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.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Pink Cats Eight (b) Cats Pink Crazy Eight (c) Eight Cats Pink Crazy (d) Cats Eight Pink Crazy
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for January, February, March, April is “Jolly Funny Mum ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ink (b) Aunty (c) Kind (d) Young
- 4.📅 The digits 07011958 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 070/119/58 (b) 07/0119/58 (c) 0701/19/58 (d) 07/01/1958
- 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FJMA (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
- 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IVBGYOR (c) IBGYORV (d) VIBGYOR
- 7.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) only pictures (c) only numbers (d) numbers and letter lists
- 8.True or false: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: wallet, tent, monkey? (a) Tea Mum Wins (b) Tea Wins Mum (c) Wins Tea Mum (d) Mum Tea Wins
- 10.🎵 Which word does “cane” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) sun (d) rain
- 11.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 12.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Silly Wins Neat (b) Neat Eat Silly Wins (c) Eat Neat Silly Wins (d) Wins Silly Eat Neat
- 13.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 14.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) there is no list (c) the letters make no word (d) you like spelling
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 16.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Lions Frogs Red (b) Frogs Lions Silly Red (c) Red Silly Lions Frogs (d) Silly Red Lions Frogs
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Silly Wet Neat (b) Eat Neat Silly Wet (c) Wet Silly Eat Neat (d) Neat Eat Silly Wet
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 3160712603. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 316 071 2063 (b) 316 071 2603 (c) 316 007 12603 (d) 160 712 603
- 19.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 20.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for sock, tent, duck, bucket is “Sing ___ Dogs Bunny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tea (b) Funny (c) Lions (d) Kites
- 21.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the months (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
- 22.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) train (b) white (c) spring (d) bite
- 23.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for apple, urn, drum, lemon, wallet is “___ Up Dad Lazy Wins”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Frogs (b) Uncle (c) Aunty (d) Goats
- 24.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 2 (C) stand for? (a) condensation (b) evaporation (c) precipitation (d) collection
- 25.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is chunking. (a) False (b) True
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, ladder, tiger? (a) Cook Love Tea (b) Tea Love Cook (c) Love Tea Cook (d) Love Cook Tea
- 27.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) never say it (b) change it each day (c) read it once silently (d) say it aloud often
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shell (b) fun (c) ton (d) done
- 29.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 5 (J) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Venus (c) Uranus (d) Jupiter
- 30.🔢 You want to remember the number 694817518. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 698 175 18 (b) 694 871 518 (c) 669 481 7518 (d) 694 817 518
- 31.🎵 Which word does “white” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) king (c) sun (d) night
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Silly Love Fly Runs (b) Runs Silly Love Fly (c) Fly Love Silly Runs (d) Silly Runs Love Fly
- 33.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) CEPC (b) ECCP (c) ECPC (d) CPCE
- 34.📅 The digits 26051977 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 26/0519/77 (b) 2605/19/77 (c) 260/519/77 (d) 26/05/1977
- 35.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 36.True or false: “Raju Sees Little Frogs” for root, stem, leaf, flower — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 37.📅 The digits 01051997 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 010/519/97 (b) 01/0519/97 (c) 01/05/1997 (d) 0105/19/97
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a very long one (d) a silly, funny one
- 39.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) date chunks (d) a times-table rhyme
- 40.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia is “___ All Nani Seven All Eat Ants”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Funny (b) All (c) Very (d) Lions
Answer key
- 5
- Eight Cats Pink Crazy
- Aunty
- 07/01/1958
- JFMA
- VIBGYOR
- numbers and letter lists
- False
- Wins Tea Mum
- rain
- False
- Neat Eat Silly Wins
- splitting into groups
- the letters make no word
- 9
- Red Silly Lions Frogs
- Neat Eat Silly Wet
- 316 071 2603
- 4
- Tea
- the rainbow colours
- train
- Aunty
- condensation
- True
- Cook Love Tea
- say it aloud often
- shell
- Jupiter
- 694 817 518
- night
- Runs Silly Love Fly
- ECPC
- 26/05/1977
- 3
- True
- 01/05/1997
- a silly, funny one
- a first-letter sentence
- All
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