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.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 8, the tens digit is 8 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 8. What is 9 × 8?
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a formula card (b) use it in a few sums (c) know what each letter is (d) read it once
- 3.🗂️ How many things can short-term memory hold at once? (a) hundreds (b) only a few (c) a whole book (d) no limit
- 4.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a lamp by the library, a shoe by the classroom door, an apple by the teacher’s desk, a net by the blackboard, a ladder by the stairs. What did you place by the teacher’s desk? (a) ladder (b) apple (c) net (d) shoe
- 5.👀 Does this help attention or break it: phone in another room? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 6.🗺️ After drawing a mind map, how do you test yourself? (a) redraw it from memory (b) throw it away (c) frame it (d) colour it again
- 7.True or false: “block” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🔗 Your link story: a giant urn bounces onto a sock; the sock jumps over a candle; the candle pulls a guava; the guava tickles a glass. Which item comes right after the sock? (a) guava (b) candle (c) sock (d) urn
- 9.🔤 “SWG” helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom. What does letter 1 (S) stand for? (a) green (b) white (c) saffron
- 10.🗓️ Spaced practice or cramming: review on days 1, 3, 7? (a) cramming (b) spaced practice
- 11.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) what each letter means (b) its spelling backwards (c) nothing else (d) its colour
- 12.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: tasting raw mango? (a) taste (b) sight (c) smell (d) sound
- 13.Which memory picture uses the sense of taste? (a) hearing a drum boom (b) stroking soft fur (c) tasting raw mango (d) seeing a red kite fly
- 14.True or false: “fun” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🧠 Which step of memory is this: recall it? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
- 16.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: hearing a whistle? (a) taste (b) sight (c) touch (d) sound
- 17.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the steps of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)? (a) Cats Play Crazy Every (b) Cats Every Play Crazy (c) Crazy Play Cats Every (d) Every Cats Play Crazy
- 18.Which of these makes a good mind map? (a) copying a whole page (b) a colour for each branch (c) long sentences (d) tiny, cramped writing
- 19.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Every Seven Wet Nine (b) Every Nine Seven Wet (c) Wet Seven Every Nine (d) Nine Every Seven Wet
- 20.✏️ What is a first-letter sentence? (a) a rhyme about cats (b) a list of numbers (c) initials match the list (d) a very long word
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for cat, mirror, igloo, guava is “___ Mice Ink Green”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Every (b) Inside (c) Crazy (d) Grab
- 22.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) clock (d) bell
- 23.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) skipping revision (b) reviewing the next day (c) reviewing after a week (d) testing yourself
- 24.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or replay the story? (a) keep linking in order (b) replay the story
- 25.🗂️ You are adding 48 + 37 and hold the carry 1 in your head. Which memory is that? (a) long-term memory (b) muscle memory (c) no memory (d) short-term memory
- 26.Which of these helps attention? (a) scrolling while reading (b) a goal for each session (c) three tasks at once (d) studying half-asleep
- 27.True or false: “the national anthem” is kept in long-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🗣️ Which keyword picture is stronger? (a) just the word (b) a plain, still one (c) no picture at all (d) a funny, moving one
- 29.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) GWS (c) WGS (d) SWG
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) some kids never forget (b) good memory is just luck (c) pills give super memory (d) sleep helps you learn
- 31.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) NUSJMEVM (b) MVEMJSUN (c) VMEMJSUN (d) VEMJSUNM
- 32.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: skipping breakfast? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copy it 50 times blindly (b) cram it the last night (c) mix up the letters (d) test yourself weekly
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a clear, tidy desk (b) TV on while studying (c) phone in another room (d) short planned breaks
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 506121182. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 506 112 1182 (b) 061 211 82 (c) 506 121 182 (d) 501 621 182
- 36.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: replay the story? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 4 (d) step 2
- 37.🧠 Fact or myth: “pills give super memory”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 38.Which of these breaks attention? (a) phone in another room (b) a quiet place to study (c) studying half-asleep (d) a clear, tidy desk
- 39.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 2, the tens digit is 2 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 2. What is 9 × 2?
- 40.📉 What happens to forgetting each time you review? (a) it speeds up (b) nothing changes (c) it slows down (d) you forget more
Answer key
- 72
- read it once
- only a few
- apple
- helps attention
- redraw it from memory
- False
- candle
- saffron
- spaced practice
- what each letter means
- taste
- tasting raw mango
- False
- step 3
- sound
- Every Cats Play Crazy
- a colour for each branch
- Nine Every Seven Wet
- initials match the list
- Crazy
- cake
- skipping revision
- keep linking in order
- short-term memory
- a goal for each session
- True
- a funny, moving one
- SWG
- sleep helps you learn
- MVEMJSUN
- hurts memory
- test yourself weekly
- TV on while studying
- 506 121 182
- step 4
- a myth
- studying half-asleep
- 18
- it slows down
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