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.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) first letters as a word (b) a type of number (c) a drawing (d) a long poem
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VMEMJSUN (d) MVEMJSUN
- 3.🔤 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
- 4.👀 Why does attention matter for memory? (a) it only helps in sport (b) you keep what you notice (c) it doesn’t matter (d) it makes you tired
- 5.📐 Every answer in the 5 times table ends in… (a) 1 or 6 (b) any digit (c) 0 or 5 (d) 2 or 7
- 6.👀 You read a page but can’t say what it was about. What helps most? (a) turn the TV on (b) skip the chapter (c) read it again, focused (d) read it faster
- 7.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the rainbow colours (d) the months
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 4648565182. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 468 565 182 (b) 464 586 5182 (c) 464 855 65182 (d) 464 856 5182
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) skipping revision (b) one long session only (c) reading it once only (d) testing yourself
- 10.🔗 Which link is stronger for “pen” and “cup”? (a) the pen near a cup (b) both the same (c) neither (d) the pen stirring tea
- 11.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) a calm, happy mind (b) feeling very stressed (c) fruit and vegetables (d) a full night’s sleep
- 12.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: 4 hours the night before? (a) spaced practice (b) cramming
- 13.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for lemon, guava, coconut, needle, ice cream is “Lions Goats Cook Nani ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Frogs (b) Cats (c) Seven (d) Ice
- 14.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: hear the new word or link it to the meaning? (a) hear the new word (b) link it to the meaning
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: mirror, jug, sock? (a) Jolly Silly My (b) My Jolly Silly (c) Silly Jolly My (d) Jolly My Silly
- 16.🔢 You want to remember the number 8472811313. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 884 728 11313 (b) 847 811 313 (c) 847 281 1313 (d) 874 281 1313
- 17.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: link it to the next item? (a) step 3 (b) step 4 (c) step 1 (d) step 2
- 18.📆 What is the first step of a revision timetable? (a) copy a friend (b) write the exam dates (c) buy new pens (d) start the last day
- 19.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 20.📅 You learn the parts of a flower on day 1. You review 2 days later, then 3 days after that, then 5 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) twice (b) again (c) fast (d) more
- 22.🔗 Your link story: a giant ladder pulls a sock; the sock sings to an orange; the orange rolls into an umpire; the umpire tickles a jeep. Which item comes right before the jeep? (a) orange (b) sock (c) ladder (d) umpire
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) only easy subjects (b) old topics come back (c) starts weeks early (d) mixes subjects each day
- 24.True or false: “short planned breaks” breaks attention. (a) False (b) True
- 25.📆 Why plan some spare days? (a) to skip revision (b) to waste time (c) for doubts and surprises (d) to start late
- 26.🗂️ How do you move something into long-term memory? (a) review and use it often (b) read it once (c) hear it once (d) hope for the best
- 27.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) bell (c) king (d) night
- 28.📚 You must revise 4 chapters, 2 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 29.👀 Your phone buzzes while you study. What is best? (a) put it in another room (b) turn the sound up (c) reply at once (d) keep it in your hand
- 30.🔗 In the story method, items are joined by… (a) numbers (b) funny actions (c) plain lists (d) colours only
- 31.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a number you just heard? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 32.🔢 Use the pattern of the 5 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 5 times table? (a) 23 (b) 26 (c) 25 (d) 28
- 33.📅 The digits 05081958 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 050/819/58 (b) 0508/19/58 (c) 05/0819/58 (d) 05/08/1958
- 34.🔗 Your link story: a giant nest pulls a parrot; the parrot falls into a flute; the flute rolls into a net; the net sits on a jeep. Which item comes right before the parrot? (a) nest (b) parrot (c) jeep (d) net
- 35.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: learn the topic or close the book? (a) learn the topic (b) close the book
- 36.🗣️ Which keyword picture is stronger? (a) a funny, moving one (b) a plain, still one (c) just the word (d) no picture at all
- 37.🧠 You forgot a new friend’s name one minute after hearing it. What most likely went wrong? (a) you are bad at names (b) not paying attention (c) names can’t be learned (d) your brain is full
- 38.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) a full night’s sleep (b) playing outdoors (c) hours with no break (d) drinking enough water
- 39.📝 A list to learn, in order: jeep, spoon, glass, kite, lamp. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) SJGKL (b) SGKLJ (c) LKGSJ (d) JSGKL
- 40.🗓️ Why should the gaps grow longer? (a) to save paper (b) no reason (c) each review lasts longer (d) to forget faster
Answer key
- first letters as a word
- MVEMJSUN
- AANSAEA
- you keep what you notice
- 0 or 5
- read it again, focused
- the rainbow colours
- 464 856 5182
- testing yourself
- the pen stirring tea
- feeling very stressed
- cramming
- Ice
- hear the new word
- My Jolly Silly
- 847 281 1313
- step 2
- write the exam dates
- 9
- 11
- more
- umpire
- only easy subjects
- False
- for doubts and surprises
- review and use it often
- night
- 2
- put it in another room
- funny actions
- short-term memory
- 25
- 05/08/1958
- nest
- learn the topic
- a funny, moving one
- not paying attention
- hours with no break
- JSGKL
- each review lasts longer
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