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Memory Techniques Worksheet: Final Test

Memory techniques lesson 24: Final test: memory techniques · Set 103 · 40 questions
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Memory tip (Notice, link, review): Find the topic: memory basics, a mnemonic, a picture or place method, or a study habit. Use that lesson’s tip and read every option before you choose. For sums: add gaps to the learning day, wrong answers = all − right, revision days = days − learning days.

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  1. 1.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) fast (c) again (d) twice
  2. 2.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) topic in the centre (b) one key word per branch (c) tiny, cramped writing (d) small doodles
  3. 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mirror, ant, violin, candle, rose is “Mice ___ Vines Cook Rani”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) Silly (c) Dad (d) Mum
  4. 4.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) an acronym
  5. 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Every Play Aunty (b) Aunty Play Lions Every (c) Every Lions Play Aunty (d) Lions Play Aunty Every
  6. 6.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a laughing tiffin box? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
  7. 7.🗣️ 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
  8. 8.⏰ You revise each of 5 chapters 2 times, for 20 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
  9. 9.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a picture (d) a long story
  10. 10.🏰 You have 10 items but your route has only 5 stops. What helps? (a) skip 5 items (b) use no route (c) put all at one stop (d) add more stops
  11. 11.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide. You place a jalebi by the swing, an apple by the park gate, a ladder by the banyan tree, a guava by the fruit cart, a goat by the slide. What did you place by the park gate? (a) apple (b) ladder (c) jalebi (d) guava
  12. 12.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: a good night’s sleep? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
  13. 13.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shake (b) bake (c) snake (d) sing
  14. 14.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: self-tests every week? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
  15. 15.Which of these breaks attention? (a) eyes on the speaker (b) a quiet place to study (c) asking a question (d) studying half-asleep
  16. 16.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the method of loci (b) the pomodoro (c) chunking (d) the rhyme method
  17. 17.True or false: “highlighting everything” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: “wake” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 28 formulas and get 6 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 2 of them right. How many are still wrong?
  20. 20.True or false: “rushing the greeting” helps you keep a new name. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these makes a good revision timetable? (a) late nights every day (b) only easy subjects (c) starts the night before (d) sleep time kept
  22. 22.Which of these makes a strong memory picture? (a) a sock that smells awful (b) a pale, tiny dot (c) a plain grey box (d) a blurry shape
  23. 23.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) VMEMJSUN
  24. 24.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  25. 25.Which of these is a smart way to learn a formula? (a) use it in a few sums (b) cram it the last night (c) copy it 50 times blindly (d) never use it in sums
  26. 26.Which of these helps attention? (a) a desk full of toys (b) eyes on the speaker (c) games open on screen (d) TV on while studying
  27. 27.🗂️ You hear a new number and don’t repeat it. How long does it usually stay in short-term memory? (a) forever (b) for years (c) until next month (d) only a short while
  28. 28.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “neend” is “I NEED sleep”. What does “neend” mean? (a) mango (b) book (c) sleep (d) rice
  29. 29.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a long book (c) a memory trick (d) a kind of pen
  30. 30.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 3 (b) step 4 (c) step 1 (d) step 2
  31. 31.🔗 Your link story: a giant radio jumps over a sock; the sock falls into a rope; the rope rolls into a pencil; the pencil sings to a cat. Which item comes right after the radio? (a) sock (b) radio (c) rope (d) pencil
  32. 32.📝 A list to learn, in order: bucket, key, ant, ice cream, parrot. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KAIPB (b) KBAIP (c) BKAIP (d) PIAKB
  33. 33.📉 What does the forgetting curve show? (a) memory is fixed (b) we never forget (c) forgetting starts late (d) we forget fast at first
  34. 34.🗣️ In Hindi, “mez” means table. Which keyword picture helps you remember it? (a) a KNOCK on the nose (b) a MAZE on a table (c) a fish lighting a MATCH (d) a PIE under your foot
  35. 35.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 2 (V) stand for? (a) Earth (b) Venus (c) Uranus (d) Neptune
  36. 36.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: check what you missed or explain it simply? (a) check what you missed (b) explain it simply
  37. 37.📅 The digits 27031983 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 27/0319/83 (b) 270/319/83 (c) 2703/19/83 (d) 27/03/1983
  38. 38.⏰ You revise each of 3 chapters 3 times, for 20 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
  39. 39.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) a type of number (d) first letters as a word
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) screens till midnight (b) feeling very stressed (c) a calm, happy mind (d) an all-night cram

Answer key

  1. more
  2. tiny, cramped writing
  3. Aunty
  4. an acronym
  5. Every Lions Play Aunty
  6. a strong picture
  7. hear the new word
  8. 200
  9. a list in a fixed order
  10. add more stops
  11. apple
  12. helps you keep it
  13. sing
  14. a good timetable
  15. studying half-asleep
  16. the method of loci
  17. False
  18. False
  19. 20
  20. False
  21. sleep time kept
  22. a sock that smells awful
  23. MVEMJSUN
  24. 3
  25. use it in a few sums
  26. eyes on the speaker
  27. only a short while
  28. sleep
  29. a memory trick
  30. step 1
  31. sock
  32. BKAIP
  33. we forget fast at first
  34. a MAZE on a table
  35. Venus
  36. explain it simply
  37. 27/03/1983
  38. 180
  39. first letters as a word
  40. a calm, happy mind

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