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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 694 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 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. 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) well (c) tell (d) spell
  4. 4.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a memory trick (c) a long book (d) a kind of pen
  5. 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. 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. 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. 8.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) done (b) lock (c) bright (d) string
  9. 9.🔢 A 12-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  10. 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) lane (b) snake (c) block (d) write
  11. 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) key (b) sea (c) tea (d) rock
  12. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 21.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) snake (b) cane (c) bake (d) lock
  22. 22.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  23. 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. 24.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) rain (d) clock
  25. 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. 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. 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. 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. 29.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the planets (d) the rainbow colours
  30. 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. 31.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) only pictures (b) numbers and letter lists (c) nothing at all (d) only numbers
  32. 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. 33.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  34. 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. 35.🎵 Which word does “free” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) tree (c) night (d) cake
  36. 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. 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. 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. 39.True or false: “bun” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
  40. 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

  1. in the same order
  2. Neat Fly Vans
  3. wake
  4. a memory trick
  5. 11/05/2016
  6. WRASF
  7. a beat or a tune
  8. lock
  9. 4
  10. block
  11. rock
  12. Tea
  13. three chunks, not ten
  14. a list in a fixed order
  15. initials match the list
  16. Australia
  17. JFMA
  18. True
  19. 08/01/1952
  20. east
  21. cane
  22. False
  23. Jump Up Dance
  24. sun
  25. 448 191 4935
  26. February
  27. Grab Cook Inside
  28. say it aloud often
  29. the rainbow colours
  30. Eat Lazy Pigs Aunty
  31. numbers and letter lists
  32. a silly, funny one
  33. 5
  34. what each letter means
  35. tree
  36. Rani Seven Lions Funny
  37. chunking
  38. 2563 3979 7908
  39. True
  40. more

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