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.📝 A list to learn, in order: anchor, vase, kettle, igloo, jeep. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JIKVA (b) AVKIJ (c) VKIJA (d) VAKIJ
- 2.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) initials match the list (c) a very long word (d) a rhyme about cats
- 3.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 and 947 (c) 19 and 47 (d) 1 9 4 7
- 4.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 3 (I) stand for? (a) Indian (b) Pacific (c) Southern (d) Atlantic
- 6.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) thing (b) make (c) spring (d) fight
- 7.📝 A list to learn, in order: banana, guava, watch, kite, urn. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) GWKUB (b) UKWGB (c) BGWKU (d) GBWKU
- 8.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) a mind map (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a long story
- 9.True or false: “write” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in the same order (c) backwards (d) in any order
- 11.📝 A list to learn, in order: kettle, tiger, ant, candle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CATK (b) TKAC (c) TACK (d) KTAC
- 12.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 13.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: owl, coconut, monkey? (a) Cats Mice Old (b) Cats Old Mice (c) Mice Cats Old (d) Old Cats Mice
- 14.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for rose, onion, apple, ice cream, mirror is “Rani Old Ants Ice ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bunny (b) Very (c) Seven (d) My
- 15.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is printed bigger (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it has fewer digits (d) it is a smaller number
- 16.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 17.📝 A list to learn, in order: urn, net, kettle, spoon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NUKS (b) NKSU (c) UNKS (d) SKNU
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Neat Seven Wise (b) Wise Seven Every Neat (c) Every Seven Wise Neat (d) Neat Every Seven Wise
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for igloo, jalebi, duck, rose, watch is “Ice Jolly ___ Red Wins”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dad (b) Eight (c) Aunty (d) Pigs
- 20.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) night (c) cake (d) rain
- 21.📝 A list to learn, in order: pencil, ant, coconut, net. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) ACNP (b) NCAP (c) APCN (d) PACN
- 22.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
- 23.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wing (b) one (c) done (d) bun
- 24.📅 The digits 21091966 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 210/919/66 (b) 21/0919/66 (c) 2109/19/66 (d) 21/09/1966
- 25.True or false: “free” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 26.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for flute, lemon, anchor, pencil, key is “Frogs Love ___ Play Kind”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Big (b) Dogs (c) Aunty (d) Wet
- 27.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 3 (G) stand for? (a) green (b) saffron (c) white
- 28.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) one (c) world (d) planet
- 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) GWS (c) WSG (d) WGS
- 30.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) reading very fast (c) saying it backwards (d) writing it twice
- 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for egg, larva, pupa, adult is “___ Love Pigs All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Every (b) Crazy (c) My (d) Dance
- 32.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Nani Eight Sing ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Wins (b) Tea (c) My (d) Ice
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: monkey, pencil, needle, banana. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MPNB (b) BNPM (c) PNBM (d) PMNB
- 35.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only numbers (b) only pictures (c) numbers and letter lists (d) nothing at all
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 1139073017. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 113 907 30117 (b) 113 907 3017 (c) 113 907 017 (d) 131 907 3017
- 37.📅 The digits 12111971 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1211/19/71 (b) 12/1119/71 (c) 12/11/1971 (d) 121/119/71
- 38.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: ant, violin, sock, tiger, flute. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) AVSTF (b) VASTF (c) FTSVA (d) VSTFA
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FJMA (b) FMAJ (c) AMFJ (d) JFMA
Answer key
- AVKIJ
- initials match the list
- 19 and 47
- True
- Indian
- fight
- BGWKU
- an acronym
- True
- in the same order
- KTAC
- False
- Old Cats Mice
- My
- three chunks, not ten
- chunking
- UNKS
- Neat Every Seven Wise
- Dad
- cake
- PACN
- the rainbow colours
- wing
- 21/09/1966
- True
- Aunty
- green
- one
- SWG
- splitting into groups
- Every
- 5
- Wins
- MPNB
- numbers and letter lists
- 113 907 3017
- 12/11/1971
- an acronym
- AVSTF
- JFMA
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