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 acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) IVBGYOR (b) IBGYORV (c) VIBGYOR (d) ROYGBIV
- 2.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) splitting into groups
- 3.⏰ You revise each of 5 chapters 2 times, for 20 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
- 4.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for mango, coconut, jalebi, drum is “___ Cats Jolly Dance”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Mice (b) Every (c) Dogs (d) Pink
- 5.Which of these helps you keep a new name? (a) never using the name (b) looking at your phone (c) linking it to a picture (d) not asking again
- 6.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for needle, sock, orange, apple is “Nani ___ Owls All”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Aunty (b) Lazy (c) Jump (d) Seven
- 7.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) initials match the list (c) a list of numbers (d) a very long word
- 8.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) cramming lasts for years (b) memory can’t improve (c) practice improves memory (d) one reading is enough
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, bucket, pencil? (a) Pigs Bakes Neat (b) Bakes Neat Pigs (c) Neat Bakes Pigs (d) Bakes Pigs Neat
- 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) run (b) sock (c) lake (d) bright
- 11.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a blurry shape? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 12.👀 Does this help attention or break it: games open on screen? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 13.📅 The digits 18032006 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 180/320/06 (b) 18/03/2006 (c) 18/0320/06 (d) 1803/20/06
- 14.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) a number you just heard (b) how to ride a bicycle (c) the national anthem (d) your home address
- 15.🗣️ In the keyword method, the keyword… (a) means the same (b) is spelled the same (c) sounds like the new word (d) is always in Hindi
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a number you just heard (b) a carry while adding (c) the last line you read (d) your mother tongue
- 17.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a giant pink elephant? (a) a strong picture (b) a weak picture
- 18.Which of these makes a strong memory picture? (a) a sock that smells awful (b) a far-off still tree (c) a normal-sized cup (d) a list of words only
- 19.😴 You go to bed at 10:00 PM and wake up at 7:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
- 20.True or false: “a normal-sized cup” makes a weak memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 21.👀 Your phone buzzes while you study. What is best? (a) reply at once (b) turn the sound up (c) keep it in your hand (d) put it in another room
- 22.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: hearing it only once? (a) helps with names (b) loses names
- 23.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) changes daily (c) means something to you (d) has no pattern
- 24.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: using it in a sum? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 25.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a long book (b) a kind of pen (c) a memory trick (d) a type of exam
- 26.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: skipping breakfast? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 27.🧠 Fact or myth: “sleep helps you learn”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 28.👀 Does this help attention or break it: chatting in class? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 29.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) one long session only (b) explaining to a friend (c) using it in a sum (d) reviewing after a week
- 30.🏰 Which place makes the best memory palace? (a) a blank wall (b) one you never saw (c) a random new city (d) one you know very well
- 31.🎨 How could you picture the idea “freedom”? (a) nothing at all (b) a bird leaving a cage (c) a blank page (d) the letters only
- 32.True or false: “a little every day” is spaced practice. (a) False (b) True
- 33.👀 Does this help attention or break it: a clear, tidy desk? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 34.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 1 (E) stand for? (a) collection (b) condensation (c) evaporation (d) precipitation
- 35.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: coconut, umbrella, pencil? (a) Uncle Pink Cook (b) Cook Uncle Pink (c) Pink Uncle Cook (d) Uncle Cook Pink
- 36.True or false: “short study breaks” is bad for your memory. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🎨 To remember the word “umbrella”, which picture is best? (a) a plain box (b) a small grey dot (c) the word “umbrella” (d) a giant rainbow umbrella
- 38.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is “My Vines Every ___ Jump Silly Up Neat”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Yaks (b) Mice (c) Cats (d) Pigs
- 39.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: a colour for each branch? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
- 40.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: check what you missed or explain it simply? (a) check what you missed (b) explain it simply
Answer key
- VIBGYOR
- splitting into groups
- 200
- Mice
- linking it to a picture
- Seven
- initials match the list
- practice improves memory
- Neat Bakes Pigs
- run
- a weak picture
- breaks attention
- 18/03/2006
- a number you just heard
- sounds like the new word
- your mother tongue
- a strong picture
- a sock that smells awful
- 9
- True
- put it in another room
- loses names
- means something to you
- helps you keep it
- a memory trick
- hurts memory
- a fact
- breaks attention
- one long session only
- one you know very well
- a bird leaving a cage
- True
- helps attention
- evaporation
- Cook Uncle Pink
- False
- a giant rainbow umbrella
- Mice
- a good mind map
- explain it simply
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