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 is the odd one out? (a) asking how to spell it (b) never using the name (c) rushing the greeting (d) looking at your phone
- 2.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: hearing a dog bark? (a) smell (b) sound (c) sight (d) taste
- 3.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AEASNAA (c) AANSAAE (d) AANSAEA
- 4.🧪 Who can you teach back to? (a) anyone, even a toy (b) nobody (c) only adults (d) only a teacher
- 5.👀 Does this help attention or break it: daydreaming in class? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 6.📅 The digits 27041970 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 2704/19/70 (b) 27/0419/70 (c) 27/04/1970 (d) 270/419/70
- 7.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) backwards (b) in ABC order (c) in any order (d) in the same order
- 8.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: review the picture or find a sound-alike word? (a) review the picture (b) find a sound-alike word
- 9.Which of these makes a strong memory picture? (a) a list of words only (b) the word in small print (c) a sock that smells awful (d) a dull white wall
- 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) main (b) ton (c) won (d) bun
- 11.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) world (c) one (d) star
- 12.Which of these makes a good mind map? (a) all in one colour (b) ideas with no links (c) copying a whole page (d) one key word per branch
- 13.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) reading it once only (b) studying when sleepy (c) skipping revision (d) testing yourself
- 14.📅 The digits 19092010 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 190/920/10 (b) 1909/20/10 (c) 19/09/2010 (d) 19/0920/10
- 15.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: get it back later or pay attention? (a) get it back later (b) pay attention
- 16.📆 Why plan some spare days? (a) for doubts and surprises (b) to start late (c) to waste time (d) to skip revision
- 17.⏰ You revise each of 5 chapters 2 times, for 10 minutes each time. How many minutes is that in all?
- 18.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) lines that link ideas (b) long sentences (c) a colour for each branch (d) topic in the centre
- 19.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 2. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) all on day 13 (b) days 3, 7, 13 (c) days 8, 12, 13 (d) days 6, 10, 14
- 20.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom (saffron, white, green)? (a) Wise Silly Grab (b) Wise Grab Silly (c) Grab Wise Silly (d) Silly Wise Grab
- 21.True or false: “checking messages” breaks attention. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WGS (b) SWG (c) GWS (d) WSG
- 23.🧠 Fact or myth: “practice improves memory”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 24.🏰 Can you use the same palace again for a new list? (a) only for numbers (b) only once a year (c) no, never (d) yes, with new pictures
- 25.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: NESW for the four directions, clockwise? (a) a rhyme (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a first-letter sentence
- 27.🧪 Active recall or passive review: only listening again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
- 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) knee (b) cane (c) shake (d) one
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) practice improves memory (b) we forget without review (c) one reading is enough (d) meaning makes it stick
- 30.👀 Does this help attention or break it: phone in another room? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hours with no break (b) staying up very late (c) short study breaks (d) screens till midnight
- 32.📅 The digits 23021952 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 23/02/1952 (b) 230/219/52 (c) 2302/19/52 (d) 23/0219/52
- 33.📐 In the 9 times table from 9 × 1 to 9 × 10, the digits of each answer add up to… (a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 18 (d) 9
- 34.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Eight Cook Pigs Cook (b) Eight Cook Cook Pigs (c) Cook Eight Pigs Cook (d) Cook Pigs Cook Eight
- 35.📉 When do we forget the most of something new? (a) in the first day or two (b) never (c) after ten years (d) only in exams
- 36.True or false: “a quiet place to study” breaks attention. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) VMEMJSUN (c) NUSJMEVM (d) MVEMJSUN
- 38.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 2 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one task at a time (b) a desk full of toys (c) checking messages (d) three tasks at once
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) one with no picture (b) a dull, plain one (c) a silly, funny one (d) a very long one
Answer key
- asking how to spell it
- sound
- AANSAEA
- anyone, even a toy
- breaks attention
- 27/04/1970
- in the same order
- find a sound-alike word
- a sock that smells awful
- main
- one
- one key word per branch
- testing yourself
- 19/09/2010
- pay attention
- for doubts and surprises
- 100
- long sentences
- days 3, 7, 13
- Silly Wise Grab
- True
- SWG
- a fact
- yes, with new pictures
- 7
- an acronym
- passive review
- cane
- one reading is enough
- helps attention
- short study breaks
- 23/02/1952
- 9
- Eight Cook Pigs Cook
- in the first day or two
- False
- MVEMJSUN
- 4
- one task at a time
- a silly, funny one
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