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.👀 Does this help attention or break it: short planned breaks? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 2.📉 What does the forgetting curve show? (a) forgetting starts late (b) we never forget (c) memory is fixed (d) we forget fast at first
- 3.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which detail goes on the “skin” branch? (a) read words (b) taste sour (c) hear voices (d) feel hot and cold
- 4.📅 The digits 09022021 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 09/0220/21 (b) 090/220/21 (c) 0902/20/21 (d) 09/02/2021
- 5.🗺️ What goes in the centre of a mind map? (a) the date (b) the main topic (c) your name (d) a small detail
- 6.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Marathi word “sakhar” is “a SACK full of sugar”. What does “sakhar” mean? (a) moon (b) sugar (c) tree (d) fish
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for sock, tent, kettle, jeep is “Sing Tiny ___ Jump”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Vines (b) Kites (c) Tea (d) Goats
- 8.🔤 “ECPC” helps you remember the steps of the water cycle. What does letter 4 (C) stand for? (a) condensation (b) precipitation (c) collection (d) evaporation
- 9.🔗 Your story skips an item. What happens when you recall? (a) that item is lost (b) it comes back alone (c) you get an extra item (d) nothing changes
- 10.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 4 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 11.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECPC (b) CEPC (c) ECCP (d) CPCE
- 12.👋 You meet a new classmate called Tara. The name means “star”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) wearing a shiny star (b) holding a pink lotus (c) covered in blue paint (d) in soft moonlight
- 13.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) string (b) sock (c) shake (d) white
- 14.📝 A list to learn, in order: onion, flute, violin, tent. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FVTO (b) FOVT (c) TVFO (d) OFVT
- 15.👀 Does this help attention or break it: games open on screen? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 16.🔢 A 9-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 17.True or false: “no spare days” makes a poor revision timetable. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: link it to the meaning? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 2
- 19.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) learning without meaning (b) cramming the last night (c) skipping revision (d) making a picture of it
- 20.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place a whistle by the swing, a jalebi by the park gate, a cat by the fruit cart, a duck by the post box, an onion by the banyan tree. Where did you place the whistle? (a) post box (b) fruit cart (c) banyan tree (d) swing
- 21.🧠 Which step of memory is this: pay attention? (a) step 1 (b) step 3 (c) step 2
- 22.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a type of number (c) first letters as a word (d) a long poem
- 23.🏰 Can you use the same palace again for a new list? (a) only for numbers (b) no, never (c) only once a year (d) yes, with new pictures
- 24.🗂️ You are adding 48 + 37 and hold the carry 1 in your head. Which memory is that? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory (c) muscle memory (d) no memory
- 25.True or false: “a sock that smells awful” makes a weak memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 1 (M) stand for? (a) Neptune (b) Saturn (c) Uranus (d) Mercury
- 27.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) reviewing after a week (b) reading it once only (c) reviewing the next day (d) making a picture of it
- 28.🧪 In teach-back, you get stuck while explaining. That shows… (a) the topic is useless (b) you are bad at it (c) you should stop (d) a gap to study again
- 29.True or false: “quizzing with cards” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: candle, apple, tent? (a) All Tea Cook (b) All Cook Tea (c) Tea All Cook (d) Cook All Tea
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sleep helps you learn (b) some kids never forget (c) testing yourself helps (d) meaning makes it stick
- 32.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: hearing it only once? (a) helps with names (b) loses names
- 33.🗂️ You hear a new number and don’t repeat it. How long does it usually stay in short-term memory? (a) only a short while (b) forever (c) for years (d) until next month
- 34.🗣️ Your keyword picture is “a DOLL with big eyes”. Which word does it help you remember? (a) mez (b) dola (c) bhaat (d) billi
- 35.🎨 How could you picture the idea “freedom”? (a) a blank page (b) the letters only (c) a bird leaving a cage (d) nothing at all
- 36.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: link it to the meaning or hear the new word? (a) link it to the meaning (b) hear the new word
- 37.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) backwards (c) in ABC order (d) in the same order
- 38.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) attention comes first (b) we forget without review (c) you keep all you read (d) sleep helps you learn
- 39.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to swim (b) your best friend’s name (c) a new word for a minute (d) how to ride a bicycle
- 40.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Hindi word “neend” is “I NEED sleep”. What does “neend” mean? (a) mother (b) book (c) sleep (d) fish
Answer key
- helps attention
- we forget fast at first
- feel hot and cold
- 09/02/2021
- the main topic
- sugar
- Kites
- collection
- that item is lost
- step 1
- ECPC
- wearing a shiny star
- sock
- OFVT
- breaks attention
- 3
- True
- step 3
- making a picture of it
- swing
- step 1
- first letters as a word
- yes, with new pictures
- short-term memory
- False
- Mercury
- reading it once only
- a gap to study again
- False
- Cook All Tea
- some kids never forget
- loses names
- only a short while
- dola
- a bird leaving a cage
- hear the new word
- in the same order
- you keep all you read
- a new word for a minute
- sleep
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