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.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ENSW (c) ESWN (d) NESW
- 2.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or replay the story? (a) keep linking in order (b) replay the story
- 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) AANSAEA (b) AEASNAA (c) AANSAAE (d) ANSAEAA
- 4.True or false: “learning it all at once” is spaced practice. (a) False (b) True
- 5.True or false: “a full night’s sleep” helps your memory. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: put pictures at stops? (a) step 3 (b) step 4 (c) step 1 (d) step 2
- 7.👀 You keep thinking about a match while you study. What helps? (a) give up studying (b) note it, then go back (c) think about it more (d) watch the match
- 8.🔗 Your link story: a giant umbrella jumps over a glass; the glass chases a sock; the sock sits on an inkpot; the inkpot crashes into a tomato. Which item is number 1 in your list? (a) umbrella (b) inkpot (c) glass (d) sock
- 9.Which of these is a smart way to learn a formula? (a) read it once (b) mix up the letters (c) copy it 50 times blindly (d) a formula card
- 10.📅 You learn five state capitals on day 4. You review 1 day later, then 3 days after that, then 7 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 11.📉 When do we forget the most of something new? (a) only in exams (b) in the first day or two (c) after ten years (d) never
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in the same order (c) in ABC order (d) in any order
- 13.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) green, flat and thin (b) have tiny pores (c) make food using sunlight (d) carries food to parts
- 14.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “not boring”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) intresting (b) intristing (c) interesting (d) interisting
- 15.True or false: “starts the night before” makes a good revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pictures stick better (b) practice improves memory (c) sleep helps you learn (d) good memory is just luck
- 17.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “taste salty” goes on the “tongue” branch. (a) True (b) False
- 18.True or false: “review on days 1, 3, 7” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: picture the first item or replay the story? (a) picture the first item (b) replay the story
- 20.True or false: “no breaks at all” makes a good revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 21.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: revising before bed? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 22.🔤 Why do acronyms help memory? (a) they are longer (b) they always rhyme (c) one word holds a list (d) they need no learning
- 23.🗺️ After drawing a mind map, how do you test yourself? (a) colour it again (b) frame it (c) redraw it from memory (d) throw it away
- 24.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: say it aloud? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) chatting in class (b) scrolling while reading (c) one task at a time (d) a desk full of toys
- 26.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: your home address? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 27.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: never use it in sums? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
- 28.👀 Does this help attention or break it: one task at a time? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 29.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 31.📐 Every answer in the 5 times table ends in… (a) 2 or 7 (b) 1 or 6 (c) any digit (d) 0 or 5
- 32.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 33.Which of these helps attention? (a) a desk full of toys (b) games open on screen (c) asking a question (d) three tasks at once
- 34.🧠 Fact or myth: “sleep helps you learn”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a silly, funny one (c) one with no picture (d) a dull, plain one
- 36.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 6, the tens digit is 6 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 6. What is 9 × 6?
- 37.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: gaps that grow longer? (a) spaced practice (b) cramming
- 38.True or false: “looking at your phone” helps you keep a new name. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: store it or get it back later? (a) store it (b) get it back later
- 40.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
Answer key
- NESW
- keep linking in order
- AANSAEA
- False
- True
- step 3
- note it, then go back
- umbrella
- a formula card
- 15
- in the first day or two
- in the same order
- carries food to parts
- interesting
- False
- good memory is just luck
- True
- False
- picture the first item
- False
- helps memory
- one word holds a list
- redraw it from memory
- a smart way
- one task at a time
- long-term memory
- a weak way
- helps attention
- False
- 5
- 0 or 5
- True
- asking a question
- a fact
- a silly, funny one
- 54
- spaced practice
- False
- store it
- 4
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