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.True or false: “never using the name” makes you lose a new name. (a) False (b) True
- 2.🗂️ Why do we split long numbers into chunks? (a) to change the number (b) to make them longer (c) no reason (d) fewer things to hold
- 3.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) more (c) twice (d) again
- 5.🔢 Why is 987 654 3210 easier to hold than 9876543210? (a) three chunks, not ten (b) it is printed bigger (c) it is a smaller number (d) it has fewer digits
- 6.📐 Area of a rectangle = length × breadth. What helps you keep it? (a) read it once (b) picture a tiled floor (c) skip it (d) copy it blindly
- 7.🔗 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
- 8.🧠 What are the three steps of memory, in order? (a) read, write, sleep (b) recall, store, notice (c) look, forget, guess (d) notice, store, recall
- 9.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) ESWN (c) NESW (d) ENSW
- 10.🔢 Use the pattern of the 11 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 11 times table? (a) 89 (b) 87 (c) 88 (d) 98
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) well (b) spell (c) chain (d) shell
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) self-tests every week (b) no time for review (c) late nights every day (d) starts the night before
- 13.📅 The digits 07111969 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 0711/19/69 (b) 071/119/69 (c) 07/1119/69 (d) 07/11/1969
- 14.True or false: “one long session only” lets what you learn fade. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🎨 Why do pictures help you memorise faster? (a) they need no attention (b) they are boring (c) images stick better (d) words are useless
- 16.🎵 Which word does “bright” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) rain (c) night (d) bell
- 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) spell (b) done (c) spring (d) key
- 18.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bake (b) shake (c) wake (d) lock
- 19.📉 When is the best time for the first review of today’s lesson? (a) never (b) today or tomorrow (c) the exam night (d) next month
- 20.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 21.🗺️ Why use one key word on each branch? (a) no reason (b) it saves ink (c) it looks empty (d) quick to see and recall
- 22.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) FMAJ (b) AMFJ (c) JFMA (d) FJMA
- 23.📅 You learn five state capitals on day 3. You review 1 day later, then 3 days after that, then 6 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 24.True or false: “wake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) nothing at all (b) numbers and letter lists (c) only numbers (d) only pictures
- 26.🏰 Which place makes the best memory palace? (a) one you never saw (b) a blank wall (c) a random new city (d) one you know very well
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) screens till midnight (b) a calm, happy mind (c) hours with no break (d) staying up very late
- 28.🔗 Your link story: a giant kite chases a rope; the rope falls into a wallet; the wallet sings to a radio; the radio bounces onto a vase. Which item comes right after the kite? (a) wallet (b) radio (c) vase (d) rope
- 29.🗣️ 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
- 30.🗣️ Your keyword picture for the Marathi word “naak” is “a KNOCK on the nose”. What does “naak” mean? (a) rice (b) nose (c) sugar (d) moon
- 31.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: tiger, candle, whistle? (a) Crazy Wet Tiny (b) Wet Crazy Tiny (c) Crazy Tiny Wet (d) Tiny Crazy Wet
- 32.True or false: “thinking of your reply” makes you lose a new name. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) the national anthem (b) a number you just heard (c) tables learned long ago (d) your mother tongue
- 34.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a bright red flying cow? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 35.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: old topics come back? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
- 36.📅 The digits 16121968 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 1612/19/68 (b) 161/219/68 (c) 16/1219/68 (d) 16/12/1968
- 37.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: review the picture? (a) step 4 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 38.True or false: “phone in another room” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 39.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: self-tests every week? (a) a good timetable (b) a poor timetable
- 40.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Fly Lions Sing Rani (b) Sing Rani Lions Fly (c) Sing Lions Fly Rani (d) Rani Sing Lions Fly
Answer key
- True
- fewer things to hold
- True
- more
- three chunks, not ten
- picture a tiled floor
- picture the first item
- notice, store, recall
- NESW
- 88
- chain
- self-tests every week
- 07/11/1969
- True
- images stick better
- night
- key
- lock
- today or tomorrow
- 7
- quick to see and recall
- JFMA
- 13
- True
- numbers and letter lists
- one you know very well
- a calm, happy mind
- rope
- hear the new word
- nose
- Tiny Crazy Wet
- True
- a number you just heard
- a strong picture
- a good timetable
- 16/12/1968
- step 4
- True
- a good timetable
- Rani Sing Lions Fly
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