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.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the oceans (b) the months (c) the rainbow colours (d) the planets
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) GWS
- 3.📅 The digits 08102001 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0810/20/01 (b) 081/020/01 (c) 08/1020/01 (d) 08/10/2001
- 4.📅 The digits 14041993 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 14/0419/93 (b) 140/419/93 (c) 14/04/1993 (d) 1404/19/93
- 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Neat Eight Sing ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Crazy (c) Wins (d) Love
- 6.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a very long word (c) a rhyme about cats (d) initials match the list
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CPCE (b) ECCP (c) ECPC (d) CEPC
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 9532446221. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 953 424 6221 (b) 953 244 6221 (c) 953 246 221 (d) 955 324 46221
- 10.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SRLF (b) RSLF (c) FLSR (d) SLFR
- 11.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) they are always true (c) they are longer (d) sound patterns stick
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for bucket, apple, jeep, pencil is “Big ___ Jump Pink”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Young (b) Big (c) Frogs (d) Aunty
- 13.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) the letters make no word (c) there is no list (d) you like spelling
- 14.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: spoon, fan, mirror? (a) Funny Seven My (b) Seven Funny My (c) Funny My Seven (d) My Funny Seven
- 15.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) string (b) smell (c) wing (d) fun
- 17.🔢 You want to remember the number 597620118. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 597 762 0118 (b) 976 201 18 (c) 597 260 118 (d) 597 620 118
- 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) done (c) ended (d) over
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Play Ants Ice ___ All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Seven (b) Toys (c) Every (d) Bunny
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AEASNAA (b) ANSAEAA (c) AANSAEA (d) AANSAAE
- 21.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: banana, whistle, flute? (a) Wins Bakes Frogs (b) Bakes Wins Frogs (c) Wins Frogs Bakes (d) Frogs Wins Bakes
- 22.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 19 and 47
- 23.📅 The digits 23112001 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 231/120/01 (b) 23/1120/01 (c) 2311/20/01 (d) 23/11/2001
- 24.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) twice (c) fast (d) again
- 25.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) night (b) sun (c) bell (d) rain
- 26.🔢 You want to remember the number 787779421157. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 7877 7941 157 (b) 7877 7942 1157 (c) 7877 7942 1517 (d) 7877 7942 21157
- 27.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 2 (A) stand for? (a) Indian (b) Atlantic (c) Southern (d) Pacific
- 28.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) saying it backwards (c) splitting into groups (d) writing it twice
- 29.📝 A list to learn, in order: ladder, violin, cat, urn, jalebi. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) LVCUJ (b) VCUJL (c) JUCVL (d) VLCUJ
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Funny Jolly My Ants (b) Funny My Ants Jolly (c) Ants My Funny Jolly (d) Jolly Funny My Ants
- 31.🔢 You want to remember the number 7587920815. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 758 792 08115 (b) 758 792 0815 (c) 758 920 815 (d) 785 792 0815
- 32.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 33.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Eat Cook Pigs ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Very (b) Bakes (c) Cats (d) Goats
- 34.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 35.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 2 (F) stand for? (a) March (b) April (c) January (d) February
- 36.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) bell (c) night (d) cake
- 37.🎵 Which word does “plane” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) sun (d) rain
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Pink Lazy Every (b) Lazy Every Pink All (c) Lazy Pink All Every (d) Every Lazy Pink All
- 39.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
- 40.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) it is a smaller number (c) it is printed bigger (d) three chunks, not ten
Answer key
- the rainbow colours
- SWG
- 08/10/2001
- 14/04/1993
- Wins
- initials match the list
- 6
- ECPC
- 953 244 6221
- RSLF
- sound patterns stick
- Aunty
- the letters make no word
- Seven Funny My
- first letters as a word
- fun
- 597 620 118
- done
- Seven
- AANSAEA
- Bakes Wins Frogs
- 19 and 47
- 23/11/2001
- more
- night
- 7877 7942 1157
- Atlantic
- splitting into groups
- LVCUJ
- Jolly Funny My Ants
- 758 792 0815
- 5
- Cats
- 4
- February
- sun
- rain
- Every Lazy Pink All
- a memory trick
- three chunks, not ten
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