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.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a list of numbers (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) initials match the list
- 2.Which of these makes a good revision timetable? (a) late nights every day (b) no time for review (c) old topics come back (d) one subject all week
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 167031725018. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 1670 3172 50018 (b) 1670 3172 018 (c) 1670 3172 5018 (d) 1670 3127 5018
- 4.True or false: “a carry while adding” is held in short-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🧠 Fact or myth: “attention comes first”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 6.True or false: “notes while listening” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 7.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wins Grab Seven (b) Wins Seven Grab (c) Grab Wins Seven (d) Seven Wins Grab
- 8.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “chaand” is “a CHANDelier on the moon”. What does “chaand” mean? (a) cat (b) school (c) book (d) moon
- 9.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: revising before bed? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 10.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 11.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) key (b) ton (c) lock (d) shell
- 12.🔗 Your link story: a giant tomato falls into an umbrella; the umbrella chases a wallet; the wallet rolls into a lamp; the lamp jumps over a monkey. Which item comes right before the monkey? (a) wallet (b) umbrella (c) lamp (d) monkey
- 13.🧪 Active recall or passive review: closed-book writing? (a) passive review (b) active recall
- 14.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 12 flashcards and get 5 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 3 of them right. How many are still wrong?
- 15.🎵 Which word does “run” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) cake (c) king (d) night
- 16.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: how to swim? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) feeling very stressed (b) hours with no break (c) fruit and vegetables (d) an all-night cram
- 18.📝 A list to learn, in order: cat, flute, apple, igloo. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) IAFC (b) FAIC (c) CFAI (d) FCAI
- 19.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: fix stops in order? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2 (d) step 4
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Neat Seven Wins (b) Wins Seven Every Neat (c) Every Seven Wins Neat (d) Neat Every Seven Wins
- 21.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: keep linking in order? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 4
- 22.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 23.🔗 To recall your list, you… (a) read a new list (b) start from nowhere (c) replay the story (d) guess
- 24.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 3, the tens digit is 3 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 3. What is 9 × 3?
- 25.True or false: “snake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🧠 Why do we forget many things we learn? (a) we never reviewed them (b) the brain is broken (c) memory is fixed (d) learning is useless
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) write (b) lake (c) done (d) spell
- 28.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 6 (O) stand for? (a) red (b) green (c) violet (d) orange
- 29.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: store it or pay attention? (a) store it (b) pay attention
- 30.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) twice (b) fast (c) again (d) more
- 31.🔗 Your link story: a giant umbrella bounces onto an umpire; the umpire falls into a tent; the tent tickles an apple; the apple sits on a vase. Which item comes right before the vase? (a) apple (b) tent (c) vase (d) umpire
- 32.Which of these is kept in long-term memory? (a) a new word for a minute (b) a price you just heard (c) directions told just now (d) your mother tongue
- 33.🗓️ Why should the gaps grow longer? (a) to save paper (b) to forget faster (c) no reason (d) each review lasts longer
- 34.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) drinking enough water (b) a healthy breakfast (c) a calm, happy mind (d) studying very hungry
- 35.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “smell flowers” goes on the “nose” branch. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reviewing after a week (b) reviewing the next day (c) studying when sleepy (d) making a picture of it
- 37.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) using it in a sum (b) testing yourself (c) explaining to a friend (d) learning without meaning
- 38.🧠 Fact or myth: “everyone forgets things”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 39.Which of these helps your memory? (a) staying up very late (b) skipping breakfast (c) feeling very stressed (d) short study breaks
- 40.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: ideas with no links? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
Answer key
- initials match the list
- old topics come back
- 1670 3172 5018
- True
- a fact
- False
- Seven Wins Grab
- moon
- helps memory
- 9
- ton
- lamp
- active recall
- 4
- sun
- long-term memory
- fruit and vegetables
- CFAI
- step 2
- Neat Every Seven Wins
- step 3
- chunking
- replay the story
- 27
- True
- we never reviewed them
- lake
- orange
- pay attention
- more
- apple
- your mother tongue
- each review lasts longer
- studying very hungry
- True
- studying when sleepy
- learning without meaning
- a fact
- short study breaks
- a poor mind map
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