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.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) VMEMJSUN (c) VEMJSUNM (d) NUSJMEVM
- 2.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) again (c) twice (d) fast
- 3.🔤 “JFMA” helps you remember the first four months. What does letter 1 (J) stand for? (a) January (b) April (c) February (d) March
- 4.🗣️ In the keyword method, the keyword… (a) is spelled the same (b) sounds like the new word (c) means the same (d) is always in Hindi
- 5.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: replay the story or link it to the next item? (a) replay the story (b) link it to the next item
- 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying notes neatly (b) staring at the page (c) blank-page recall (d) only listening again
- 7.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: picture the first item or keep linking in order? (a) picture the first item (b) keep linking in order
- 8.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 6, the tens digit is 6 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 6. What is 9 × 6?
- 9.True or false: “mix up the letters” is a weak way to learn a formula. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🗣️ Which keyword picture is stronger? (a) just the word (b) no picture at all (c) a funny, moving one (d) a plain, still one
- 11.True or false: “studying when sleepy” lets what you learn fade. (a) False (b) True
- 12.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) screens till midnight (b) a full night’s sleep (c) fruit and vegetables (d) a calm, happy mind
- 13.📝 A list to learn, in order: bucket, ant, net, owl, rose. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) ABNOR (b) ANORB (c) BANOR (d) RONAB
- 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) watching it again (b) copying notes neatly (c) only listening again (d) explaining it aloud
- 15.🎨 Which makes a memory picture stronger? (a) make it small and plain (b) make it big and funny (c) keep it still (d) make it grey
- 16.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
- 17.😴 You go to bed at 9:00 PM and wake up at 5:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
- 18.📅 The digits 13032004 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 13/0320/04 (b) 1303/20/04 (c) 13/03/2004 (d) 130/320/04
- 19.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) a price you just heard (b) your birthday (c) your best friend’s name (d) your mother tongue
- 20.🔗 Your link story: a giant anchor jumps over a monkey; the monkey bounces onto a violin; the violin falls into a jeep; the jeep pulls a bucket. Which item comes right after the monkey? (a) monkey (b) violin (c) jeep (d) bucket
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in any order (c) in ABC order (d) in the same order
- 22.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the rhyme method (b) the method of loci (c) chunking (d) the pomodoro
- 23.Which of these breaks attention? (a) scrolling while reading (b) one task at a time (c) eyes on the speaker (d) phone in another room
- 24.Which of these helps attention? (a) checking messages (b) three tasks at once (c) asking a question (d) studying half-asleep
- 25.🔢 You want to remember the number 8774802669. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 877 840 2669 (b) 874 802 669 (c) 877 748 02669 (d) 877 480 2669
- 26.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: making a picture of it? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 27.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Silly Wins Neat (b) Wins Silly Every Neat (c) Every Neat Silly Wins (d) Neat Every Silly Wins
- 28.😴 Which break is best during study? (a) scrolling videos (b) a short walk or stretch (c) a long TV show (d) an hour of games
- 29.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) cramming lasts for years (b) you keep all you read (c) practice improves memory (d) some kids never forget
- 30.True or false: “done” rhymes with “clock”. (a) True (b) False
- 31.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for orange, lamp, parrot, jug is “___ Lazy Pink Jump”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kind (b) Every (c) Only (d) Neat
- 32.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) has no pattern (b) changes daily (c) means something to you (d) is very long
- 33.True or false: “attention comes first” is a fact about memory. (a) False (b) True
- 34.Which of these helps you keep a new name? (a) looking at your phone (b) linking it to a picture (c) thinking of your reply (d) hearing it only once
- 35.Which memory picture uses the sense of taste? (a) seeing a red kite fly (b) hearing a whistle (c) tasting raw mango (d) hearing a drum boom
- 36.🔗 To recall your list, you… (a) read a new list (b) replay the story (c) guess (d) start from nowhere
- 37.🔢 You want to remember the number 550039838. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 550 038 938 (b) 550 039 38 (c) 550 039 838 (d) 555 003 9838
- 38.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: directions told just now? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 39.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to swim (b) the last line you read (c) how to ride a bicycle (d) the national anthem
- 40.Which of these helps attention? (a) chatting in class (b) studying half-asleep (c) scrolling while reading (d) eyes on the speaker
Answer key
- MVEMJSUN
- more
- January
- sounds like the new word
- link it to the next item
- blank-page recall
- picture the first item
- 54
- True
- a funny, moving one
- True
- screens till midnight
- BANOR
- explaining it aloud
- make it big and funny
- a rhyme
- 8
- 13/03/2004
- a price you just heard
- violin
- in the same order
- the method of loci
- scrolling while reading
- asking a question
- 877 480 2669
- helps you keep it
- Neat Every Silly Wins
- a short walk or stretch
- practice improves memory
- False
- Only
- means something to you
- True
- linking it to a picture
- tasting raw mango
- replay the story
- 550 039 838
- short-term memory
- the last line you read
- eyes on the speaker
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