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.🔤 “AANSAEA” helps you remember the continents, biggest first. What does letter 7 (A) stand for? (a) Australia (b) Africa (c) Asia (d) South America
- 2.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: get it back later or pay attention? (a) get it back later (b) pay attention
- 3.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) reading very fast (d) splitting into groups
- 4.🗂️ You hear a new number and don’t repeat it. How long does it usually stay in short-term memory? (a) for years (b) until next month (c) forever (d) only a short while
- 5.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a long story (b) a maths sum (c) a list in a fixed order (d) a picture
- 6.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) knock (b) lane (c) wing (d) bite
- 7.📚 You must revise 4 chapters, 2 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 8.📝 A list to learn, in order: mirror, watch, kite, tomato. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) WKTM (b) WMKT (c) TKWM (d) MWKT
- 9.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “not the same”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) different (b) diferent (c) diffrent (d) differant
- 10.Which of these makes a strong memory picture? (a) a bus made of ice (b) a plain grey box (c) a blurry shape (d) the word in small print
- 11.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which branch does “hold the plant firm” go on? (a) stem (b) roots (c) flowers (d) leaves
- 12.🧪 After a self-test, what do you do with mistakes? (a) start a new topic (b) review them, test again (c) hide them (d) ignore them
- 13.⏱️ You study in 4 blocks of 20 minutes, with a 10-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 14.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “ped” is “a tree on a note PAD”. What does “ped” mean? (a) water (b) cloud (c) foot (d) tree
- 15.📅 The digits 11101996 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1110/19/96 (b) 11/10/1996 (c) 11/1019/96 (d) 111/019/96
- 16.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen. You place a net by the sofa, a shoe by the TV, a coconut by the kitchen, a lamp by the shoe rack, a ball by the dining table. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) lamp (b) ball (c) coconut (d) shoe
- 17.🧠 Why do we forget many things we learn? (a) the brain is broken (b) learning is useless (c) memory is fixed (d) we never reviewed them
- 18.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: your best friend’s name? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 19.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) your best friend’s name (b) your home address (c) the last line you read (d) your mother tongue
- 20.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) skipping breakfast (b) playing outdoors (c) a calm, happy mind (d) short study breaks
- 21.🔤 “ELPA” helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly. What does letter 3 (P) stand for? (a) pupa (b) adult (c) egg (d) larva
- 22.🧠 Fact or myth: “practice improves memory”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 23.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 24.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: using it in a sum? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 25.True or false: “your best friend’s name” is held in short-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 26.📐 In the 9 times table from 9 × 1 to 9 × 10, the digits of each answer add up to… (a) 18 (b) 10 (c) 8 (d) 9
- 27.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: fix stops in order? (a) step 2 (b) step 4 (c) step 1 (d) step 3
- 28.👀 Does this help attention or break it: asking a question? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 29.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Sing Rani Lions Fly (b) Fly Lions Sing Rani (c) Rani Sing Lions Fly (d) Sing Lions Fly Rani
- 30.True or false: NESW for the four directions, clockwise — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which detail goes on the “skin” branch? (a) read words (b) hear a bell (c) smell food (d) feel hot and cold
- 32.🗣️ 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
- 33.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: linking to what you know? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 34.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: find a sound-alike word or link it to the meaning? (a) find a sound-alike word (b) link it to the meaning
- 35.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which branch does “smell smoke” go on? (a) tongue (b) eyes (c) skin (d) nose
- 36.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or fix stops in order? (a) walk the route to recall (b) fix stops in order
- 37.📝 A list to learn, in order: coconut, whistle, glass, duck. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) CWGD (b) WGDC (c) DGWC (d) WCGD
- 38.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) studying when sleepy (b) cramming the last night (c) one long session only (d) testing yourself
- 39.📅 The digits 23111999 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2311/19/99 (b) 23/1119/99 (c) 23/11/1999 (d) 231/119/99
- 40.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) carries food to parts (b) turn into fruit (c) carries water upward (d) holds up the leaves
Answer key
- Australia
- pay attention
- splitting into groups
- only a short while
- a list in a fixed order
- knock
- 2
- MWKT
- different
- a bus made of ice
- roots
- review them, test again
- 110
- tree
- 11/10/1996
- lamp
- we never reviewed them
- long-term memory
- the last line you read
- skipping breakfast
- pupa
- a fact
- 7
- helps you keep it
- False
- 9
- step 2
- helps attention
- Rani Sing Lions Fly
- False
- feel hot and cold
- find a sound-alike word
- helps you keep it
- find a sound-alike word
- nose
- fix stops in order
- CWGD
- testing yourself
- 23/11/1999
- turn into fruit
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