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 does a story keep the order of a list? (a) each link leads on (b) it rhymes (c) it uses numbers (d) stories are short
- 2.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: fix stops in order? (a) step 4 (b) step 2 (c) step 1 (d) step 3
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for saffron, white, green is “___ Wise Goats”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Inside (b) Red (c) Yum (d) Silly
- 4.👀 Does this help attention or break it: a quiet place to study? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 5.True or false: “using it in a sentence” makes you lose a new name. (a) True (b) False
- 6.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: never testing yourself? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) practice improves memory (b) we forget without review (c) good memory is just luck (d) everyone forgets things
- 8.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: lemon, owl, rose? (a) Only Runs Lions (b) Runs Only Lions (c) Lions Only Runs (d) Only Lions Runs
- 9.🗣️ When should you review a new keyword picture? (a) never again (b) after a year (c) later today and tomorrow (d) only in the exam
- 10.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) MVEMJSUN (b) VMEMJSUN (c) NUSJMEVM (d) VEMJSUNM
- 11.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 6. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 13, 17, 19 (b) all on day 19 (c) days 8, 12, 19 (d) days 10, 14, 18
- 12.😴 You go to bed at 9:00 PM and wake up at 5:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
- 13.True or false: “only easy subjects” makes a poor revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🗣️ In Hindi, “mez” means table. Which keyword picture helps you remember it? (a) I AM eating a mango (b) I NEED sleep (c) a cat paying a BILL (d) a MAZE on a table
- 15.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a ball by the teacher’s desk, a goat by the notice board, a watch by the blackboard, an umbrella by the stairs, an inkpot by the classroom door. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) inkpot (b) ball (c) umbrella (d) goat
- 16.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the rainbow, in order: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red? (a) ROYGBIV (b) IBGYORV (c) VIBGYOR (d) IVBGYOR
- 17.🃏 You test yourself on 30 spellings and get 20 right. How many go back in the “again” pile?
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a giant pink elephant (b) a mango that sings (c) a blurry shape (d) a bus made of ice
- 19.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) chunking (c) an acronym (d) a rhyme
- 20.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north, in order: north, east, south, west? (a) WSEN (b) NESW (c) ENSW (d) ESWN
- 21.🗓️ Your exam is in 18 days. You have 5 chapters and need 3 days to learn each one. The other days are for revision. How many revision days do you get?
- 22.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) reviewing the next day (b) explaining to a friend (c) making a picture of it (d) cramming the last night
- 23.True or false: “we forget without review” is a fact about memory. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🧠 Which step of memory is this: notice it? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
- 25.True or false: SWG for the colours of the Indian flag — that is an acronym. (a) True (b) False
- 26.📝 A list to learn, in order: watch, net, coconut, umbrella. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) NWCU (b) UCNW (c) NCUW (d) WNCU
- 27.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: link it to the next item or replay the story? (a) link it to the next item (b) replay the story
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting everything (b) closed-book writing (c) quizzing with cards (d) blank-page recall
- 29.🧪 Active recall or passive review: staring at the page? (a) passive review (b) active recall
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a desk full of toys (b) games open on screen (c) daydreaming in class (d) a clear, tidy desk
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) the word in small print (b) a plain grey box (c) a sock that smells awful (d) a blurry shape
- 32.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library → playground. You place an umbrella by the blackboard, a radio by the classroom door, a tent by the playground, an apple by the teacher’s desk, a goat by the library. Where did you place the tent? (a) teacher’s desk (b) classroom door (c) blackboard (d) playground
- 33.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: replay the story? (a) step 1 (b) step 4 (c) step 2 (d) step 3
- 34.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2 (d) step 4
- 35.True or false: “notes while listening” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🎵 Which word does “done” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) sun (c) night (d) king
- 37.📐 Smart or weak way to learn a formula: say it aloud? (a) a smart way (b) a weak way
- 38.👋 You pictured a new friend in soft moonlight. Which name does the picture help you recall? (a) Shanti (b) Kiran (c) Surya (d) Chandni
- 39.🔗 Your link story: a giant urn crashes into a ball; the ball tickles an ant; the ant sits on a violin; the violin falls into a flute. Which item comes right after the urn? (a) flute (b) ball (c) violin (d) ant
- 40.🗂️ How do you move something into long-term memory? (a) read it once (b) review and use it often (c) hear it once (d) hope for the best
Answer key
- each link leads on
- step 2
- Silly
- helps attention
- False
- lets it fade
- good memory is just luck
- Lions Only Runs
- later today and tomorrow
- MVEMJSUN
- days 8, 12, 19
- 8
- True
- a MAZE on a table
- goat
- VIBGYOR
- 10
- a blurry shape
- a first-letter sentence
- NESW
- 3
- cramming the last night
- True
- step 1
- True
- WNCU
- link it to the next item
- highlighting everything
- passive review
- a clear, tidy desk
- a sock that smells awful
- playground
- step 4
- step 4
- True
- sun
- a smart way
- Chandni
- ball
- review and use it often
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