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) how to swim (b) your birthday (c) the last line you read (d) your best friend’s name
- 2.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: hearing a drum boom? (a) sound (b) smell (c) sight (d) touch
- 3.🧠 Fact or myth: “practice improves memory”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 4.True or false: “self-tests every week” makes a good revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 5.📅 The digits 09101974 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0910/19/74 (b) 091/019/74 (c) 09/1019/74 (d) 09/10/1974
- 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in the same order (c) backwards (d) in ABC order
- 7.📅 The digits 19111984 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 191/119/84 (b) 1911/19/84 (c) 19/1119/84 (d) 19/11/1984
- 8.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) APLE (b) ELPA (c) LEPA (d) LPAE
- 9.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag? (a) a rhyme (b) a first-letter sentence (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for igloo, net, frog, urn, lamp is “Ice Neat ___ Up Love”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Tiny (b) Fly (c) Seven (d) Green
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) daydreaming in class (b) phone in another room (c) notes while listening (d) one task at a time
- 12.🔢 You want to remember the number 515018706501. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 5115 0187 06501 (b) 1501 8706 501 (c) 5510 1870 6501 (d) 5150 1870 6501
- 13.Which of these helps attention? (a) three tasks at once (b) games open on screen (c) a desk full of toys (d) a goal for each session
- 14.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a number you just heard? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
- 15.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) memory can’t improve (b) pills give super memory (c) everyone forgets things (d) good memory is just luck
- 16.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the rainbow colours (b) the planets (c) the oceans (d) the months
- 17.🧠 Fact or myth: “we forget without review”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 18.Which of these helps your memory? (a) feeling very stressed (b) skipping breakfast (c) a healthy breakfast (d) hours with no break
- 19.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) you like spelling (c) the letters make no word (d) the list is short
- 20.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: a formula card? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 21.🧪 Active recall or passive review: answering old questions? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 22.🧪 In teach-back, you get stuck while explaining. That shows… (a) you should stop (b) you are bad at it (c) a gap to study again (d) the topic is useless
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) 15 minutes on 4 days (b) review on days 1, 3, 7 (c) 4 hours the night before (d) a little every day
- 24.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: store it or notice it? (a) store it (b) notice it
- 25.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 30 spellings and get 17 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 11 of them right. How many are still wrong?
- 26.📅 The digits 06031994 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 06/0319/94 (b) 06/03/1994 (c) 0603/19/94 (d) 060/319/94
- 27.True or false: “how to ride a bicycle” is kept in long-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 28.📅 You learn the water cycle 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?
- 29.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 2 (E) stand for? (a) south (b) west (c) east (d) north
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, igloo, cat, jug, frog is “My Ice Cook Jeeps ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Frogs (b) Pigs (c) Runs (d) Sing
- 31.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: close the book or explain it simply? (a) close the book (b) explain it simply
- 32.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) chunking (d) an acronym
- 33.🗺️ After drawing a mind map, how do you test yourself? (a) redraw it from memory (b) throw it away (c) colour it again (d) frame it
- 34.🧠 Fact or myth: “pills give super memory”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 35.🔗 To recall your list, you… (a) read a new list (b) start from nowhere (c) guess (d) replay the story
- 36.📝 A list to learn, in order: vase, kite, fan, doll. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) KVFD (b) KFDV (c) VKFD (d) DFKV
- 37.Which of these helps you keep a new name? (a) rushing the greeting (b) looking at your phone (c) using it in a sentence (d) not asking again
- 38.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) a calm, happy mind (b) playing outdoors (c) revising before bed (d) an all-night cram
- 39.Which of these makes a weak memory picture? (a) a bus made of ice (b) a laughing tiffin box (c) a plain grey box (d) a kite as big as a house
- 40.🧠 What does “recall” mean? (a) reading it again (b) writing it neatly (c) forgetting it (d) bringing it back to mind
Answer key
- the last line you read
- sound
- a fact
- True
- 09/10/1974
- in the same order
- 19/11/1984
- ELPA
- an acronym
- Fly
- daydreaming in class
- 5150 1870 6501
- a goal for each session
- short-term memory
- everyone forgets things
- the rainbow colours
- a fact
- a healthy breakfast
- the letters make no word
- a smart way
- active recall
- a gap to study again
- 4 hours the night before
- notice it
- 2
- 06/03/1994
- True
- 15
- east
- Frogs
- close the book
- an acronym
- redraw it from memory
- a myth
- replay the story
- VKFD
- using it in a sentence
- an all-night cram
- a plain grey box
- bringing it back to mind
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