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.
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pigs Cats Eat (b) Cats Pigs Cook Eat (c) Eat Cook Pigs Cats (d) Cook Eat Pigs Cats
- 2.🧠 Which step of memory is this: pay attention? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
- 3.True or false: “a pale, tiny dot” makes a weak memory picture. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: “a plain grey box” makes a weak memory picture. (a) True (b) False
- 5.📅 You learn the water cycle on day 2. You review 1 day later, then 2 days after that, then 4 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 6.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: saying the name back? (a) helps with names (b) loses names
- 7.📐 Area of a rectangle = length × breadth. What helps you keep it? (a) skip it (b) picture a tiled floor (c) read it once (d) copy it blindly
- 8.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) its spelling backwards (c) nothing else (d) what each letter means
- 9.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: recall it or store it? (a) recall it (b) store it
- 10.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: the last line you read? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
- 11.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: door → shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table. You place a tent by the sofa, a duck by the dining table, an orange by the TV, a pencil by the door, an urn by the shoe rack. Where did you place the orange? (a) door (b) sofa (c) TV (d) shoe rack
- 12.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in the same order (b) in ABC order (c) backwards (d) in any order
- 13.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “read words” goes on the “eyes” branch. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: “eyes on the speaker” helps attention. (a) True (b) False
- 15.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) the letters make no word (b) the list is short (c) there is no list (d) you like spelling
- 16.🔢 Use the pattern of the 11 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 11 times table? (a) 67 (b) 66 (c) 65 (d) 76
- 17.True or false: “topic in a corner” makes a good mind map. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🔢 You want to remember the number 298094981559. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2980 9498 5159 (b) 2980 9498 1559 (c) 2980 9498 15559 (d) 2809 4981 559
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it down later (b) thinking of your reply (c) asking how to spell it (d) using it in a sentence
- 20.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) small doodles (b) a colour for each branch (c) long sentences (d) details on small twigs
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) long (b) free (c) cold (d) fast
- 22.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 5, the tens digit is 5 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 5. What is 9 × 5?
- 23.🔢 You want to remember the number 4867458994. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 486 745 994 (b) 486 745 8994 (c) 486 745 89994 (d) 486 745 9894
- 24.True or false: “gaps that grow longer” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
- 25.😴 You go to bed at 8:00 PM and wake up at 6:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
- 26.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “feel rough or smooth” goes on the “eyes” branch. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 28.🧠 Fact or myth: “everyone forgets things”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 29.🔢 You want to remember the number 863446673. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 863 446 673 (b) 863 446 6673 (c) 836 446 673 (d) 634 466 73
- 30.🏰 Why must the stops always be in the same order? (a) no reason (b) to keep the order (c) it looks nice (d) to make it longer
- 31.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) pills give super memory (b) cramming lasts for years (c) memory can’t improve (d) we forget without review
- 32.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 33.Which of these makes a weak memory picture? (a) a bright red flying cow (b) a pale, tiny dot (c) a sock that smells awful (d) a giant pink elephant
- 34.🧪 Active recall or passive review: re-reading the chapter? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 35.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: review the picture? (a) step 4 (b) step 2 (c) step 3 (d) step 1
- 36.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 21 formulas and get 14 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 2 of them right. How many are still wrong?
- 37.🗂️ You hear a new number and don’t repeat it. How long does it usually stay in short-term memory? (a) for years (b) until next month (c) forever (d) only a short while
- 38.True or false: “your mother tongue” is held in short-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 39.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: an all-night cram? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top, in order: root, stem, leaf, flower? (a) FLSR (b) SLFR (c) SRLF (d) RSLF
Answer key
- Eat Cook Pigs Cats
- step 1
- True
- True
- 9
- helps with names
- picture a tiled floor
- what each letter means
- store it
- short-term memory
- TV
- in the same order
- True
- True
- the letters make no word
- 66
- False
- 2980 9498 1559
- thinking of your reply
- long sentences
- free
- 45
- 486 745 8994
- False
- 10
- False
- 6
- a fact
- 863 446 673
- to keep the order
- we forget without review
- 5
- a pale, tiny dot
- passive review
- step 4
- 5
- only a short while
- False
- hurts memory
- RSLF
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