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.✏️ 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.🔢 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.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the oceans (d) the rainbow colours
- 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.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) clear (c) right (d) known
- 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.✏️ 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.🔢 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.🔤 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.✏️ 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.📝 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.🔢 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.📝 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.🔤 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.📅 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.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tea (b) free (c) three (d) shell
- 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.📅 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.🔢 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.📝 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.🎵 Which word does “spell” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) cake (d) bell
- 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.📝 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.✏️ 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.✏️ 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.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) done (b) lake (c) knee (d) white
- 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.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only pictures (d) only numbers
- 29.True or false: “main” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 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.📝 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.🔢 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.🧰 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.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 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.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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.🔢 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.🔢 Instead of holding 10 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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
- Red
- three chunks, not ten
- the rainbow colours
- Eight Lions Play All
- true
- Crazy
- Silly
- 128 793 881
- ELPA
- a silly, funny one
- AFPK
- 1723 2028 8361
- POCGR
- RSLF
- 15/02/1966
- shell
- in the same order
- 02/05/2022
- 107 413 956
- NUJDG
- bell
- Runs Sing Only
- AORL
- Cats
- Vines
- white
- 949 162 679
- numbers and letter lists
- True
- Only
- AJPM
- 655 456 381
- a first-letter sentence
- True
- yellow
- 8
- 3851 7250 7506
- 763 455 597
- 6
- All
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