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: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a banana by the library, an umpire by the stairs, an onion by the blackboard, a van by the classroom door, a kite by the teacher’s desk. Where did you place the banana? (a) stairs (b) blackboard (c) teacher’s desk (d) library
- 2.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) a good night’s sleep (b) cramming the last night (c) linking to what you know (d) testing yourself
- 3.True or false: “explaining it aloud” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
- 4.True or false: “rake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 5.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: umbrella, net, coconut? (a) Nani Crazy Uncle (b) Uncle Nani Crazy (c) Nani Uncle Crazy (d) Crazy Nani Uncle
- 6.🧠 Fact or myth: “memory can’t improve”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 7.🔤 “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
- 8.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “feel a light touch” goes on the “nose” branch. (a) True (b) False
- 9.😴 You feel thirsty and sleepy while studying. A good first step? (a) eat lots of sweets (b) give up for the day (c) water and a short break (d) keep going for hours
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for igloo, watch, violin, coconut, jeep is “Ink ___ Vans Cats Jeeps”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Pink (b) All (c) Big (d) Wins
- 11.True or false: “one huge session” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
- 12.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to swim (b) tables learned long ago (c) your home address (d) a new word for a minute
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a formula card (b) see where it comes from (c) cram it the last night (d) draw a labelled picture
- 14.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “the day after Tuesday”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) Wednsday (b) Wednesday (c) Wedensday (d) Wensday
- 15.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) never testing yourself (b) one long session only (c) skipping revision (d) using it in a sum
- 16.True or false: “one task at a time” helps attention. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “a place to eat out”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) resturant (b) restrant (c) restaurent (d) restaurant
- 18.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 19.True or false: “sitting still all day” helps your memory. (a) False (b) True
- 20.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: playing outdoors? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 21.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) sleep helps you learn (b) meaning makes it stick (c) testing yourself helps (d) memory can’t improve
- 22.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: a healthy breakfast? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
- 23.🧠 Which step of memory is this: pay attention? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
- 24.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) an acronym (b) a first-letter sentence (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 25.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a long poem (c) first letters as a word (d) a drawing
- 26.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: self-tests every week? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
- 27.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 28.📝 A list to learn, in order: onion, igloo, glass, kettle, fan. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OIGKF (b) IGKFO (c) IOGKF (d) FKGIO
- 29.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: put pictures at stops? (a) step 2 (b) step 4 (c) step 3 (d) step 1
- 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting everything (c) teaching your sibling (d) blank-page recall
- 31.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) an acronym (b) a long story (c) a mind map (d) chunking
- 32.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which branch does “see colours” go on? (a) eyes (b) nose (c) skin (d) tongue
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blurry shape (b) a dull white wall (c) a frog wearing a crown (d) a list of words only
- 34.Which of these makes a good revision timetable? (a) self-tests every week (b) no spare days (c) only easy subjects (d) starts the night before
- 35.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: learn the topic or explain it simply? (a) learn the topic (b) explain it simply
- 36.📐 In the 9 times table from 9 × 1 to 9 × 10, the digits of each answer add up to… (a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 18 (d) 8
- 37.Which of these is a smart way to learn a formula? (a) know what each letter is (b) mix up the letters (c) copy it 50 times blindly (d) read it once
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) how to swim (b) your mother tongue (c) tables learned long ago (d) a number you just heard
- 39.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a long story (c) a maths sum (d) a list in a fixed order
- 40.🧠 Which step of memory is this: recall it? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2
Answer key
- library
- cramming the last night
- False
- True
- Uncle Nani Crazy
- a myth
- white
- False
- water and a short break
- Wins
- True
- a new word for a minute
- cram it the last night
- Wednesday
- using it in a sum
- True
- restaurant
- False
- False
- helps memory
- memory can’t improve
- helps memory
- step 1
- chunking
- first letters as a word
- a good timetable
- 6
- OIGKF
- step 3
- highlighting everything
- an acronym
- eyes
- a frog wearing a crown
- self-tests every week
- learn the topic
- 9
- know what each letter is
- a number you just heard
- a list in a fixed order
- step 3
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