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.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide → bench. You place a pencil by the slide, an owl by the fruit cart, a parrot by the bench, a tomato by the park gate, a coconut by the swing. What did you place by the swing? (a) coconut (b) parrot (c) tomato (d) pencil
- 2.Which of these helps attention? (a) checking messages (b) a goal for each session (c) studying half-asleep (d) a desk full of toys
- 3.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 2 (V) stand for? (a) Venus (b) Neptune (c) Earth (d) Mars
- 4.👋 Which spelling trick fits the word “separate”? (a) it rhymes with gate (b) it starts with “per” (c) it has a double e (d) there is “a rat” in it
- 5.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: all in one colour? (a) a good mind map (b) a poor mind map
- 6.True or false: “how to ride a bicycle” is held in short-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 7.Which memory picture uses the sense of taste? (a) hearing a dog bark (b) hearing a drum boom (c) tasting raw mango (d) feeling a prickly cactus
- 8.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 5, the tens digit is 5 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 5. What is 9 × 5?
- 9.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: studying when sleepy? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking messages (b) games open on screen (c) TV on while studying (d) phone in another room
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) short reviews over weeks (b) old topics each Sunday (c) all reviews on one day (d) review on days 1, 3, 7
- 12.🔢 Which is a good way to chunk the year 1947? (a) 194 and 7 (b) 1 9 4 7 (c) 1 and 947 (d) 19 and 47
- 13.🔗 Your link story: a giant umbrella sits on a kettle; the kettle pulls a sock; the sock crashes into a doll; the doll rolls into an owl. Which item comes right before the sock? (a) doll (b) umbrella (c) owl (d) kettle
- 14.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “the second month”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) Februry (b) Febrary (c) February (d) Febuary
- 15.True or false: “cramming the last night” helps you keep what you learn. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: picture the first item? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2 (d) step 4
- 17.True or false: “your home address” is held in short-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: picture the first item or link it to the next item? (a) picture the first item (b) link it to the next item
- 19.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “the world around us”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) envirnment (b) enviroment (c) environmint (d) environment
- 20.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its colour (b) what each letter means (c) nothing else (d) its spelling backwards
- 21.🧠 Fact or myth: “one reading is enough”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 22.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a list of words only? (a) a strong picture (b) a weak picture
- 23.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a list of numbers (c) initials match the list (d) a very long word
- 24.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) you like spelling (c) the letters make no word (d) the list is short
- 25.🗣️ The keyword method is best for… (a) adding sums (b) drawing maps (c) long numbers (d) new words in a language
- 26.Which of these helps attention? (a) games open on screen (b) a desk full of toys (c) TV on while studying (d) eyes on the speaker
- 27.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) writing it twice (c) saying it backwards (d) splitting into groups
- 28.True or false: “three tasks at once” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 29.Which of these is a weak way to learn a formula? (a) skip what letters mean (b) use it in a few sums (c) say it aloud (d) draw a labelled picture
- 30.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a rhyme (d) a first-letter sentence
- 31.📉 When is the best time for the first review of today’s lesson? (a) the exam night (b) never (c) next month (d) today or tomorrow
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a pale, tiny dot (b) a blurry shape (c) a pencil that dances (d) a dull white wall
- 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) bright (b) one (c) cane (d) tell
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cram it the last night (b) read it once (c) use it in a few sums (d) copy it 50 times blindly
- 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) watching it again (b) quizzing with cards (c) answering old questions (d) closed-book writing
- 36.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) one with no picture (c) a very long one (d) a silly, funny one
- 37.📅 You learn 10 science words on day 1. You review 2 days later, then 4 days after that, then 7 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 38.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) sun (c) cake (d) rain
- 39.📆 What is the first step of a revision timetable? (a) start the last day (b) buy new pens (c) copy a friend (d) write the exam dates
- 40.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: a colour for each branch? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
Answer key
- coconut
- a goal for each session
- Venus
- there is “a rat” in it
- a poor mind map
- False
- tasting raw mango
- 45
- lets it fade
- phone in another room
- all reviews on one day
- 19 and 47
- kettle
- February
- False
- step 1
- False
- picture the first item
- environment
- what each letter means
- a myth
- a weak picture
- initials match the list
- the letters make no word
- new words in a language
- eyes on the speaker
- splitting into groups
- False
- skip what letters mean
- an acronym
- today or tomorrow
- a pencil that dances
- bright
- use it in a few sums
- watching it again
- a silly, funny one
- 14
- cake
- write the exam dates
- a good mind map
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