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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, fan, vase? (a) Vans Fly Neat (b) Fly Vans Neat (c) Fly Neat Vans (d) Neat Fly Vans
- 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) well (c) tell (d) spell
- 4.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a memory trick (c) a long book (d) a kind of pen
- 5.📅 The digits 11052016 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 110/520/16 (b) 11/0520/16 (c) 1105/20/16 (d) 11/05/2016
- 6.📝 A list to learn, in order: whistle, rope, apple, sock, flute. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) RASFW (b) WRASF (c) FSARW (d) RWASF
- 7.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) saying it once quietly (b) no rhythm at all (c) a beat or a tune (d) writing it tiny
- 8.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) done (b) lock (c) bright (d) string
- 9.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) lane (b) snake (c) block (d) write
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) key (b) sea (c) tea (d) rock
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for lamp, tiger, ant, mirror is “Lazy ___ All Mice”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Young (b) Old (c) Ink (d) Tea
- 13.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it has fewer digits (c) it is printed bigger (d) it is a smaller number
- 14.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a maths sum (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a long story
- 15.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) initials match the list (c) a rhyme about cats (d) a very long word
- 16.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) South America (b) Antarctica (c) Australia (d) Europe
- 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) FJMA (c) JFMA (d) AMFJ
- 18.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 19.📅 The digits 08011952 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 08/01/1952 (b) 080/119/52 (c) 0801/19/52 (d) 08/0119/52
- 20.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) north (b) west (c) south (d) east
- 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) snake (b) cane (c) bake (d) lock
- 22.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 23.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, umbrella, drum? (a) Up Dance Jump (b) Dance Up Jump (c) Jump Up Dance (d) Up Jump Dance
- 24.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) rain (d) clock
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 4481914935. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 448 191 49935 (b) 448 191 4953 (c) 448 191 4935 (d) 448 191 935
- 26.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) February (d) January
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: guava, candle, ice cream? (a) Inside Cook Grab (b) Cook Inside Grab (c) Grab Cook Inside (d) Cook Grab Inside
- 28.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) never say it (b) say it aloud often (c) change it each day (d) read it once silently
- 29.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Eat Pigs Aunty (b) Lazy Pigs Aunty Eat (c) Eat Lazy Pigs Aunty (d) Aunty Pigs Lazy Eat
- 31.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only pictures (b) numbers and letter lists (c) nothing at all (d) only numbers
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a silly, funny one (c) one with no picture (d) a very long one
- 33.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 34.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) what each letter means (d) its spelling backwards
- 35.🎵 Which word does “free” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) tree (c) night (d) cake
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Seven Lions Funny (b) Seven Lions Funny Rani (c) Funny Lions Seven Rani (d) Seven Rani Lions Funny
- 37.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 38.🔢 You want to remember the number 256339797908. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2563 3979 7908 (b) 2653 3979 7908 (c) 2563 3397 97908 (d) 2563 3977 908
- 39.True or false: “bun” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) more (c) twice (d) again
Answer key
- in the same order
- Neat Fly Vans
- wake
- a memory trick
- 11/05/2016
- WRASF
- a beat or a tune
- lock
- 4
- block
- rock
- Tea
- three chunks, not ten
- a list in a fixed order
- initials match the list
- Australia
- JFMA
- True
- 08/01/1952
- east
- cane
- False
- Jump Up Dance
- sun
- 448 191 4935
- February
- Grab Cook Inside
- say it aloud often
- the rainbow colours
- Eat Lazy Pigs Aunty
- numbers and letter lists
- a silly, funny one
- 5
- what each letter means
- tree
- Rani Seven Lions Funny
- chunking
- 2563 3979 7908
- True
- more
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