Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 700 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done” — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) ring (b) key (c) train (d) chain
4. 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Pigs All Eight (b) Lions Eight Pigs All (c) Eight Lions Pigs All (d) All Pigs Lions Eight
5. 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vans Eight My Jeeps Silly ___ Nine”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dance (b) Frogs (c) Up (d) Goats
6. 6.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
7. 7.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) well (b) rock (c) spell (d) sell
8. 8.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
9. 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: lemon, umpire, banana? (a) Love Up Big (b) Up Big Love (c) Big Up Love (d) Up Love Big
10. 10.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔢 You want to remember the number 513493674086. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5143 9367 4086 (b) 5134 9367 40886 (c) 5139 3674 086 (d) 5134 9367 4086
12. 12.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) WGS (c) GWS (d) SWG
13. 13.📅 The digits 06032015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 06/03/2015 (b) 0603/20/15 (c) 060/320/15 (d) 06/0320/15
14. 14.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 19 and 47 (c) 1 9 4 7 (d) 1 and 947
16. 16.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a picture (c) a maths sum (d) a list in a fixed order
17. 17.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) long (b) fast (c) cold (d) free
18. 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 626608699856. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6266 0896 9856 (b) 6626 6086 99856 (c) 6266 0869 9856 (d) 6266 8699 856
19. 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 9995819876. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 999 588 19876 (b) 999 589 876 (c) 999 581 8976 (d) 999 581 9876
20. 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, tiger, banana? (a) Bakes Toys Cook (b) Toys Bakes Cook (c) Cook Toys Bakes (d) Toys Cook Bakes
21. 21.📝 A list to learn, in order: monkey, umpire, needle, bucket. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BNUM (b) UNBM (c) MUNB (d) UMNB
22. 22.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vans Inside Big Goats ___ Owls Red”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Young (b) Cook (c) Lazy (d) Bakes
23. 23.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 7 (R) stand for? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
24. 24.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
26. 26.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAAE (b) AANSAEA (c) AEASNAA (d) ANSAEAA
28. 28.True or false: “fun” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) reading very fast (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
30. 30.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) a rhyme
31. 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “___ Seven Love Fly”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Play (b) Runs (c) Wins (d) Yaks
32. 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 5395777374. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 539 757 7374 (b) 539 577 77374 (c) 539 577 7374 (d) 395 777 374
33. 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bite (b) block (c) ton (d) string
34. 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Love Funny Runs (b) Funny Love Sing Runs (c) Runs Sing Love Funny (d) Sing Runs Love Funny
35. 35.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the list is short (b) you like spelling (c) there is no list (d) the letters make no word
36. 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Runs Sing Love Fly (b) Sing Love Fly Runs (c) Fly Love Sing Runs (d) Sing Runs Love Fly
37. 37.📅 The digits 05022012 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 05/0220/12 (b) 05/02/2012 (c) 050/220/12 (d) 0502/20/12
38. 38.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) one word holds a list (c) they always rhyme (d) they need no learning
39. 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Love Eat Pink Aunty (b) Aunty Pink Love Eat (c) Eat Love Pink Aunty (d) Love Pink Aunty Eat
40. 40.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it is printed bigger (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it has fewer digits

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