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: apple, frog, spoon? (a) Silly Frogs Ants (b) Ants Frogs Silly (c) Frogs Ants Silly (d) Frogs Silly Ants
- 2.True or false: “explaining it aloud” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
- 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) explaining it aloud (b) closed-book writing (c) teaching your sibling (d) re-reading the chapter
- 4.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: copy it 50 times blindly? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 5.🧠 Which step of memory is this: get it back later? (a) step 1 (b) step 2 (c) step 3
- 6.True or false: “read it once” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 7.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: cramming the last night? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 8.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or walk the route to recall? (a) put pictures at stops (b) walk the route to recall
- 9.True or false: “your mother tongue” is held in short-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a key by the teacher’s desk, a drum by the stairs, a doll by the blackboard, a tiger by the classroom door, a ladder by the notice board. Walking the route, which item do you meet fifth? (a) tiger (b) doll (c) ladder (d) drum
- 11.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is printed bigger (b) it is a smaller number (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it has fewer digits
- 12.👀 Does this help attention or break it: TV on while studying? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 13.True or false: “the last line you read” is kept in long-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) small doodles (b) details on small twigs (c) a colour for each branch (d) ideas with no links
- 15.🔗 Your link story: a giant ice cream falls into a frog; the frog sits on an anchor; the anchor tickles an apple; the apple sings to a jalebi. Which item comes right before the frog? (a) jalebi (b) ice cream (c) anchor (d) frog
- 16.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) your home address (b) your birthday (c) how to ride a bicycle (d) a number you just heard
- 17.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection is “Every ___ Play Crazy”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Cats (b) Dogs (c) Ice (d) Pigs
- 18.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: your best friend’s name? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 19.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for apple, urn, frog, pillow, doll is “Ants Under Fly ___ Dogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Green (b) Big (c) Pink (d) Cats
- 20.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which branch does “carries water upward” go on? (a) leaves (b) stem (c) roots (d) flowers
- 21.🔢 You want to remember the number 629043278. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 629 043 728 (b) 629 044 3278 (c) 629 043 278 (d) 629 032 78
- 22.🔢 Instead of holding 9 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 23.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to ride a bicycle (b) the national anthem (c) a carry while adding (d) your best friend’s name
- 24.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) a good night’s sleep (b) studying when sleepy (c) using it in a sum (d) making a picture of it
- 25.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: hear the new word? (a) step 2 (b) step 4 (c) step 1 (d) step 3
- 26.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: one huge session? (a) cramming (b) spaced practice
- 27.Which memory picture uses the sense of taste? (a) smelling jasmine (b) tasting salty chips (c) seeing a red kite fly (d) hearing a whistle
- 28.🧪 Why does testing yourself help memory? (a) tests are just fun (b) recalling makes it stick (c) it is faster to read (d) it needs no effort
- 29.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) one long session only (b) making a picture of it (c) cramming the last night (d) reading it once only
- 30.True or false: “asking how to spell it” helps you keep a new name. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pictures stick better (b) you keep all you read (c) some kids never forget (d) one reading is enough
- 32.🏰 You have 10 items but your route has only 5 stops. What helps? (a) skip 5 items (b) add more stops (c) use no route (d) put all at one stop
- 33.Which memory picture uses the sense of sight? (a) watching fireworks (b) hands in icy water (c) hearing a drum boom (d) tasting bitter karela
- 34.🧠 Fact or myth: “practice improves memory”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 35.True or false: “studying very hungry” helps your memory. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🔢 You want to remember the number 280458255646. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 2804 5825 6546 (b) 2804 5582 55646 (c) 2804 5825 5646 (d) 2804 5825 646
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using it in a sentence (b) saying the name back (c) asking how to spell it (d) not asking again
- 38.🔗 Your link story: a giant ball falls into a lamp; the lamp chases a duck; the duck rolls into an apple; the apple bounces onto an anchor. Which item is number 5 in your list? (a) ball (b) anchor (c) apple (d) lamp
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) games open on screen (b) short planned breaks (c) a desk full of toys (d) checking messages
- 40.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
Answer key
- Ants Frogs Silly
- True
- re-reading the chapter
- a weak way
- step 3
- False
- lets it fade
- put pictures at stops
- False
- doll
- three chunks, not ten
- breaks attention
- False
- ideas with no links
- ice cream
- a number you just heard
- Cats
- long-term memory
- Pink
- stem
- 629 043 278
- 6
- a carry while adding
- studying when sleepy
- step 1
- cramming
- tasting salty chips
- recalling makes it stick
- making a picture of it
- True
- pictures stick better
- add more stops
- watching fireworks
- a fact
- False
- 2804 5825 5646
- not asking again
- anchor
- short planned breaks
- 2
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