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Mnemonics Worksheet: Part 2 Test

Memory techniques lesson 12: Part 2 test: mnemonics · Set 74 · 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 drum, monkey, spoon, rope is “Dogs Mice Seven ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pigs (b) Kind (c) Big (d) Red
  2. 2.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it is printed bigger (d) it is a smaller number
  3. 3.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
  4. 4.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) All Play Lions Eight (b) Lions Eight Play All (c) Lions Play All Eight (d) Eight Lions Play All
  5. 5.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) clear (c) right (d) known
  6. 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Eight Cats Play ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Goats (b) Dogs (c) Love (d) Crazy
  7. 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for north, east, south, west is “Nani Eat ___ Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Silly (b) Mum (c) Cook (d) Ice
  8. 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 128793881. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 128 793 881 (b) 218 793 881 (c) 128 793 81 (d) 128 799 3881
  9. 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) LEPA (b) APLE (c) LPAE (d) ELPA
  10. 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) one with no picture (c) a dull, plain one (d) a very long one
  11. 11.📝 A list to learn, in order: anchor, frog, pencil, kettle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FPKA (b) AFPK (c) KPFA (d) FAPK
  12. 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 172320288361. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1723 2028 8361 (b) 1723 2088 361 (c) 1723 0228 8361 (d) 1723 2028 83611
  13. 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: pillow, owl, candle, guava, rope. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) POCGR (b) OPCGR (c) RGCOP (d) OCGRP
  14. 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) SLFR (b) FLSR (c) RSLF (d) SRLF
  15. 15.📅 The digits 15021966 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1502/19/66 (b) 15/02/1966 (c) 15/0219/66 (d) 150/219/66
  16. 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tea (b) free (c) three (d) shell
  17. 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in any order (c) in ABC order (d) in the same order
  18. 18.📅 The digits 02052022 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 020/520/22 (b) 02/0520/22 (c) 0205/20/22 (d) 02/05/2022
  19. 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 107413956. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 107 419 356 (b) 107 741 3956 (c) 107 413 95 (d) 107 413 956
  20. 20.📝 A list to learn, in order: nest, urn, jalebi, drum, goat. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UJDGN (b) UNJDG (c) NUJDG (d) GDJUN
  21. 21.🎵 Which word does “spell” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) cake (d) bell
  22. 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rose, spoon, owl? (a) Sing Runs Only (b) Runs Sing Only (c) Only Sing Runs (d) Sing Only Runs
  23. 23.📝 A list to learn, in order: apple, orange, radio, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) AORL (b) LROA (c) ORLA (d) OARL
  24. 24.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Eat ___ Pigs Cats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) My (b) Grab (c) Cats (d) Eat
  25. 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violin, tent, nest, mirror is “___ Tea Neat Mum”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Funny (b) Eat (c) Vines (d) Kind
  26. 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) done (b) lake (c) knee (d) white
  27. 27.🔢 You want to remember the number 949162679. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 949 162 697 (b) 949 162 679 (c) 949 162 6799 (d) 949 162 79
  28. 28.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only pictures (d) only numbers
  29. 29.True or false: “main” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red is “Vines Ink Bakes Green Young ___ Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Rani (c) Yum (d) Wins
  31. 31.📝 A list to learn, in order: anchor, jalebi, pencil, mango. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JAPM (b) JPMA (c) AJPM (d) MPJA
  32. 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 655456381. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 654 556 381 (b) 655 456 381 (c) 655 456 3381 (d) 655 456 38
  33. 33.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) an acronym (d) chunking
  34. 34.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 5 (Y) stand for? (a) indigo (b) blue (c) yellow (d) violet
  36. 36.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  37. 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 385172507506. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 3851 7250 7506 (b) 3855 1725 07506 (c) 3851 7257 0506 (d) 3851 7207 506
  38. 38.🔢 You want to remember the number 763455597. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 736 455 597 (b) 763 455 97 (c) 763 455 597 (d) 763 455 5597
  39. 39.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  40. 40.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Play Ants Ice Seven ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Very (b) Green (c) Dogs (d) All

Answer key

  1. Red
  2. three chunks, not ten
  3. the rainbow colours
  4. Eight Lions Play All
  5. true
  6. Crazy
  7. Silly
  8. 128 793 881
  9. ELPA
  10. a silly, funny one
  11. AFPK
  12. 1723 2028 8361
  13. POCGR
  14. RSLF
  15. 15/02/1966
  16. shell
  17. in the same order
  18. 02/05/2022
  19. 107 413 956
  20. NUJDG
  21. bell
  22. Runs Sing Only
  23. AORL
  24. Cats
  25. Vines
  26. white
  27. 949 162 679
  28. numbers and letter lists
  29. True
  30. Only
  31. AJPM
  32. 655 456 381
  33. a first-letter sentence
  34. True
  35. yellow
  36. 8
  37. 3851 7250 7506
  38. 763 455 597
  39. 6
  40. All

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