Remember the Periodic Table

In a chemistry mid term paper, I could not recall the atomic numbers of certain major elements, but I was able to quickly draw a periodic table like this

So if i needed to know the atomic number, I simply had to count where that element falls in the periodic table. My table started with Lithium. Hydrogen was always a whole chapter to be studied and not as an s-block element, so I never bothered including it.

Like English has letters A, B, C, D, ...(consonants and vowels), Chemistry has elements H, He, Li, Be , B, C , N, O, F, ...(metals, metalloids and non-metals). So let us learn to remember ABCD of chemistry with the help of these are hindi/english phrases to remember elements in a periodic table;

• Lina K rubs cat's fur : (Li Na K Rb Cs Fr)
• Beta Mamaji ka sararti bada : (Be Mg Ca Sr Ba Ra)
• Bag it or Bal Gangadhar Indian Tilak : (B Al G In Tl)
• Kashiji suno prabhu :  (C Si Ge Sn Pb)
• Nana Papa has sweet barn Biscuit : (N P As Sb Bi)
• Fir kal Bar aai Aunty: (F Cl Br I At)
• Heena Neena Aur Karina ki Xerox Rani (He Ne Ar Kr Xe Rn)
• Shakti vardhak chromium manganese, pheko Niku ji (Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni  Cu Zn)

The table below is a modern periodic table most widely used. Columns in this table are also called Groups and rows as periods.