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 do acronyms help memory? (a) they always rhyme (b) one word holds a list (c) they are longer (d) they need no learning
- 2.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 2. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 3, 5, 10 (b) days 7, 9, 10 (c) days 6, 10, 14 (d) all on day 10
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a little every day (b) 4 hours the night before (c) all reviews on one day (d) no review until the test
- 4.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 3, the tens digit is 3 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 3. What is 9 × 3?
- 5.True or false: “skipping revision” helps you keep what you learn. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🗣️ Your keyword picture is “a fish lighting a MATCH”. Which word does it help you remember? (a) phool (b) bandar (c) machhli (d) aam
- 7.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a carry while adding? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 8.🔤 “VIBGYOR” helps you remember the colours of the rainbow. What does letter 3 (B) stand for? (a) green (b) indigo (c) blue (d) violet
- 9.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 1 (b) step 2 (c) step 4 (d) step 3
- 10.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: skipping revision? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 11.🎨 Which makes a memory picture stronger? (a) make it big and funny (b) make it grey (c) make it small and plain (d) keep it still
- 12.True or false: “learning without meaning” helps you keep what you learn. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: picture the first item? (a) step 4 (b) step 1 (c) step 2 (d) step 3
- 14.True or false: “Silly White Goats” for saffron, white, green — that is an acronym. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a carry while adding (b) a number you just heard (c) a price you just heard (d) how to ride a bicycle
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) games open on screen (b) a quiet place to study (c) asking a question (d) phone in another room
- 17.True or false: “ideas with no links” makes a good mind map. (a) True (b) False
- 18.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the four directions, clockwise from north (north, east, south, west)? (a) Eat Seven Wet Neat (b) Neat Eat Seven Wet (c) Eat Neat Seven Wet (d) Wet Seven Eat Neat
- 19.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) smell (b) tell (c) sing (d) well
- 20.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) nothing else (c) what each letter means (d) its colour
- 21.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: testing yourself? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 22.🗺️ Mind map of “Our five senses”: which detail goes on the “eyes” branch? (a) hear a bell (b) taste salty (c) smell food (d) see colours
- 23.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 24.True or false: “a goal for each session” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the first four months (January, February, March, April)? (a) Jolly Funny Mice All (b) All Mice Funny Jolly (c) Funny Jolly Mice All (d) Funny Mice All Jolly
- 26.Which of these helps attention? (a) checking messages (b) one task at a time (c) studying half-asleep (d) TV on while studying
- 27.Which of these makes a poor revision timetable? (a) spare days for doubts (b) starts the night before (c) has short breaks (d) mixes subjects each day
- 28.🧪 Why does testing yourself help memory? (a) it is faster to read (b) tests are just fun (c) it needs no effort (d) recalling makes it stick
- 29.🎨 Which word is the hardest to picture as it is? (a) elephant (b) banana (c) honesty (d) rocket
- 30.✏️ When is a first-letter sentence better than an acronym? (a) there is no list (b) the list is short (c) you like spelling (d) the letters make no word
- 31.🗺️ Why use one key word on each branch? (a) quick to see and recall (b) it looks empty (c) it saves ink (d) no reason
- 32.True or false: “sitting still all day” helps your memory. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) twice (b) more (c) again (d) fast
- 34.Which of these is kept in long-term memory? (a) how to ride a bicycle (b) the last line you read (c) a price you just heard (d) a number you just heard
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) revising before bed (b) a calm, happy mind (c) short study breaks (d) staying up very late
- 36.📐 Area of a rectangle = length × breadth. What helps you keep it? (a) copy it blindly (b) picture a tiled floor (c) read it once (d) skip it
- 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) fast (b) long (c) cold (d) free
- 38.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: replay the story? (a) step 4 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 2
- 39.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail goes on the “roots” branch? (a) turn into fruit (b) attract bees (c) carries water upward (d) take in water from soil
- 40.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VMEMJSUN (b) NUSJMEVM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VEMJSUNM
Answer key
- one word holds a list
- days 3, 5, 10
- a little every day
- 27
- False
- machhli
- short-term memory
- blue
- step 2
- lets it fade
- make it big and funny
- False
- step 1
- False
- how to ride a bicycle
- games open on screen
- False
- Neat Eat Seven Wet
- sing
- what each letter means
- helps you keep it
- see colours
- chunking
- False
- Jolly Funny Mice All
- one task at a time
- starts the night before
- recalling makes it stick
- honesty
- the letters make no word
- quick to see and recall
- False
- more
- how to ride a bicycle
- staying up very late
- picture a tiled floor
- free
- step 4
- take in water from soil
- MVEMJSUN
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