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.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) your best friend’s name (b) your home address (c) your birthday (d) a price you just heard
- 3.🏰 Which place makes the best memory palace? (a) one you never saw (b) a random new city (c) one you know very well (d) a blank wall
- 4.True or false: PAISA for the oceans, biggest first — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 5.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for root, stem, leaf, flower is “Red Sing Lions ___”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Frogs (b) Very (c) Crazy (d) Goats
- 6.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) NESW (c) ESWN (d) ENSW
- 7.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: testing yourself? (a) lets it fade (b) helps you keep it
- 8.👀 The teacher is explaining a new sum. Where should your eyes be? (a) on your phone (b) out of the window (c) on the teacher and board (d) on your friend
- 9.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) night (c) bell (d) sun
- 10.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: sleep time kept? (a) a good timetable (b) a poor timetable
- 11.📆 Where should the hard topics go? (a) after the exam (b) the last night (c) nowhere (d) earlier, with more time
- 12.👀 Which helps you notice more in a lesson? (a) doodling cartoons (b) looking at the clock (c) chatting quietly (d) taking short notes
- 13.👋 You pictured a new friend covered in blue paint. Which name does the picture help you recall? (a) Akash (b) Neel (c) Megha (d) Kiran
- 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) blank-page recall (b) closed-book writing (c) explaining it aloud (d) staring at the page
- 15.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: picture the first item? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 4
- 16.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which branch does “hold the plant firm” go on? (a) roots (b) flowers (c) stem (d) leaves
- 17.True or false: “the national anthem” is held in short-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a silly, funny one (b) a dull, plain one (c) a very long one (d) one with no picture
- 19.⏱️ You study in 4 blocks of 30 minutes, with a 10-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 20.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) we forget without review (b) sleep helps you learn (c) attention comes first (d) memory can’t improve
- 21.True or false: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true” — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 22.📝 A list to learn, in order: mango, frog, bucket, ice cream, duck. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) FBIDM (b) DIBFM (c) FMBID (d) MFBID
- 23.🧠 Which step of memory is this: pay attention? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a little every day (b) 4 hours the night before (c) 15 minutes on 4 days (d) review on days 1, 3, 7
- 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: monkey, apple, igloo, ball, ladder. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) MAIBL (b) LBIAM (c) AIBLM (d) AMIBL
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) an OTP you just got (b) your home address (c) how to ride a bicycle (d) your birthday
- 27.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a far-off still tree? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 28.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: bus stop → post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate. You place a frog by the banyan tree, a needle by the park gate, a kite by the bus stop, a duck by the fruit cart, a bucket by the post box. What did you place by the bus stop? (a) needle (b) frog (c) kite (d) bucket
- 29.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: linking to what you know? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 30.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: review the picture? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 4 (d) step 1
- 31.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: learning without meaning? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 32.True or false: “only listening again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail is on a different branch from the other three? (a) hold the plant firm (b) take in water from soil (c) have tiny pores (d) grow under the ground
- 34.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: keep linking in order? (a) step 4 (b) step 1 (c) step 2 (d) step 3
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) topic in the centre (b) details on small twigs (c) lines that link ideas (d) topic in a corner
- 36.True or false: “lines that link ideas” makes a good mind map. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🃏 You test yourself on 14 spellings and get 12 right. How many go back in the “again” pile?
- 38.Which of these is a weak way to learn a formula? (a) cram it the last night (b) know what each letter is (c) say it aloud (d) test yourself weekly
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) plane (b) free (c) make (d) spell
- 40.Which of these is bad for your memory? (a) a healthy breakfast (b) drinking enough water (c) staying up very late (d) a full night’s sleep
Answer key
- 5
- a price you just heard
- one you know very well
- False
- Frogs
- NESW
- helps you keep it
- on the teacher and board
- cake
- a good timetable
- earlier, with more time
- taking short notes
- Neel
- staring at the page
- step 1
- roots
- False
- a silly, funny one
- 150
- memory can’t improve
- False
- MFBID
- step 1
- 4 hours the night before
- MAIBL
- an OTP you just got
- a weak picture
- kite
- helps you keep it
- step 4
- lets it fade
- False
- have tiny pores
- step 3
- topic in a corner
- True
- 2
- cram it the last night
- plane
- staying up very late
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