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 is the odd one out? (a) a list of words only (b) a dull white wall (c) a bus made of ice (d) a pale, tiny dot
- 2.🔢 You want to remember the number 957701585. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 975 701 585 (b) 957 701 58 (c) 957 701 585 (d) 957 701 1585
- 3.📝 A list to learn, in order: drum, urn, ant, rose, tomato. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) UARTD (b) DUART (c) UDART (d) TRAUD
- 4.🗂️ You hear a new number and don’t repeat it. How long does it usually stay in short-term memory? (a) until next month (b) only a short while (c) for years (d) forever
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) mixes subjects each day (b) late nights every day (c) one subject all week (d) only easy subjects
- 6.🔗 Your link story: a giant umbrella bounces onto an owl; the owl rolls into a jug; the jug falls into an apple; the apple sings to a doll. Which item comes right before the apple? (a) jug (b) doll (c) apple (d) umbrella
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: sock, umpire, candle? (a) Up Sing Crazy (b) Crazy Up Sing (c) Sing Up Crazy (d) Up Crazy Sing
- 8.🔢 You want to remember the number 2385143789. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 235 814 3789 (b) 223 851 43789 (c) 238 543 789 (d) 238 514 3789
- 9.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: never use it in sums? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 10.👀 Does this help attention or break it: phone in another room? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one task at a time (b) games open on screen (c) phone in another room (d) notes while listening
- 12.True or false: “scrolling while reading” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🔗 Why does a story keep the order of a list? (a) each link leads on (b) stories are short (c) it uses numbers (d) it rhymes
- 14.True or false: “studying when sleepy” helps you keep what you learn. (a) False (b) True
- 15.True or false: “say it aloud” is a weak way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) nothing else (c) what each letter means (d) its spelling backwards
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) phone in another room (b) short planned breaks (c) a quiet place to study (d) TV on while studying
- 18.True or false: “one long session only” lets what you learn fade. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) games open on screen (b) checking messages (c) notes while listening (d) chatting in class
- 20.🧠 Which step of memory is this: store it? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1
- 21.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 9, the tens digit is 9 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 9. What is 9 × 9?
- 22.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 23.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: mix up the letters? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 24.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: short study breaks? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 25.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: gate → door → shoe rack → sofa → TV. You place an ant by the sofa, a glass by the shoe rack, an ice cream by the TV, a ladder by the door, a drum by the gate. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) ice cream (b) drum (c) ladder (d) glass
- 26.True or false: “a clear, tidy desk” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: pay attention or get it back later? (a) pay attention (b) get it back later
- 28.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cook Pink Cook Eight (b) Eight Cook Pink Cook (c) Cook Eight Pink Cook (d) Eight Cook Cook Pink
- 29.👀 You read a page but can’t say what it was about. What helps most? (a) turn the TV on (b) read it faster (c) read it again, focused (d) skip the chapter
- 30.True or false: “writing it down later” makes you lose a new name. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: pay attention or recall it? (a) pay attention (b) recall it
- 32.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) planet (c) world (d) one
- 33.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Lazy Every Pigs Ants (b) Lazy Pigs Ants Every (c) Every Lazy Pigs Ants (d) Ants Pigs Lazy Every
- 34.👋 You pictured a new friend holding a pink lotus. Which name does the picture help you recall? (a) Prithvi (b) Chandni (c) Kamal (d) Anil
- 35.⏰ You revise each of 6 chapters 2 times, for 15 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
- 36.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: replay the story or picture the first item? (a) replay the story (b) picture the first item
- 37.🧠 Which step of memory is this: keep it in memory? (a) step 1 (b) step 2 (c) step 3
- 38.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) GWS (c) SWG (d) WSG
- 40.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 4 (G) stand for? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
Answer key
- a bus made of ice
- 957 701 585
- DUART
- only a short while
- mixes subjects each day
- jug
- Sing Up Crazy
- 238 514 3789
- a weak way
- helps attention
- games open on screen
- False
- each link leads on
- False
- False
- what each letter means
- TV on while studying
- True
- notes while listening
- step 2
- 81
- step 4
- a weak way
- helps memory
- drum
- False
- pay attention
- Eight Cook Pink Cook
- read it again, focused
- False
- pay attention
- one
- Every Lazy Pigs Ants
- Kamal
- 180
- picture the first item
- step 2
- 5
- SWG
- green
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