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.True or false: “staying up very late” helps your memory. (a) True (b) False
- 2.👀 Your phone buzzes while you study. What is best? (a) reply at once (b) turn the sound up (c) put it in another room (d) keep it in your hand
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) noticing the face (b) linking it to a picture (c) using it in a sentence (d) rushing the greeting
- 4.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a long poem (b) a drawing (c) first letters as a word (d) a type of number
- 5.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECCP (b) CPCE (c) CEPC (d) ECPC
- 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) only listening again (b) copying notes neatly (c) re-reading the chapter (d) closed-book writing
- 7.⏱️ You study in 2 blocks of 20 minutes, with a 5-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 8.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: link it to the next item or keep linking in order? (a) link it to the next item (b) keep linking in order
- 9.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: one subject all week? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
- 10.🧠 What does “recall” mean? (a) reading it again (b) bringing it back to mind (c) writing it neatly (d) forgetting it
- 11.📅 You learn the 7 times table on day 4. You review 1 day later, then 2 days after that, then 6 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a sock that smells awful (b) a plain grey box (c) a laughing tiffin box (d) a kite as big as a house
- 13.👀 Does this help attention or break it: chatting in class? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) learn (b) know (c) say (d) write
- 15.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: fix stops in order? (a) step 3 (b) step 4 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 16.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to swim (b) a new word for a minute (c) how to ride a bicycle (d) your home address
- 17.True or false: “long sentences” makes a poor mind map. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) everyone forgets things (b) we forget without review (c) one reading is enough (d) attention comes first
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a calm, happy mind (b) a healthy breakfast (c) studying very hungry (d) fruit and vegetables
- 20.Which of these helps you keep a new name? (a) hearing it only once (b) never using the name (c) not asking again (d) saying the name back
- 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting everything (c) only listening again (d) copying notes neatly
- 22.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: link it to the meaning or find a sound-alike word? (a) link it to the meaning (b) find a sound-alike word
- 23.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “what you know”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) nowledge (b) knowledge (c) knowladge (d) knowlege
- 24.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in the same order (c) backwards (d) in ABC order
- 25.🗺️ How does a mind map help memory? (a) it shows how ideas link (b) it hides the ideas (c) it needs no review (d) it is longer
- 26.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) green, flat and thin (b) have tiny pores (c) carries food to parts (d) make food using sunlight
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) smell (b) spring (c) won (d) sock
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) asking a question (b) studying half-asleep (c) short planned breaks (d) a quiet place to study
- 29.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or link it to the next item? (a) keep linking in order (b) link it to the next item
- 30.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: link it to the next item or picture the first item? (a) link it to the next item (b) picture the first item
- 31.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: say it aloud? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) one (b) spring (c) rake (d) smell
- 33.🏰 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
- 34.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 35.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which branch does “read words” go on? (a) skin (b) nose (c) eyes (d) ears
- 36.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) planet (c) world (d) star
- 37.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) rain (c) night (d) king
- 38.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) MVEMJSUN
- 39.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or put pictures at stops? (a) walk the route to recall (b) put pictures at stops
- 40.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: know what each letter is? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
Answer key
- False
- put it in another room
- rushing the greeting
- first letters as a word
- ECPC
- closed-book writing
- 45
- link it to the next item
- a poor timetable
- bringing it back to mind
- 13
- a plain grey box
- breaks attention
- know
- step 2
- a new word for a minute
- True
- one reading is enough
- studying very hungry
- saying the name back
- covering the answers
- find a sound-alike word
- knowledge
- in the same order
- it shows how ideas link
- carries food to parts
- won
- studying half-asleep
- link it to the next item
- picture the first item
- a smart way
- smell
- fix stops in order
- 5
- eyes
- one
- sun
- MVEMJSUN
- put pictures at stops
- a smart way
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