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.🎨 Adding sound, smell or movement to a picture makes it… (a) useless (b) easier to keep (c) too slow (d) harder to keep
- 2.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen → bed. You place a coconut by the TV, a frog by the kitchen, a cat by the dining table, an orange by the bed, a van by the sofa. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) van (b) cat (c) frog (d) coconut
- 3.True or false: “testing yourself helps” is a fact about memory. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🗣️ The keyword method is best for… (a) drawing maps (b) adding sums (c) new words in a language (d) long numbers
- 5.🔢 You want to remember the number 800487140707. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 8004 8771 40707 (b) 8040 8714 0707 (c) 8004 8714 0707 (d) 8004 8714 707
- 6.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a new word for a minute? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) long sentences (b) topic in the centre (c) lines that link ideas (d) small doodles
- 8.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) splitting into groups (d) saying it backwards
- 9.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: review the picture or hear the new word? (a) review the picture (b) hear the new word
- 10.🏰 Why must the stops always be in the same order? (a) to make it longer (b) to keep the order (c) it looks nice (d) no reason
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) how to swim (b) your home address (c) your birthday (d) a number you just heard
- 12.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “hear music” goes on the “ears” branch. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) world (c) one (d) planet
- 14.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: link it to the meaning? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking messages (b) short planned breaks (c) a clear, tidy desk (d) phone in another room
- 16.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) a type of number
- 17.True or false: “a normal-sized cup” makes a weak memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) teaching your sibling (c) closed-book writing (d) quizzing with cards
- 19.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: recall it or pay attention? (a) recall it (b) pay attention
- 20.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: never use it in sums? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
- 21.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: never testing yourself? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 22.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a memory trick (b) a kind of pen (c) a long book (d) a type of exam
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) closed-book writing (b) only listening again (c) blank-page recall (d) explaining it aloud
- 24.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “sun”. (a) False (b) True
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, jeep, shoe, doll, watch is “Mice Jeeps ___ Dad Wins”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Only (b) Sing (c) Tea (d) Dogs
- 26.Which of these is spaced practice? (a) learning it all at once (b) review on days 1, 3, 7 (c) no review until the test (d) all reviews on one day
- 27.Which of these makes you lose a new name? (a) writing it down later (b) linking it to a picture (c) asking how to spell it (d) never using the name
- 28.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which branch does “hold the plant firm” go on? (a) stem (b) flowers (c) leaves (d) roots
- 29.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 19 and 47 (b) 194 and 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 1 9 4 7
- 30.True or false: “only listening again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “not boring”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) interisting (b) intresting (c) interesting (d) intristing
- 32.🧠 Which step of memory is this: get it back later? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 3
- 33.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: seeing a red kite fly? (a) touch (b) smell (c) sight (d) sound
- 34.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) learning without meaning (b) never testing yourself (c) reviewing the next day (d) reading it once only
- 35.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: studying when sleepy? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 36.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 5 (J) stand for? (a) Jupiter (b) Mercury (c) Neptune (d) Saturn
- 37.👋 Which way of learning a spelling works best? (a) spell it aloud backwards (b) look-cover-write-check (c) read it once (d) copy it 100 times
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Crazy Eat Pigs Cats (b) Cats Pigs Crazy Eat (c) Crazy Pigs Cats Eat (d) Eat Crazy Pigs Cats
- 39.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a mango that sings? (a) a strong picture (b) a weak picture
- 40.True or false: “meaning makes it stick” is a myth about memory. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- easier to keep
- van
- True
- new words in a language
- 8004 8714 0707
- short-term memory
- long sentences
- splitting into groups
- hear the new word
- to keep the order
- a number you just heard
- True
- one
- step 3
- checking messages
- first letters as a word
- True
- re-reading the chapter
- pay attention
- a weak way
- lets it fade
- a memory trick
- only listening again
- False
- Sing
- review on days 1, 3, 7
- never using the name
- roots
- 19 and 47
- True
- interesting
- step 3
- sight
- reviewing the next day
- lets it fade
- Jupiter
- look-cover-write-check
- Eat Crazy Pigs Cats
- a strong picture
- False
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