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 for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “___ Ants Inside Silly Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Green (b) Pink (c) Wins (d) Mum
- 2.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) star (d) one
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 2554932668. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 525 493 2668 (b) 255 493 2668 (c) 255 449 32668 (d) 255 932 668
- 4.True or false: “white” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 6.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: apple, guava, lamp? (a) Goats Lazy All (b) Lazy Goats All (c) Goats All Lazy (d) All Goats Lazy
- 7.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) VIBGYOR (c) ROYGBIV (d) IBGYORV
- 8.📅 The digits 19102003 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1910/20/03 (b) 19/1020/03 (c) 191/020/03 (d) 19/10/2003
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 4980461752. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 498 461 752 (b) 498 046 61752 (c) 498 064 1752 (d) 498 046 1752
- 10.True or false: “tell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 11.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Wet Sing Every Nani (b) Every Sing Wet Nani (c) Every Nani Sing Wet (d) Nani Every Sing Wet
- 12.True or false: “snake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: candle, key, duck, anchor, jalebi. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KCDAJ (b) KDAJC (c) JADKC (d) CKDAJ
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Lions Fly Runs (b) Runs Sing Lions Fly (c) Fly Lions Sing Runs (d) Sing Runs Lions Fly
- 15.True or false: “run” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shell (b) sell (c) well (d) thing
- 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) APLE (b) LEPA (c) LPAE (d) ELPA
- 18.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) one word holds a list (c) they need no learning (d) they always rhyme
- 19.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 20.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) tree (d) night
- 21.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) reading very fast (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) ESWN (b) WSEN (c) NESW (d) ENSW
- 23.📝 A list to learn, in order: whistle, spoon, duck, pencil. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) WSDP (b) SWDP (c) PDSW (d) SDPW
- 24.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) SWG (c) WGS (d) GWS
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “___ Funny My All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Red (b) Crazy (c) Jolly (d) Mum
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) one with no picture (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: anchor, jalebi, glass? (a) Jump Ants Grab (b) Jump Grab Ants (c) Grab Jump Ants (d) Ants Jump Grab
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink ___ Ice Sing Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dogs (b) Wise (c) Yaks (d) All
- 29.🔢 You want to remember the number 8158748807. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 818 574 8807 (b) 158 748 807 (c) 815 874 48807 (d) 815 874 8807
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) thing (c) spring (d) sing
- 31.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
- 33.📅 The digits 06031961 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0603/19/61 (b) 06/0319/61 (c) 060/319/61 (d) 06/03/1961
- 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Frogs Mice Aunty (b) Aunty Mice Frogs Jolly (c) Frogs Mice Aunty Jolly (d) Frogs Jolly Mice Aunty
- 35.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 36.True or false: “three” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) it is printed bigger (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it is a smaller number
- 38.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: owl, guava, duck, spoon. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OGDS (b) GDSO (c) SDGO (d) GODS
- 40.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
Answer key
- Pink
- one
- 255 493 2668
- True
- an acronym
- All Goats Lazy
- VIBGYOR
- 19/10/2003
- 498 046 1752
- True
- Nani Every Sing Wet
- True
- CKDAJ
- Runs Sing Lions Fly
- False
- thing
- ELPA
- one word holds a list
- first letters as a word
- night
- splitting into groups
- NESW
- WSDP
- SWG
- Jolly
- a silly, funny one
- Ants Jump Grab
- All
- 815 874 8807
- shock
- False
- the rainbow colours
- 06/03/1961
- Jolly Frogs Mice Aunty
- 2
- True
- three chunks, not ten
- 6
- OGDS
- 9
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