Memory Techniques Worksheet: Part 3 Test
Memory tip (See it, link it, place it): Pictures: big, funny, moving, colourful, with a sense. Stories: each item does something to the next. Palace: walk the stops in order. Keyword: the CAPITAL word sounds like the new word, the picture shows the meaning. Mind maps: topic in the centre, each detail on its own branch.
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- 1.🔗 Why does a story keep the order of a list? (a) it uses numbers (b) stories are short (c) each link leads on (d) it rhymes
- 2.True or false: “copying a whole page” makes a poor mind map. (a) True (b) False
- 3.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “billi” is “a cat paying a BILL”. What does “billi” mean? (a) flower (b) sugar (c) mango (d) cat
- 4.True or false: “a bright red flying cow” makes a strong memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 5.Which of these makes a strong memory picture? (a) a far-off still tree (b) a pale, tiny dot (c) a laughing tiffin box (d) a plain grey box
- 6.Which of these makes a strong memory picture? (a) a plain grey box (b) a normal-sized cup (c) a mango that sings (d) the word in small print
- 7.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: replay the story or picture the first item? (a) replay the story (b) picture the first item
- 8.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: link it to the next item or picture the first item? (a) link it to the next item (b) picture the first item
- 9.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which branch does “have tiny pores” go on? (a) flowers (b) roots (c) stem (d) leaves
- 10.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a normal-sized cup? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 11.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: smelling a stinky sock? (a) sight (b) smell (c) sound (d) touch
- 12.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or fix stops in order? (a) walk the route to recall (b) fix stops in order
- 13.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a pencil that dances? (a) a strong picture (b) a weak picture
- 14.🗺️ Why use one key word on each branch? (a) quick to see and recall (b) it saves ink (c) it looks empty (d) no reason
- 15.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen. You place a kettle by the TV, an igloo by the dining table, a ladder by the sofa, an umbrella by the kitchen, a key by the shoe rack. What did you place by the shoe rack? (a) kettle (b) key (c) igloo (d) ladder
- 16.🔗 Your link story: a giant goat falls into a glass; the glass sings to a frog; the frog sits on a duck; the duck jumps over a cat. Which item comes right before the cat? (a) cat (b) frog (c) duck (d) goat
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) long sentences (b) tiny, cramped writing (c) a colour for each branch (d) ideas with no links
- 18.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or replay the story? (a) keep linking in order (b) replay the story
- 19.🔗 In the story method, items are joined by… (a) funny actions (b) plain lists (c) colours only (d) numbers
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a pale, tiny dot (b) a normal-sized cup (c) the word in small print (d) a kite as big as a house
- 21.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or link it to the next item? (a) keep linking in order (b) link it to the next item
- 22.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 1 (b) step 4 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 23.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a laughing tiffin box? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a pencil that dances (b) a blurry shape (c) a normal-sized cup (d) a list of words only
- 25.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the rhyme method (b) the method of loci (c) the pomodoro (d) chunking
- 26.True or false: “a laughing tiffin box” makes a strong memory picture. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) holds up the leaves (b) make seeds (c) attract bees (d) turn into fruit
- 28.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “ped” is “a tree on a note PAD”. What does “ped” mean? (a) water (b) sleep (c) foot (d) tree
- 29.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) attract bees (b) make seeds (c) turn into fruit (d) make food using sunlight
- 30.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: door → shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table. You place a ladder by the sofa, an anchor by the shoe rack, a duck by the dining table, an ice cream by the door, a sock by the TV. Walking the route, which item do you meet second? (a) duck (b) ice cream (c) anchor (d) ladder
- 31.🗺️ After drawing a mind map, how do you test yourself? (a) throw it away (b) frame it (c) redraw it from memory (d) colour it again
- 32.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: choose a place you know or put pictures at stops? (a) choose a place you know (b) put pictures at stops
- 33.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: bus stop → post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate. You place a wallet by the fruit cart, an apple by the banyan tree, a net by the post box, a shoe by the park gate, a tent by the bus stop. What did you place by the park gate? (a) net (b) tent (c) shoe (d) apple
- 34.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “smell flowers” goes on the “nose” branch. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide → bench. You place a drum by the park gate, an owl by the slide, a banana by the bench, a coconut by the fruit cart, a glass by the swing. Walking the route, which item do you meet second? (a) drum (b) owl (c) glass (d) coconut
- 36.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which detail goes on the “ears” branch? (a) taste sweet (b) read words (c) hear voices (d) taste salty
- 37.🗣️ Your keyword picture must also show… (a) a random colour (b) nothing else (c) the word’s meaning (d) its spelling backwards
- 38.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: find a sound-alike word or hear the new word? (a) find a sound-alike word (b) hear the new word
- 39.True or false: “a kite as big as a house” makes a weak memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 40.🗣️ In Hindi, “aam” means mango. Which keyword picture helps you remember it? (a) a tree on a note PAD (b) a CHANDelier on the moon (c) a BATTLE in the clouds (d) I AM eating a mango
Answer key
- each link leads on
- True
- cat
- True
- a laughing tiffin box
- a mango that sings
- picture the first item
- picture the first item
- leaves
- a weak picture
- smell
- fix stops in order
- a strong picture
- quick to see and recall
- key
- duck
- a colour for each branch
- keep linking in order
- funny actions
- a kite as big as a house
- link it to the next item
- step 2
- a strong picture
- a pencil that dances
- the method of loci
- True
- holds up the leaves
- tree
- make food using sunlight
- anchor
- redraw it from memory
- choose a place you know
- shoe
- True
- drum
- hear voices
- the word’s meaning
- hear the new word
- False
- I AM eating a mango
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