Memory Techniques Worksheet: Final Test
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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for kite, tomato, whistle, pencil, lamp is “___ Tiny Wet Pigs Love”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bakes (b) Kites (c) Dogs (d) Up
- 2.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) one key word per branch (b) a colour for each branch (c) lines that link ideas (d) topic in a corner
- 3.Which of these helps your memory? (a) hours with no break (b) skipping breakfast (c) revising before bed (d) sitting still all day
- 4.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) cramming the last night (b) skipping revision (c) reading it once only (d) a good night’s sleep
- 5.📐 Area of a rectangle = length × breadth. What helps you keep it? (a) read it once (b) picture a tiled floor (c) skip it (d) copy it blindly
- 6.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: bus stop → post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate. You place an inkpot by the banyan tree, an ant by the bus stop, an onion by the park gate, a ladder by the fruit cart, a tent by the post box. Where did you place the ant? (a) banyan tree (b) bus stop (c) park gate (d) post box
- 7.🎨 Which word is the hardest to picture as it is? (a) rocket (b) honesty (c) elephant (d) banana
- 8.True or false: “a sock that smells awful” makes a weak memory picture. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: fix stops in order or walk the route to recall? (a) fix stops in order (b) walk the route to recall
- 10.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a sock by the stairs, a tomato by the blackboard, a tent by the library, a glass by the teacher’s desk, a guava by the classroom door. Walking the route, which item do you meet fifth? (a) tomato (b) tent (c) sock (d) guava
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AEASNAA (c) AANSAAE (d) AANSAEA
- 12.True or false: “copying notes neatly” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🗣️ In Hindi, “billi” means cat. Which keyword picture helps you remember it? (a) a fish lighting a MATCH (b) a CHUBBY key (c) a cat paying a BILL (d) a flower in a POOL
- 14.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 2. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 3, 7, 14 (b) all on day 14 (c) days 5, 8, 11 (d) days 9, 13, 14
- 15.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: a colour for each branch? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a goal for each session (b) chatting in class (c) eyes on the speaker (d) phone in another room
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Eight Pigs All (b) All Pigs Lazy Eight (c) Eight Lazy Pigs All (d) Lazy Pigs All Eight
- 18.🗂️ You hear a new number and don’t repeat it. How long does it usually stay in short-term memory? (a) until next month (b) only a short while (c) forever (d) for years
- 19.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a sock that smells awful? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 20.🗣️ When should you review a new keyword picture? (a) only in the exam (b) after a year (c) later today and tomorrow (d) never again
- 21.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it has fewer digits (c) it is printed bigger (d) three chunks, not ten
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) draw a labelled picture (b) know what each letter is (c) read it once (d) see where it comes from
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at your phone (b) saying the name back (c) asking how to spell it (d) noticing the face
- 24.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 3 (b) step 4 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 25.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) write (b) sock (c) shock (d) lock
- 26.📚 You must revise 12 chapters, 3 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 27.True or false: “quizzing with cards” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
- 28.True or false: “old topics each Sunday” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🗂️ How many things can short-term memory hold at once? (a) a whole book (b) no limit (c) hundreds (d) only a few
- 30.True or false: “a kite as big as a house” makes a strong memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 31.👋 You meet a new classmate called Kiran. The name means “ray of light”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) in a bright ray of light (b) holding a pink lotus (c) riding a big sea wave (d) wearing a shiny star
- 32.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: hear the new word? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 33.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 4 (M) stand for? (a) Uranus (b) Saturn (c) Mars (d) Earth
- 34.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 35.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: gaps that grow longer? (a) spaced practice (b) cramming
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wet Sing Goats (b) Goats Wet Sing (c) Wet Goats Sing (d) Sing Wet Goats
- 37.Which of these is a weak way to learn a formula? (a) read it once (b) draw a labelled picture (c) use it in a few sums (d) test yourself weekly
- 38.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a list of words only? (a) a strong picture (b) a weak picture
- 39.🎨 Which makes a memory picture stronger? (a) make it big and funny (b) make it small and plain (c) keep it still (d) make it grey
- 40.🎨 To remember the word “umbrella”, which picture is best? (a) a small grey dot (b) a plain box (c) the word “umbrella” (d) a giant rainbow umbrella
Answer key
- Kites
- topic in a corner
- revising before bed
- a good night’s sleep
- picture a tiled floor
- bus stop
- honesty
- False
- fix stops in order
- tent
- AANSAEA
- False
- a cat paying a BILL
- days 3, 7, 14
- a good mind map
- chatting in class
- Eight Lazy Pigs All
- only a short while
- a strong picture
- later today and tomorrow
- three chunks, not ten
- read it once
- looking at your phone
- step 2
- write
- 4
- True
- False
- only a few
- True
- in a bright ray of light
- step 1
- Mars
- 5
- spaced practice
- Sing Wet Goats
- read it once
- a weak picture
- make it big and funny
- a giant rainbow umbrella
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