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Memory Techniques Worksheet: Final Test

Memory techniques lesson 24: Final test: memory techniques · Set 187 · 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.🗂️ 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. 2.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a new word for a minute? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
  3. 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. 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. 5.True or false: “a clear, tidy desk” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: no spare days? (a) a good timetable (b) a poor timetable
  7. 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. 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. 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. 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. 11.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: skipping breakfast? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
  12. 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. 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. 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. 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. 16.🎵 Which word does “sing” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) tree (c) king (d) night
  17. 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. 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. 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. 20.📚 You must revise 6 chapters, 3 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
  21. 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. 22.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) king (c) tree (d) rain
  23. 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. 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. 25.True or false: “has short breaks” makes a poor revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
  26. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 31.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  32. 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. 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. 34.True or false: “watching it again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) string (c) thing (d) fight
  36. 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. 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. 38.🃏 You test yourself on 19 state capitals and get 8 right. How many go back in the “again” pile?
  39. 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. 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

  1. long-term memory
  2. short-term memory
  3. tent
  4. holds up the leaves
  5. False
  6. a poor timetable
  7. cramming lasts for years
  8. Eight Love Play Aunty
  9. link it to the next item
  10. a first-letter sentence
  11. hurts memory
  12. aai
  13. reviewing the next day
  14. note it, then go back
  15. true
  16. king
  17. that item is lost
  18. AANSAEA
  19. step 3
  20. 2
  21. onion
  22. cake
  23. step 2
  24. adjust the plan calmly
  25. False
  26. sleep helps you learn
  27. a rhyme
  28. 14
  29. helps you keep it
  30. 45
  31. 5
  32. write the exam dates
  33. copying a whole page
  34. False
  35. fight
  36. step 2
  37. old topics come back
  38. 11
  39. helps with names
  40. step 1

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