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.🔤 “RSLF” helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top. What does letter 1 (R) stand for? (a) leaf (b) root (c) flower (d) stem
- 2.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: the national anthem? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 3.True or false: “a bright red flying cow” makes a strong memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 4 (d) step 3
- 5.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: making a picture of it? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 6.📅 The digits 04021992 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 04/0219/92 (b) 040/219/92 (c) 04/02/1992 (d) 0402/19/92
- 7.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “the world around us”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) environment (b) enviroment (c) environmint (d) envirnment
- 8.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it is printed bigger (c) three chunks, not ten (d) it has fewer digits
- 9.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 10.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) details on small twigs (b) topic in the centre (c) copying a whole page (d) lines that link ideas
- 11.True or false: “sleep time kept” makes a good revision timetable. (a) False (b) True
- 12.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a number you just heard? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 13.🔗 Your link story: a giant owl rolls into an onion; the onion sits on a radio; the radio tickles an orange; the orange bounces onto a fan. Which item comes right after the radio? (a) radio (b) onion (c) fan (d) orange
- 14.🎨 Which makes a memory picture stronger? (a) keep it still (b) make it big and funny (c) make it small and plain (d) make it grey
- 15.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) VIBGYOR (b) IVBGYOR (c) ROYGBIV (d) IBGYORV
- 16.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the planets (b) the oceans (c) the months (d) the rainbow colours
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a bright red flying cow (b) the word in small print (c) a bus made of ice (d) a giant pink elephant
- 18.True or false: “one long session only” helps you keep what you learn. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 1 (M) stand for? (a) Mercury (b) Uranus (c) Earth (d) Saturn
- 20.True or false: “a new word for a minute” is kept in long-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 22.Which of these makes a good mind map? (a) topic in the centre (b) copying a whole page (c) topic in a corner (d) all in one colour
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a little every day (b) one huge session (c) 4 hours the night before (d) starting the exam eve
- 24.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: needle, duck, flute? (a) Dogs Funny Nani (b) Dogs Nani Funny (c) Nani Dogs Funny (d) Funny Dogs Nani
- 25.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: explaining to a friend? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 26.🎵 Which word does “sell” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) bell (c) cake (d) night
- 27.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 4
- 28.True or false: “notes while listening” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) staying up very late (b) an all-night cram (c) drinking enough water (d) sitting still all day
- 30.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which branch does “read words” go on? (a) tongue (b) ears (c) eyes (d) skin
- 31.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) nothing else (c) its colour (d) what each letter means
- 32.👀 You read a page but can’t say what it was about. What helps most? (a) read it again, focused (b) skip the chapter (c) read it faster (d) turn the TV on
- 33.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: link it to the meaning? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 34.🔤 “NESW” helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north. What does letter 3 (S) stand for? (a) west (b) north (c) east (d) south
- 35.📚 You must revise 4 chapters, 2 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 36.🧪 Active recall or passive review: explaining it aloud? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 37.🧠 Fact or myth: “meaning makes it stick”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) block (b) sock (c) knock (d) run
- 39.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) VEMJSUNM (d) MVEMJSUN
- 40.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: how to swim? (a) short-term memory (b) long-term memory
Answer key
- root
- long-term memory
- True
- step 1
- helps you keep it
- 04/02/1992
- environment
- three chunks, not ten
- 2
- copying a whole page
- True
- short-term memory
- orange
- make it big and funny
- VIBGYOR
- the rainbow colours
- the word in small print
- False
- Mercury
- False
- 7
- topic in the centre
- a little every day
- Nani Dogs Funny
- helps you keep it
- bell
- step 4
- False
- drinking enough water
- eyes
- what each letter means
- read it again, focused
- step 3
- south
- 2
- active recall
- a fact
- run
- MVEMJSUN
- long-term memory
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