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Memory techniques lesson 24: Final test: memory techniques · Set 235 · 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.✏️ 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. 2.🧠 Which step of memory is this: pay attention? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
  3. 3.True or false: “a pale, tiny dot” makes a weak memory picture. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: “a plain grey box” makes a weak memory picture. (a) True (b) False
  5. 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. 6.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: saying the name back? (a) helps with names (b) loses names
  7. 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. 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. 9.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: recall it or store it? (a) recall it (b) store it
  10. 10.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: the last line you read? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
  11. 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. 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. 13.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “read words” goes on the “eyes” branch. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: “eyes on the speaker” helps attention. (a) True (b) False
  15. 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. 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. 17.True or false: “topic in a corner” makes a good mind map. (a) True (b) False
  18. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 24.True or false: “gaps that grow longer” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.😴 You go to bed at 8:00 PM and wake up at 6:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
  26. 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. 27.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
  28. 28.🧠 Fact or myth: “everyone forgets things”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  29. 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. 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. 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. 32.🔢 A 20-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
  33. 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. 34.🧪 Active recall or passive review: re-reading the chapter? (a) active recall (b) passive review
  35. 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. 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. 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. 38.True or false: “your mother tongue” is held in short-term memory. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: an all-night cram? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
  40. 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

  1. Eat Cook Pigs Cats
  2. step 1
  3. True
  4. True
  5. 9
  6. helps with names
  7. picture a tiled floor
  8. what each letter means
  9. store it
  10. short-term memory
  11. TV
  12. in the same order
  13. True
  14. True
  15. the letters make no word
  16. 66
  17. False
  18. 2980 9498 1559
  19. thinking of your reply
  20. long sentences
  21. free
  22. 45
  23. 486 745 8994
  24. False
  25. 10
  26. False
  27. 6
  28. a fact
  29. 863 446 673
  30. to keep the order
  31. we forget without review
  32. 5
  33. a pale, tiny dot
  34. passive review
  35. step 4
  36. 5
  37. only a short while
  38. False
  39. hurts memory
  40. RSLF

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