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.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library → playground. You place a guava by the playground, an anchor by the library, a key by the teacher’s desk, a drum by the blackboard, a lemon by the classroom door. What did you place by the classroom door? (a) anchor (b) guava (c) lemon (d) key
- 2.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) chunking (b) nothing at all (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym word
- 3.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: self-tests every week? (a) a good timetable (b) a poor timetable
- 4.👀 The teacher is explaining a new sum. Where should your eyes be? (a) on the teacher and board (b) out of the window (c) on your friend (d) on your phone
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) plane (b) key (c) cane (d) chain
- 6.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) your best friend’s name (b) the last line you read (c) how to swim (d) how to ride a bicycle
- 7.📅 You learn a Hindi poem on day 5. You review 1 day later, then 3 days after that, then 7 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 8.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it is printed bigger (c) it has fewer digits (d) three chunks, not ten
- 9.📅 The digits 06032009 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0603/20/09 (b) 06/0320/09 (c) 060/320/09 (d) 06/03/2009
- 10.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “very pretty”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) beautifull (b) butiful (c) beautiful (d) beatiful
- 11.🗓️ Your exam is in 17 days. You have 5 chapters and need 3 days to learn each one. The other days are for revision. How many revision days do you get?
- 12.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: 4 hours the night before? (a) cramming (b) spaced practice
- 13.🔢 You want to remember the number 693215071217. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 6932 1071 217 (b) 6392 1507 1217 (c) 6932 1507 1217 (d) 6993 2150 71217
- 14.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a carry while adding? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 16.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) ANSAEAA (c) AEASNAA (d) AANSAAE
- 17.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) twice (b) more (c) fast (d) again
- 18.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or choose a place you know? (a) put pictures at stops (b) choose a place you know
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) practice improves memory (b) pictures stick better (c) sleep helps you learn (d) memory can’t improve
- 20.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: explain it simply or check what you missed? (a) explain it simply (b) check what you missed
- 21.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or picture the first item? (a) keep linking in order (b) picture the first item
- 22.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) white (b) saffron (c) green
- 23.⏰ You revise each of 4 chapters 3 times, for 15 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
- 24.True or false: “say it aloud” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 25.👋 You meet a new classmate called Kiran. The name means “ray of light”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) holding a dove of peace (b) sitting on a cloud (c) in a bright ray of light (d) in soft moonlight
- 26.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: a full night’s sleep? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
- 27.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place a kite by the banyan tree, a sock by the swing, a banana by the park gate, a lamp by the fruit cart, an apple by the post box. What did you place by the banyan tree? (a) lamp (b) kite (c) sock (d) banana
- 28.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for goat, jug, vase, tomato is “Green ___ Very Tiny”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Toys (b) Cook (c) Yaks (d) Jeeps
- 29.🔢 You want to remember the number 901401269. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 910 401 269 (b) 901 401 269 (c) 901 401 2669 (d) 901 402 69
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) not asking again (b) using it in a sentence (c) saying the name back (d) asking how to spell it
- 31.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 4
- 32.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 8, the tens digit is 8 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 8. What is 9 × 8?
- 33.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “see shapes” goes on the “eyes” branch. (a) False (b) True
- 34.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: small doodles? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
- 35.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) rain (d) sun
- 36.🗺️ After drawing a mind map, how do you test yourself? (a) redraw it from memory (b) colour it again (c) throw it away (d) frame it
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using it in a sum (b) explaining to a friend (c) reviewing the next day (d) cramming the last night
- 38.Which of these helps attention? (a) daydreaming in class (b) a clear, tidy desk (c) scrolling while reading (d) studying half-asleep
- 39.🔢 Use the pattern of the 9 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 9 times table? (a) 64 (b) 65 (c) 63 (d) 62
- 40.📐 In the 11 times table up to 11 × 9, each answer… (a) ends in 5 (b) repeats the digit (c) is always odd (d) ends in 0
Answer key
- lemon
- a first-letter sentence
- a good timetable
- on the teacher and board
- key
- the last line you read
- 16
- three chunks, not ten
- 06/03/2009
- beautiful
- 2
- cramming
- 6932 1507 1217
- short-term memory
- 5
- AANSAEA
- more
- choose a place you know
- memory can’t improve
- explain it simply
- picture the first item
- white
- 180
- True
- in a bright ray of light
- helps memory
- kite
- Jeeps
- 901 401 269
- not asking again
- step 1
- 72
- True
- a good mind map
- tree
- redraw it from memory
- cramming the last night
- a clear, tidy desk
- 63
- repeats the digit
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