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 you keep it, or let it fade: using it in a sum? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 2.True or false: “read it once” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) a type of number (c) a long poem (d) first letters as a word
- 4.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: notice it or recall it? (a) notice it (b) recall it
- 5.True or false: “studying very hungry” is bad for your memory. (a) False (b) True
- 6.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) initials match the list (b) a rhyme about cats (c) a very long word (d) a list of numbers
- 7.🔢 What is chunking? (a) writing it twice (b) saying it backwards (c) splitting into groups (d) reading very fast
- 8.🔗 Your link story: a giant spoon crashes into an ice cream; the ice cream rolls into a van; the van sings to a violin; the violin falls into a lamp. Which item is number 2 in your list? (a) spoon (b) ice cream (c) lamp (d) violin
- 9.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 4, the tens digit is 4 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 4. What is 9 × 4?
- 10.🗣️ In Marathi, “bhaat” means rice. Which keyword picture helps you remember it? (a) a fish lighting a MATCH (b) a PIE under your foot (c) a BATTLE in the clouds (d) a BAT made of rice
- 11.🔗 Your story skips an item. What happens when you recall? (a) that item is lost (b) nothing changes (c) it comes back alone (d) you get an extra item
- 12.🧠 Fact or myth: “meaning makes it stick”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 13.🔢 A 15-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 14.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: an all-night cram? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 15.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: thinking of your reply? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 16.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a rhyme. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) WGS
- 18.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 13 Hindi words and get 4 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 1 of them right. How many are still wrong?
- 19.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 9, the tens digit is 9 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 9. What is 9 × 9?
- 20.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which detail goes on the “eyes” branch? (a) smell food (b) hear a bell (c) feel rough or smooth (d) see shapes
- 21.True or false: “ideas with no links” makes a poor mind map. (a) True (b) False
- 22.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) making a picture of it (b) studying when sleepy (c) reviewing the next day (d) a good night’s sleep
- 23.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a maths sum (b) a picture (c) a long story (d) a list in a fixed order
- 24.🧪 In teach-back, you get stuck while explaining. That shows… (a) you are bad at it (b) the topic is useless (c) you should stop (d) a gap to study again
- 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) staring at the page (b) copying notes neatly (c) closed-book writing (d) re-reading the chapter
- 26.😴 You go to bed at 10:00 PM and wake up at 8:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
- 27.🗂️ How do you move something into long-term memory? (a) hear it once (b) review and use it often (c) read it once (d) hope for the best
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) key (b) smell (c) sell (d) shell
- 29.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a candle by the teacher’s desk, a mirror by the classroom door, a watch by the blackboard, a pillow by the library, an umpire by the stairs. Where did you place the umpire? (a) classroom door (b) blackboard (c) stairs (d) library
- 30.📚 You must revise 6 chapters, 2 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 31.🧠 What are the three steps of memory, in order? (a) notice, store, recall (b) read, write, sleep (c) recall, store, notice (d) look, forget, guess
- 32.Which of these helps attention? (a) scrolling while reading (b) chatting in class (c) a clear, tidy desk (d) checking messages
- 33.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) tricks (b) steps (c) games (d) songs
- 34.True or false: “closed-book writing” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
- 35.⏱️ You study in 3 blocks of 20 minutes, with a 10-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 36.True or false: “a bright red flying cow” makes a strong memory picture. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🏰 You have 10 items but your route has only 5 stops. What helps? (a) skip 5 items (b) add more stops (c) use no route (d) put all at one stop
- 38.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) meaning makes it stick (b) cramming lasts for years (c) you keep all you read (d) pills give super memory
- 39.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to swim (b) your mother tongue (c) a price you just heard (d) your best friend’s name
- 40.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or walk the route to recall? (a) put pictures at stops (b) walk the route to recall
Answer key
- helps you keep it
- False
- first letters as a word
- notice it
- True
- initials match the list
- splitting into groups
- ice cream
- 36
- a BAT made of rice
- that item is lost
- a fact
- 5
- hurts memory
- loses names
- False
- SWG
- 8
- 81
- see shapes
- True
- studying when sleepy
- a list in a fixed order
- a gap to study again
- closed-book writing
- 10
- review and use it often
- key
- stairs
- 3
- notice, store, recall
- a clear, tidy desk
- tricks
- True
- 80
- True
- add more stops
- meaning makes it stick
- a price you just heard
- put pictures at stops
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