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.🏰 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
- 2.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IVBGYOR (c) VIBGYOR (d) IBGYORV
- 3.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: link it to the next item? (a) step 1 (b) step 4 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) thinking of your reply (b) linking it to a picture (c) saying the name back (d) writing it down later
- 5.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 6.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: linking to what you know? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 7.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail goes on the “leaves” branch? (a) holds up the leaves (b) hold the plant firm (c) turn into fruit (d) have tiny pores
- 8.True or false: “asking a question” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 9.📅 The digits 05101951 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 051/019/51 (b) 05/1019/51 (c) 0510/19/51 (d) 05/10/1951
- 10.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 3, the tens digit is 3 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 3. What is 9 × 3?
- 11.🔤 An acronym works best for… (a) a picture (b) a maths sum (c) a long story (d) a list in a fixed order
- 12.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sock (b) lock (c) rock (d) train
- 13.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 7, the tens digit is 7 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 7. What is 9 × 7?
- 14.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: starts weeks early? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
- 15.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 6, the tens digit is 6 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 6. What is 9 × 6?
- 16.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: saying the name back? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 17.True or false: “one long session only” lets what you learn fade. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1 (d) step 4
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) chatting in class (b) checking messages (c) asking a question (d) TV on while studying
- 20.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: door → shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table. You place a fan by the sofa, an umpire by the dining table, a goat by the door, a rope by the shoe rack, a jeep by the TV. What did you place by the door? (a) jeep (b) fan (c) goat (d) umpire
- 21.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 22.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) linking to what you know (b) using it in a sum (c) one long session only (d) reviewing the next day
- 23.📅 You learn 10 science words on day 1. You review 2 days later, then 3 days after that, then 6 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 24.🏰 You have 10 items but your route has only 5 stops. What helps? (a) use no route (b) put all at one stop (c) add more stops (d) skip 5 items
- 25.🗣️ The keyword method is best for… (a) new words in a language (b) long numbers (c) adding sums (d) drawing maps
- 26.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for fan, pillow, banana, mango, sock is “Fly Pink Bakes Mum ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Dogs (b) Wise (c) Pigs (d) Seven
- 27.True or false: “tables learned long ago” is kept in long-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 28.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: studying when sleepy? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 29.🔤 What is an acronym? (a) a drawing (b) first letters as a word (c) a long poem (d) a type of number
- 30.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Eight Pigs Cook (b) Eight Cats Pigs Cook (c) Cook Pigs Cats Eight (d) Cats Pigs Cook Eight
- 31.⏱️ You study in 3 blocks of 20 minutes, with a 5-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 32.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FJMA (c) JFMA (d) FMAJ
- 33.Which of these is a weak way to learn a formula? (a) a formula card (b) draw a labelled picture (c) never use it in sums (d) see where it comes from
- 34.📝 A list to learn, in order: tiger, sock, mango, onion. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) OMST (b) SMOT (c) TSMO (d) STMO
- 35.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: making a picture of it? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fight (b) bright (c) make (d) bite
- 37.📐 In the 9 times table from 9 × 1 to 9 × 10, the digits of each answer add up to… (a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 18 (d) 10
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) good memory is just luck (b) pills give super memory (c) everyone forgets things (d) one reading is enough
- 39.📅 You learn 10 science words on day 4. You review 1 day later, then 2 days after that, then 5 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) linking it to a picture (b) rushing the greeting (c) saying the name back (d) noticing the face
Answer key
- to keep the order
- VIBGYOR
- step 2
- thinking of your reply
- 4
- helps you keep it
- have tiny pores
- False
- 05/10/1951
- 27
- a list in a fixed order
- train
- 63
- a good timetable
- 54
- helps with names
- True
- step 4
- asking a question
- goat
- 5
- one long session only
- 12
- add more stops
- new words in a language
- Seven
- True
- lets it fade
- first letters as a word
- Eight Cats Pigs Cook
- 70
- JFMA
- never use it in sums
- TSMO
- helps you keep it
- make
- 9
- everyone forgets things
- 12
- rushing the greeting
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