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Memory Techniques Worksheet: Final Test

Memory techniques lesson 24: Final test: memory techniques · Set 171 · 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 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. 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. 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. 4.True or false: “using it in a sum” lets what you learn fade. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: “one reading is enough” is a fact about memory. (a) True (b) False
  6. 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. 7.True or false: “draw a labelled picture” is a weak way to learn a formula. (a) True (b) False
  8. 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. 9.True or false: “a carry while adding” is held in short-term memory. (a) False (b) True
  10. 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. 11.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: smelling jasmine? (a) sight (b) smell (c) touch (d) sound
  12. 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) white (b) write (c) run (d) brain
  13. 13.👀 Does this help attention or break it: a goal for each session? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
  14. 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. 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. 16.True or false: “read it once” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
  17. 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. 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. 19.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a new word for a minute? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
  20. 20.True or false: “linking it to a picture” helps you keep a new name. (a) False (b) True
  21. 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. 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. 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. 24.🧠 Which step of memory is this: store it? (a) step 1 (b) step 3 (c) step 2
  25. 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. 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. 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. 28.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) sun (c) rain (d) king
  29. 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. 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. 31.🧪 Active recall or passive review: copying notes neatly? (a) active recall (b) passive review
  32. 32.True or false: “know what each letter is” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
  33. 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. 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. 35.True or false: “your birthday” is kept in long-term memory. (a) True (b) False
  36. 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. 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. 38.True or false: “test yourself weekly” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
  39. 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. 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

  1. an OTP you just got
  2. games open on screen
  3. on the teacher and board
  4. False
  5. False
  6. van
  7. False
  8. helps you keep it
  9. True
  10. 27/03/2006
  11. smell
  12. brain
  13. helps attention
  14. what each letter means
  15. a rhyme
  16. False
  17. Eight Lions Pink Aunty
  18. 977 287 9092
  19. short-term memory
  20. True
  21. 14/03/1970
  22. a first-letter sentence
  23. picture the first item
  24. step 2
  25. making a picture of it
  26. 10
  27. link it to the next item
  28. tree
  29. 0 or 5
  30. Mum
  31. passive review
  32. True
  33. hearing it only once
  34. GBRCP
  35. True
  36. helps with names
  37. using it in a sum
  38. True
  39. no, that is a myth
  40. a list in a fixed order

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