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.🗂️ You learned a poem in Class 3 and still know it. Where is it kept? (a) nowhere (b) only your notebook (c) long-term memory (d) short-term memory
- 2.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a new word for a minute? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
- 3.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: gate → door → shoe rack → sofa → TV. You place a sock by the TV, an umpire by the shoe rack, an anchor by the door, an ant by the sofa, a tent by the gate. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) ant (b) tent (c) umpire (d) sock
- 4.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail goes on the “stem” branch? (a) green, flat and thin (b) grow under the ground (c) make food using sunlight (d) holds up the leaves
- 5.True or false: “a clear, tidy desk” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 6.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: no spare days? (a) a good timetable (b) a poor timetable
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cramming lasts for years (b) everyone forgets things (c) pictures stick better (d) practice improves memory
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Eight Love Play Aunty (b) Aunty Play Love Eight (c) Love Eight Play Aunty (d) Love Play Aunty Eight
- 9.🔗 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
- 10.🧰 To learn the 8 planets in order, which method suits best? (a) date chunks (b) a times-table rhyme (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 11.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: skipping breakfast? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 12.🗣️ Your keyword picture is “Mum saying “AYE, AYE!””. Which word does it help you remember? (a) phool (b) baadal (c) billi (d) aai
- 13.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) cramming the last night (b) reviewing the next day (c) reading it once only (d) learning without meaning
- 14.👀 You keep thinking about a match while you study. What helps? (a) watch the match (b) give up studying (c) note it, then go back (d) think about it more
- 15.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) clear (c) known (d) true
- 16.🎵 Which word does “sing” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) tree (c) king (d) night
- 17.🔗 Your story skips an item. What happens when you recall? (a) nothing changes (b) that item is lost (c) it comes back alone (d) you get an extra item
- 18.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AANSAAE (c) AANSAEA (d) AEASNAA
- 19.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: link it to the meaning? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 4 (d) step 3
- 20.📚 You must revise 6 chapters, 3 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 21.🔗 Your link story: a giant ladder sits on a candle; the candle jumps over a kite; the kite bounces onto a mirror; the mirror sings to an onion. Which item is number 5 in your list? (a) candle (b) ladder (c) onion (d) kite
- 22.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) king (c) tree (d) rain
- 23.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: link it to the next item? (a) step 1 (b) step 4 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 24.📆 You missed one day of your timetable. What is best? (a) give up the plan (b) study all night (c) skip that topic (d) adjust the plan calmly
- 25.True or false: “has short breaks” makes a poor revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 26.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) memory can’t improve (b) some kids never forget (c) good memory is just luck (d) sleep helps you learn
- 27.🧰 To learn a times-table fact like 7 × 8 = 56, which method suits best? (a) a rhyme (b) a mind map (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 28.📅 You learn the 7 times table on day 2. You review 2 days later, then 3 days after that, then 7 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 29.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: linking to what you know? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 30.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 5, the tens digit is 5 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 5. What is 9 × 5?
- 31.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 32.📆 What is the first step of a revision timetable? (a) write the exam dates (b) start the last day (c) copy a friend (d) buy new pens
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) small doodles (b) lines that link ideas (c) details on small twigs (d) copying a whole page
- 34.True or false: “watching it again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) string (c) thing (d) fight
- 36.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1 (d) step 4
- 37.Which of these makes a good revision timetable? (a) old topics come back (b) no spare days (c) only easy subjects (d) no breaks at all
- 38.🃏 You test yourself on 19 state capitals and get 8 right. How many go back in the “again” pile?
- 39.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: linking it to a picture? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 40.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: picture the first item? (a) step 4 (b) step 2 (c) step 3 (d) step 1
Answer key
- long-term memory
- short-term memory
- tent
- holds up the leaves
- False
- a poor timetable
- cramming lasts for years
- Eight Love Play Aunty
- link it to the next item
- a first-letter sentence
- hurts memory
- aai
- reviewing the next day
- note it, then go back
- true
- king
- that item is lost
- AANSAEA
- step 3
- 2
- onion
- cake
- step 2
- adjust the plan calmly
- False
- sleep helps you learn
- a rhyme
- 14
- helps you keep it
- 45
- 5
- write the exam dates
- copying a whole page
- False
- fight
- step 2
- old topics come back
- 11
- helps with names
- step 1
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