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 of these is held in short-term memory? (a) your mother tongue (b) an OTP you just got (c) how to ride a bicycle (d) your home address
- 2.Which of these breaks attention? (a) a goal for each session (b) notes while listening (c) eyes on the speaker (d) games open on screen
- 3.👀 The teacher is explaining a new sum. Where should your eyes be? (a) out of the window (b) on your phone (c) on your friend (d) on the teacher and board
- 4.True or false: “using it in a sum” lets what you learn fade. (a) False (b) True
- 5.True or false: “one reading is enough” is a fact about memory. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen. You place a shoe by the kitchen, a candle by the dining table, a coconut by the shoe rack, a van by the TV, a duck by the sofa. What did you place by the TV? (a) coconut (b) van (c) candle (d) shoe
- 7.True or false: “draw a labelled picture” is a weak way to learn a formula. (a) True (b) False
- 8.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: making a picture of it? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 9.True or false: “a carry while adding” is held in short-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 10.📅 The digits 27032006 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 27/03/2006 (b) 27/0320/06 (c) 2703/20/06 (d) 270/320/06
- 11.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: smelling jasmine? (a) sight (b) smell (c) touch (d) sound
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) white (b) write (c) run (d) brain
- 13.👀 Does this help attention or break it: a goal for each session? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 14.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 15.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) chunking (b) a mind map (c) a rhyme (d) an acronym
- 16.True or false: “read it once” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lions Pink Aunty Eight (b) Aunty Pink Lions Eight (c) Eight Lions Pink Aunty (d) Lions Eight Pink Aunty
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 9772879092. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 977 279 092 (b) 977 287 79092 (c) 977 287 9092 (d) 977 289 7092
- 19.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a new word for a minute? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
- 20.True or false: “linking it to a picture” helps you keep a new name. (a) False (b) True
- 21.📅 The digits 14031970 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 140/319/70 (b) 14/03/1970 (c) 14/0319/70 (d) 1403/19/70
- 22.🧰 The first letters of your list are W, T, F, Q, X — no word. What helps? (a) an acronym word (b) chunking (c) nothing at all (d) a first-letter sentence
- 23.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or picture the first item? (a) keep linking in order (b) picture the first item
- 24.🧠 Which step of memory is this: store it? (a) step 1 (b) step 3 (c) step 2
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) learning without meaning (b) reading it once only (c) cramming the last night (d) making a picture of it
- 26.📅 You learn a history timeline on day 2. You review 1 day later, then 2 days after that, then 5 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 27.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or link it to the next item? (a) keep linking in order (b) link it to the next item
- 28.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) rain (d) king
- 29.📐 Every answer in the 5 times table ends in… (a) 1 or 6 (b) 2 or 7 (c) any digit (d) 0 or 5
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for banana, kite, umbrella, apple, monkey is “Big Kids Uncle Ants ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Goats (b) Mum (c) Yaks (d) Funny
- 31.🧪 Active recall or passive review: copying notes neatly? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 32.True or false: “know what each letter is” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) noticing the face (b) hearing it only once (c) asking how to spell it (d) saying the name back
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: goat, ball, radio, candle, pillow. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) BRCPG (b) GBRCP (c) BGRCP (d) PCRBG
- 35.True or false: “your birthday” is kept in long-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 36.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: using it in a sentence? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 37.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) one long session only (b) reading it once only (c) using it in a sum (d) learning without meaning
- 38.True or false: “test yourself weekly” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🧠 Can every child learn a “photographic memory” that keeps whole pages? (a) yes, in a week (b) no, that is a myth (c) yes, by staring hard (d) yes, with a pill
- 40.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a list in a fixed order (c) a maths sum (d) a picture
Answer key
- an OTP you just got
- games open on screen
- on the teacher and board
- False
- False
- van
- False
- helps you keep it
- True
- 27/03/2006
- smell
- brain
- helps attention
- what each letter means
- a rhyme
- False
- Eight Lions Pink Aunty
- 977 287 9092
- short-term memory
- True
- 14/03/1970
- a first-letter sentence
- picture the first item
- step 2
- making a picture of it
- 10
- link it to the next item
- tree
- 0 or 5
- Mum
- passive review
- True
- hearing it only once
- GBRCP
- True
- helps with names
- using it in a sum
- True
- no, that is a myth
- a list in a fixed order
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