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.🧪 After a self-test, what do you do with mistakes? (a) review them, test again (b) ignore them (c) hide them (d) start a new topic
- 2.True or false: “never use it in sums” is a smart way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 1 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 4
- 4.🧰 What is a mnemonic? (a) a type of exam (b) a kind of pen (c) a memory trick (d) a long book
- 5.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it has fewer digits (b) three chunks, not ten (c) it is a smaller number (d) it is printed bigger
- 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly, in order: egg, larva, pupa, adult? (a) APLE (b) LPAE (c) ELPA (d) LEPA
- 7.Which of these breaks attention? (a) a quiet place to study (b) games open on screen (c) notes while listening (d) phone in another room
- 8.Which of these makes a poor revision timetable? (a) spare days for doubts (b) old topics come back (c) mixes subjects each day (d) no spare days
- 9.👀 Does this help attention or break it: three tasks at once? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 10.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) backwards (c) in the same order (d) in any order
- 11.True or false: “starts weeks early” makes a poor revision timetable. (a) False (b) True
- 12.True or false: reading 26011950 as 26/01/1950 — that is a rhyme. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🧠 Why do we forget many things we learn? (a) memory is fixed (b) we never reviewed them (c) learning is useless (d) the brain is broken
- 14.🗺️ Why use one key word on each branch? (a) it saves ink (b) quick to see and recall (c) no reason (d) it looks empty
- 15.⏱️ You study in 4 blocks of 20 minutes, with a 5-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 16.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, duck, mirror, ice cream. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DWMI (b) DMIW (c) IMDW (d) WDMI
- 17.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 1. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 5, 9, 13 (b) days 2, 5, 12 (c) days 8, 11, 12 (d) all on day 12
- 18.🧠 Which step of memory is this: keep it in memory? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 3
- 19.🧪 Active recall or passive review: teaching your sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 20.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: fix stops in order? (a) step 4 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 21.📅 The digits 28081971 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 28/08/1971 (b) 2808/19/71 (c) 28/0819/71 (d) 280/819/71
- 22.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jeeps Frogs My Aunty (b) Frogs My Aunty Jeeps (c) Frogs Jeeps My Aunty (d) Aunty My Frogs Jeeps
- 23.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 30 spellings and get 20 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 1 of them right. How many are still wrong?
- 24.True or false: “a good night’s sleep” lets what you learn fade. (a) False (b) True
- 25.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for orange, doll, spoon, igloo is “Owls ___ Sing Ink”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Ants (b) Vans (c) Crazy (d) Dogs
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) feeling very stressed (b) skipping breakfast (c) an all-night cram (d) playing outdoors
- 27.👀 Does this help attention or break it: daydreaming in class? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 28.👋 Which way of learning a spelling works best? (a) read it once (b) look-cover-write-check (c) spell it aloud backwards (d) copy it 100 times
- 29.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) never testing yourself (b) reviewing after a week (c) reviewing the next day (d) explaining to a friend
- 30.True or false: “draw a labelled picture” is a weak way to learn a formula. (a) True (b) False
- 31.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) staying up very late (b) a healthy breakfast (c) short study breaks (d) fruit and vegetables
- 32.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: hear the new word? (a) step 2 (b) step 4 (c) step 3 (d) step 1
- 33.🔢 Use the pattern of the 11 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 11 times table? (a) 34 (b) 32 (c) 43 (d) 33
- 34.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) you keep all you read (b) cramming lasts for years (c) memory can’t improve (d) sleep helps you learn
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) your home address (b) an OTP you just got (c) your birthday (d) tables learned long ago
- 36.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: smelling a stinky sock? (a) touch (b) smell (c) taste (d) sight
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a quiet place to study (b) three tasks at once (c) asking a question (d) notes while listening
- 38.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: skip what letters mean? (a) a weak way (b) a smart way
- 39.🏰 Why must the stops always be in the same order? (a) to make it longer (b) no reason (c) to keep the order (d) it looks nice
- 40.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) green, flat and thin (b) have tiny pores (c) attract bees (d) make food using sunlight
Answer key
- review them, test again
- False
- step 2
- a memory trick
- three chunks, not ten
- ELPA
- games open on screen
- no spare days
- breaks attention
- in the same order
- False
- False
- we never reviewed them
- quick to see and recall
- 95
- WDMI
- days 2, 5, 12
- step 2
- active recall
- step 2
- 28/08/1971
- Jeeps Frogs My Aunty
- 9
- False
- Dogs
- playing outdoors
- breaks attention
- look-cover-write-check
- never testing yourself
- False
- staying up very late
- step 1
- 33
- sleep helps you learn
- an OTP you just got
- smell
- three tasks at once
- a weak way
- to keep the order
- attract bees
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