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Memory Techniques Worksheet: Final Test

Memory techniques lesson 24: Final test: memory techniques · Set 165 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 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. 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. 4.True or false: “learning it all at once” is spaced practice. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: “a full night’s sleep” helps your memory. (a) False (b) True
  6. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 15.True or false: “starts the night before” makes a good revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
  16. 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. 17.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “taste salty” goes on the “tongue” branch. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: “review on days 1, 3, 7” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
  19. 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. 20.True or false: “no breaks at all” makes a good revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: revising before bed? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
  22. 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. 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. 24.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: say it aloud? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
  25. 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. 26.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: your home address? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
  27. 27.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: never use it in sums? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
  28. 28.👀 Does this help attention or break it: one task at a time? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
  29. 29.True or false: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know” — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 A 10-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  31. 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. 32.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
  33. 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. 34.🧠 Fact or myth: “sleep helps you learn”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  35. 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. 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. 37.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: gaps that grow longer? (a) spaced practice (b) cramming
  38. 38.True or false: “looking at your phone” helps you keep a new name. (a) True (b) False
  39. 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. 40.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?

Answer key

  1. NESW
  2. keep linking in order
  3. AANSAEA
  4. False
  5. True
  6. step 3
  7. note it, then go back
  8. umbrella
  9. a formula card
  10. 15
  11. in the first day or two
  12. in the same order
  13. carries food to parts
  14. interesting
  15. False
  16. good memory is just luck
  17. True
  18. False
  19. picture the first item
  20. False
  21. helps memory
  22. one word holds a list
  23. redraw it from memory
  24. a smart way
  25. one task at a time
  26. long-term memory
  27. a weak way
  28. helps attention
  29. False
  30. 5
  31. 0 or 5
  32. True
  33. asking a question
  34. a fact
  35. a silly, funny one
  36. 54
  37. spaced practice
  38. False
  39. store it
  40. 4

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