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.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: a little every day? (a) cramming (b) spaced practice
- 2.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: hours with no break? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 3.🔢 You want to remember the number 946634662326. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 9463 6466 2326 (b) 9466 3466 62326 (c) 9466 3462 326 (d) 9466 3466 2326
- 4.🔢 What is chunking? (a) reading very fast (b) saying it backwards (c) writing it twice (d) splitting into groups
- 5.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) it is a smaller number (b) it is printed bigger (c) it has fewer digits (d) three chunks, not ten
- 6.👋 You meet a new classmate called Sagar. The name means “sea”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) holding a pink lotus (b) floating up in the sky (c) riding a big sea wave (d) in a bright ray of light
- 7.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 2 (W) stand for? (a) saffron (b) green (c) white
- 8.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in ABC order (c) in the same order (d) backwards
- 9.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Water is H-two-O, the formula to know”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 10.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a very long one (b) a dull, plain one (c) one with no picture (d) a silly, funny one
- 11.Which of these is cramming? (a) gaps that grow longer (b) a little every day (c) review on days 1, 3, 7 (d) one huge session
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) making a picture of it (b) cramming the last night (c) a good night’s sleep (d) linking to what you know
- 13.Which of these is cramming? (a) 4 hours the night before (b) gaps that grow longer (c) old topics each Sunday (d) short reviews over weeks
- 14.👀 Does this help attention or break it: phone in another room? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 15.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: bucket, drum, monkey? (a) My Dogs Bakes (b) Dogs Bakes My (c) Dogs My Bakes (d) Bakes Dogs My
- 16.🃏 You test yourself on 14 state capitals and get 6 right. How many go back in the “again” pile?
- 17.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: link it to the next item or picture the first item? (a) link it to the next item (b) picture the first item
- 18.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: never using the name? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 19.True or false: “gaps that grow longer” is cramming. (a) True (b) False
- 20.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: feeling very stressed? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 21.🧠 Which step of memory is this: store it? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1
- 22.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) everyone forgets things (b) we forget without review (c) some kids never forget (d) attention comes first
- 23.🧠 What are the three steps of memory, in order? (a) notice, store, recall (b) recall, store, notice (c) look, forget, guess (d) read, write, sleep
- 24.True or false: “making a picture of it” helps you keep what you learn. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🧪 Active recall or passive review: blank-page recall? (a) passive review (b) active recall
- 26.True or false: “practice improves memory” is a myth about memory. (a) False (b) True
- 27.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) cramming the last night (b) one long session only (c) using it in a sum (d) studying when sleepy
- 28.🔗 Your link story: a giant radio crashes into a needle; the needle chases a sock; the sock rolls into a flute; the flute pulls an urn. Which item is number 3 in your list? (a) sock (b) flute (c) needle (d) urn
- 29.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) making a picture of it (b) studying when sleepy (c) one long session only (d) reading it once only
- 30.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic is “Pink Ants Ink ___ Aunty”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dogs (b) Play (c) Fly (d) Seven
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: goat, wallet, kite? (a) Green Wet Kites (b) Wet Green Kites (c) Wet Kites Green (d) Kites Wet Green
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Every Crazy Crazy Pigs (b) Every Crazy Pigs Crazy (c) Crazy Pigs Crazy Every (d) Crazy Every Pigs Crazy
- 33.📅 You learn five state capitals on day 1. You review 1 day later, then 3 days after that, then 6 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 34.🎵 Which word does “rock” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) king (d) clock
- 35.👋 Which spelling trick fits the word “separate”? (a) it has a double e (b) there is “a rat” in it (c) it rhymes with gate (d) it starts with “per”
- 36.👋 You meet a new classmate called Akash. The name means “sky”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) covered in blue paint (b) holding a dove of peace (c) floating up in the sky (d) riding a big sea wave
- 37.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a giant pink elephant? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 38.🧪 What is the best way to remember what you study? (a) highlight it all (b) read it many times (c) listen once (d) test yourself often
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) eyes on the speaker (b) games open on screen (c) asking a question (d) phone in another room
- 40.Which of these helps your memory? (a) feeling very stressed (b) hours with no break (c) an all-night cram (d) revising before bed
Answer key
- spaced practice
- hurts memory
- 9466 3466 2326
- splitting into groups
- three chunks, not ten
- riding a big sea wave
- white
- in the same order
- a rhyme
- a silly, funny one
- one huge session
- cramming the last night
- 4 hours the night before
- helps attention
- Bakes Dogs My
- 8
- picture the first item
- loses names
- False
- hurts memory
- step 2
- some kids never forget
- notice, store, recall
- True
- active recall
- False
- using it in a sum
- sock
- making a picture of it
- Seven
- Green Wet Kites
- Every Crazy Pigs Crazy
- 11
- clock
- there is “a rat” in it
- floating up in the sky
- a strong picture
- test yourself often
- games open on screen
- revising before bed
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