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 19.📅 The digits 27081982 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 27/08/1982 (b) 270/819/82 (c) 2708/19/82 (d) 27/0819/82
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAAE (d) AEASNAA
- 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 572569074829. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5772 5690 74829 (b) 7525 6907 4829 (c) 5725 9074 829 (d) 5725 6907 4829
- 22.True or false: “bake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🎵 Which word does “won” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) cake (c) tree (d) sun
- 24.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 5 (Y) stand for? (a) red (b) blue (c) violet (d) yellow
- 25.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 26.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, bucket, drum, ladder. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BDLC (b) BCDL (c) LDBC (d) CBDL
- 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 9388078541. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 938 807 8541 (b) 938 807 8514 (c) 938 878 541 (d) 938 880 78541
- 28.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the months (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
- 29.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a type of number (d) a drawing
- 30.📝 A list to learn, in order: goat, net, shoe, banana. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NSBG (b) GNSB (c) BSNG (d) NGSB
- 31.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) GWS (c) SWG (d) WGS
- 32.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 33.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 34.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kite, jug, urn, mirror is “___ Jump Up Mum”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wise (b) Big (c) Kind (d) Sing
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 811558826. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 811 558 862 (b) 811 558 826 (c) 815 588 26 (d) 811 558 8826
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Goats Sing (b) Wins Sing Goats (c) Goats Wins Sing (d) Sing Wins Goats
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 7997675134. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 799 767 51334 (b) 799 767 5143 (c) 799 775 134 (d) 799 767 5134
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: tiger, inkpot, vase? (a) Vans Ice Tiny (b) Tiny Ice Vans (c) Ice Vans Tiny (d) Ice Tiny Vans
- 39.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 3 (M) stand for? (a) February (b) April (c) January (d) March
- 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) tricks (b) steps (c) songs (d) games
Answer key
- Seven Pigs Vines
- 4811 1625 4119
- 8
- Eat Love Pink Ants
- False
- numbers and letter lists
- 19 and 47
- sound patterns stick
- bell
- True
- 5
- Earth
- chunking
- Fly Jeeps Dad
- April
- initials match the list
- MVEMJSUN
- an acronym
- 27/08/1982
- AANSAEA
- 5725 6907 4829
- True
- sun
- yellow
- False
- CBDL
- 938 807 8541
- the rainbow colours
- first letters as a word
- GNSB
- SWG
- splitting into groups
- False
- Kind
- 811 558 826
- Sing Wins Goats
- 799 767 5134
- Tiny Ice Vans
- March
- tricks
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