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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 696 · 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 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. 2.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) star (d) one
  3. 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. 4.True or false: “white” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
  5. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 10.True or false: “tell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
  11. 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. 12.True or false: “snake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
  13. 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. 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. 15.True or false: “run” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shell (b) sell (c) well (d) thing
  17. 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. 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. 19.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) first letters as a word (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
  20. 20.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) tree (d) night
  21. 21.🔢 What is chunking? (a) splitting into groups (b) reading very fast (c) writing it twice (d) saying it backwards
  22. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) thing (c) spring (d) sing
  31. 31.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
  33. 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. 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. 35.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  36. 36.True or false: “three” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
  37. 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. 38.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  39. 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. 40.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?

Answer key

  1. Pink
  2. one
  3. 255 493 2668
  4. True
  5. an acronym
  6. All Goats Lazy
  7. VIBGYOR
  8. 19/10/2003
  9. 498 046 1752
  10. True
  11. Nani Every Sing Wet
  12. True
  13. CKDAJ
  14. Runs Sing Lions Fly
  15. False
  16. thing
  17. ELPA
  18. one word holds a list
  19. first letters as a word
  20. night
  21. splitting into groups
  22. NESW
  23. WSDP
  24. SWG
  25. Jolly
  26. a silly, funny one
  27. Ants Jump Grab
  28. All
  29. 815 874 8807
  30. shock
  31. False
  32. the rainbow colours
  33. 06/03/1961
  34. Jolly Frogs Mice Aunty
  35. 2
  36. True
  37. three chunks, not ten
  38. 6
  39. OGDS
  40. 9

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