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 first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: jalebi, kettle, tomato? (a) Tiny Kind Jeeps (b) Kind Jeeps Tiny (c) Jeeps Kind Tiny (d) Kind Tiny Jeeps
- 2.Which of these helps your memory? (a) an all-night cram (b) a healthy breakfast (c) sitting still all day (d) feeling very stressed
- 3.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 4.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) VEMJSUNM (c) VMEMJSUN (d) MVEMJSUN
- 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for candle, violin, jalebi, orange is “Crazy Very Jolly ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Inside (b) My (c) Dogs (d) Old
- 6.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) we forget without review (b) pictures stick better (c) meaning makes it stick (d) one reading is enough
- 7.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide. You place a mango by the slide, a doll by the park gate, a jug by the fruit cart, a frog by the banyan tree, an owl by the swing. Walking the route, which item do you meet second? (a) doll (b) owl (c) jug (d) mango
- 8.🗓️ What does spaced repetition mean? (a) reviewing with gaps (b) never reviewing (c) reading it 10 times now (d) reviewing once
- 9.True or false: “lines that link ideas” makes a poor mind map. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tables learned long ago (b) how to ride a bicycle (c) your best friend’s name (d) a new word for a minute
- 11.Which of these breaks attention? (a) three tasks at once (b) eyes on the speaker (c) short planned breaks (d) a clear, tidy desk
- 12.🔗 Your link story: a giant vase bounces onto a whistle; the whistle chases a candle; the candle jumps over a wallet; the wallet sits on a rose. Which item is number 1 in your list? (a) candle (b) rose (c) whistle (d) vase
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) testing yourself (b) linking to what you know (c) reading it once only (d) a good night’s sleep
- 14.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) GWS (c) WSG (d) WGS
- 15.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: an OTP you just got? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 16.🏰 Which place makes the best memory palace? (a) a random new city (b) one you know very well (c) a blank wall (d) one you never saw
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a number you just heard (b) your mother tongue (c) tables learned long ago (d) your home address
- 18.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) night (b) sun (c) bell (d) rain
- 19.📅 The digits 09101997 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 091/019/97 (b) 0910/19/97 (c) 09/1019/97 (d) 09/10/1997
- 20.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or fix stops in order? (a) put pictures at stops (b) fix stops in order
- 21.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) small doodles (b) details on small twigs (c) topic in the centre (d) tiny, cramped writing
- 22.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 6. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) all on day 16 (b) days 11, 14, 16 (c) days 8, 11, 16 (d) days 10, 14, 18
- 23.😴 You have a test tomorrow. What is better? (a) skip sleep and dinner (b) study all night (c) revise, then sleep well (d) play games all night
- 24.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “paani” is “water in a PAN”. What does “paani” mean? (a) water (b) moon (c) key (d) flower
- 25.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: a good night’s sleep? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) light (b) tea (c) wing (d) lake
- 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) only listening again (b) answering old questions (c) highlighting everything (d) re-reading the chapter
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) details on small twigs (b) lines that link ideas (c) long sentences (d) a colour for each branch
- 29.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a nest by the stairs, a ball by the blackboard, a key by the classroom door, a lemon by the notice board, a frog by the teacher’s desk. What did you place by the teacher’s desk? (a) frog (b) nest (c) key (d) ball
- 30.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: keep linking in order? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 2
- 31.🗓️ Your exam is in 9 days. You have 5 chapters and need 1 day to learn each one. The other days are for revision. How many revision days do you get?
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) topic in the centre (b) copying a whole page (c) details on small twigs (d) one key word per branch
- 33.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 1 (b) step 4 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 34.🧰 To learn a 10-digit phone number, which method suits best? (a) a mind map (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 35.⏰ You revise each of 4 chapters 2 times, for 10 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
- 36.🎨 Why do pictures help you memorise faster? (a) they are boring (b) words are useless (c) they need no attention (d) images stick better
- 37.📅 The digits 01082007 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 01/08/2007 (b) 010/820/07 (c) 01/0820/07 (d) 0108/20/07
- 38.True or false: “testing yourself” lets what you learn fade. (a) True (b) False
- 39.True or false: “details on small twigs” makes a good mind map. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a far-off still tree (b) the word in small print (c) a sock that smells awful (d) a plain grey box
Answer key
- Jeeps Kind Tiny
- a healthy breakfast
- 8
- MVEMJSUN
- Old
- one reading is enough
- jug
- reviewing with gaps
- False
- a new word for a minute
- three tasks at once
- vase
- reading it once only
- SWG
- short-term memory
- one you know very well
- a number you just heard
- rain
- 09/10/1997
- fix stops in order
- tiny, cramped writing
- days 8, 11, 16
- revise, then sleep well
- water
- helps you keep it
- tea
- answering old questions
- long sentences
- frog
- step 3
- 4
- copying a whole page
- step 2
- chunking
- 80
- images stick better
- 01/08/2007
- False
- True
- a sock that smells awful
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