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 word rhymes with “night”? (a) spell (b) make (c) rock (d) kite
- 2.🗂️ How do you move something into long-term memory? (a) hope for the best (b) review and use it often (c) hear it once (d) read it once
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a formula card (b) read it once (c) know what each letter is (d) use it in a few sums
- 4.🧠 You forgot a new friend’s name one minute after hearing it. What most likely went wrong? (a) you are bad at names (b) names can’t be learned (c) not paying attention (d) your brain is full
- 5.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: link it to the meaning or review the picture? (a) link it to the meaning (b) review the picture
- 6.🔢 Use the pattern of the 11 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 11 times table? (a) 22 (b) 32 (c) 21 (d) 23
- 7.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) testing yourself (b) skipping revision (c) one long session only (d) never testing yourself
- 8.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: orange, shoe, goat? (a) Goats Seven Old (b) Old Seven Goats (c) Seven Old Goats (d) Seven Goats Old
- 10.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: hearing a whistle? (a) sight (b) sound (c) smell (d) touch
- 11.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: your mother tongue? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
- 12.Which of these makes you lose a new name? (a) writing it down later (b) saying the name back (c) asking how to spell it (d) never using the name
- 13.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: replay the story or keep linking in order? (a) replay the story (b) keep linking in order
- 14.🔗 Your link story: a giant doll sings to a whistle; the whistle crashes into a lamp; the lamp falls into a rose; the rose chases a glass. Which item is number 2 in your list? (a) rose (b) whistle (c) doll (d) lamp
- 15.🔗 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
- 16.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to swim (b) your birthday (c) your home address (d) a new word for a minute
- 17.📅 The digits 05062001 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 050/620/01 (b) 05/06/2001 (c) 05/0620/01 (d) 0506/20/01
- 18.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) changes daily (b) has no pattern (c) is very long (d) means something to you
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) mixes subjects each day (b) starts the night before (c) late nights every day (d) only easy subjects
- 20.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for fan, mirror, anchor, jalebi, watch is “Frogs ___ All Jolly Wise”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Bakes (b) Only (c) Mice (d) Tea
- 21.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 1 (b) step 2 (c) step 4 (d) step 3
- 22.📝 A list to learn, in order: sock, van, watch, urn. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) VWUS (b) VSWU (c) SVWU (d) UWVS
- 23.True or false: “blank-page recall” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a normal-sized cup? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 25.True or false: “has short breaks” makes a poor revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🧪 Active recall or passive review: watching it again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
- 27.True or false: “cramming lasts for years” is a myth about memory. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: learning it all at once? (a) spaced practice (b) cramming
- 29.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 30.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 31.🗣️ Your keyword picture is “an elephant with HOT tea”. Which word does it help you remember? (a) neend (b) bandar (c) aam (d) haathi
- 32.🔢 You want to remember the number 307331224732. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 3073 3122 4372 (b) 3073 3122 47332 (c) 3073 3124 732 (d) 3073 3122 4732
- 33.🔢 You want to remember the number 183690897492. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1836 9809 7492 (b) 1183 6908 97492 (c) 1836 9089 7492 (d) 1836 9089 749
- 34.🔢 Use the pattern of the 9 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 9 times table? (a) 44 (b) 46 (c) 45 (d) 47
- 35.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: self-tests every week? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
- 36.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: linking to what you know? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) spare days for doubts (b) no breaks at all (c) mixes subjects each day (d) sleep time kept
- 38.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Ants Mice Frogs Jeeps (b) Jeeps Frogs Mice Ants (c) Frogs Jeeps Mice Ants (d) Frogs Mice Ants Jeeps
- 39.🗺️ Why use one key word on each branch? (a) no reason (b) it saves ink (c) quick to see and recall (d) it looks empty
- 40.🧠 Fact or myth: “everyone forgets things”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
Answer key
- kite
- review and use it often
- read it once
- not paying attention
- link it to the meaning
- 22
- testing yourself
- 8
- Old Seven Goats
- sound
- long-term memory
- never using the name
- keep linking in order
- whistle
- link it to the next item
- a new word for a minute
- 05/06/2001
- means something to you
- mixes subjects each day
- Mice
- step 2
- SVWU
- False
- a weak picture
- False
- passive review
- True
- cramming
- 4
- 3
- haathi
- 3073 3122 4732
- 1836 9089 7492
- 45
- a good timetable
- helps you keep it
- no breaks at all
- Jeeps Frogs Mice Ants
- quick to see and recall
- a fact
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