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.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for fan, jeep, kite, guava is “___ Jeeps Kids Grab”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Fly (b) Ink (c) Owls (d) Uncle
- 2.🗣️ 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
- 3.True or false: “short planned breaks” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 3 (b) step 4 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 5.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: link it to the meaning or review the picture? (a) link it to the meaning (b) review the picture
- 6.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: rushing the greeting? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 7.😴 You often can’t sleep or feel unwell. What should you do? (a) buy memory pills (b) study even more (c) ignore it (d) tell a parent or doctor
- 8.True or false: “short reviews over weeks” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: “one huge session” is spaced practice. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Indian (c) Atlantic (d) Arctic
- 11.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: saying 1947 as nineteen forty-seven? (a) chunking (b) a rhyme (c) a first-letter sentence (d) an acronym
- 12.True or false: “gaps that grow longer” is spaced practice. (a) False (b) True
- 13.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: a formula card? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
- 14.🔢 Use the pattern of the 11 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 11 times table? (a) 32 (b) 22 (c) 23 (d) 21
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: cat, mirror, jeep? (a) Mice Crazy Jolly (b) Jolly Mice Crazy (c) Mice Jolly Crazy (d) Crazy Mice Jolly
- 16.🗣️ Your keyword picture is “I NEED sleep”. Which word does it help you remember? (a) shala (b) sakhar (c) paay (d) neend
- 17.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) late nights every day (b) self-tests every week (c) no breaks at all (d) one subject all week
- 19.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 6, the tens digit is 6 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 6. What is 9 × 6?
- 20.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: see where it comes from? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 21.⏱️ You study in 3 blocks of 20 minutes, with a 5-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 22.📅 You learn 12 new spellings on day 6. You review 1 day later, then 2 days after that, then 5 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 23.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: explaining to a friend? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 24.🗂️ How do you move something into long-term memory? (a) review and use it often (b) hope for the best (c) hear it once (d) read it once
- 25.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 6. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 12, 16, 17 (b) days 9, 12, 15 (c) all on day 17 (d) days 7, 11, 17
- 26.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or link it to the next item? (a) keep linking in order (b) link it to the next item
- 27.🧠 Can memory get better with practice? (a) no, never (b) only with pills (c) yes, with good methods (d) only for adults
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pills give super memory (b) some kids never forget (c) one reading is enough (d) pictures stick better
- 29.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a type of number (b) a long poem (c) a drawing (d) first letters as a word
- 30.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 5 (Y) stand for? (a) indigo (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
- 31.🔢 Use the pattern of the 9 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 9 times table? (a) 64 (b) 63 (c) 65 (d) 62
- 32.📉 When is the best time for the first review of today’s lesson? (a) next month (b) the exam night (c) never (d) today or tomorrow
- 33.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) done (b) ended (c) learnt (d) over
- 34.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the rhyme method (b) the pomodoro (c) chunking (d) the method of loci
- 35.🎨 Adding sound, smell or movement to a picture makes it… (a) too slow (b) harder to keep (c) easier to keep (d) useless
- 36.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly done”? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) chunking (d) a first-letter sentence
- 37.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) thing (b) sing (c) ring (d) won
- 38.🔤 Which is the right spelling of the word for “a shop or a company”? Tip: say it in parts. (a) bussiness (b) busness (c) buisness (d) business
- 39.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) pictures stick better (b) good memory is just luck (c) memory can’t improve (d) one reading is enough
- 40.👀 Does this help attention or break it: a desk full of toys? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
Answer key
- Fly
- hear the new word
- False
- step 2
- link it to the meaning
- loses names
- tell a parent or doctor
- False
- False
- Arctic
- chunking
- True
- a smart way
- 22
- Crazy Mice Jolly
- neend
- 9
- self-tests every week
- 54
- a smart way
- 70
- 14
- helps you keep it
- review and use it often
- days 7, 11, 17
- link it to the next item
- yes, with good methods
- pictures stick better
- first letters as a word
- yellow
- 63
- today or tomorrow
- done
- the method of loci
- easier to keep
- a rhyme
- won
- business
- pictures stick better
- breaks attention
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