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.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which branch does “holds up the leaves” go on? (a) flowers (b) roots (c) leaves (d) stem
- 2.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: door → shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table. You place a coconut by the door, an umbrella by the sofa, a key by the dining table, a tomato by the shoe rack, a whistle by the TV. Walking the route, which item do you meet fifth? (a) key (b) coconut (c) umbrella (d) tomato
- 3.🔗 Your story skips an item. What happens when you recall? (a) that item is lost (b) you get an extra item (c) it comes back alone (d) nothing changes
- 4.🎨 Which word is the hardest to picture as it is? (a) elephant (b) banana (c) honesty (d) rocket
- 5.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) your mother tongue (b) the national anthem (c) your home address (d) a carry while adding
- 6.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 4 (d) step 1
- 7.🗣️ The keyword method is best for… (a) long numbers (b) new words in a language (c) drawing maps (d) adding sums
- 8.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: short study breaks? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 9.🔢 A chunk is easiest to keep when it… (a) is very long (b) has no pattern (c) means something to you (d) changes daily
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting everything (b) only listening again (c) closed-book writing (d) re-reading the chapter
- 11.📅 You learn a Hindi poem on day 2. You review 1 day later, then 2 days after that, then 6 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 12.📅 The digits 13032015 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 13/03/2015 (b) 130/320/15 (c) 1303/20/15 (d) 13/0320/15
- 13.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: noticing the face? (a) helps with names (b) loses names
- 14.🔤 “MVEMJSUN” helps you remember the planets from the Sun. What does letter 6 (S) stand for? (a) Saturn (b) Earth (c) Uranus (d) Jupiter
- 15.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 16.🗣️ In Hindi, “chaand” means moon. Which keyword picture helps you remember it? (a) a CHANDelier on the moon (b) water in a PAN (c) a school in a SHAWL (d) a tree on a note PAD
- 17.True or false: “memory can’t improve” is a fact about memory. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) all reviews on one day (b) gaps that grow longer (c) a little every day (d) 15 minutes on 4 days
- 19.🔢 You want to remember the number 8020201274. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 802 021 0274 (b) 802 020 11274 (c) 802 020 127 (d) 802 020 1274
- 20.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 3. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 7, 9, 10 (b) days 4, 6, 10 (c) all on day 10 (d) days 5, 7, 9
- 21.True or false: “one task at a time” breaks attention. (a) True (b) False
- 22.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: looking at your phone? (a) helps with names (b) loses names
- 23.Which of these helps your memory? (a) drinking enough water (b) skipping breakfast (c) studying very hungry (d) feeling very stressed
- 24.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a dull white wall? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 25.📆 What is the first step of a revision timetable? (a) copy a friend (b) buy new pens (c) start the last day (d) write the exam dates
- 26.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: onion, coconut, vase? (a) Vines Cats Old (b) Cats Vines Old (c) Old Cats Vines (d) Cats Old Vines
- 27.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) GWS (b) SWG (c) WSG (d) WGS
- 28.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: review the picture or find a sound-alike word? (a) review the picture (b) find a sound-alike word
- 29.True or false: “won” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hearing it only once (b) saying the name back (c) linking it to a picture (d) asking how to spell it
- 31.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 1 (P) stand for? (a) Pacific (b) Indian (c) Atlantic (d) Southern
- 32.🗂️ Short-term or long-term memory: a price you just heard? (a) long-term memory (b) short-term memory
- 33.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: smelling wet earth? (a) sight (b) sound (c) touch (d) smell
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a pale, tiny dot (b) a normal-sized cup (c) a mango that sings (d) a blurry shape
- 35.🗓️ Your exam is in 10 days. You have 6 chapters and need 1 day to learn each one. The other days are for revision. How many revision days do you get?
- 36.🔗 Your link story: a giant glass chases a nest; the nest tickles a kite; the kite crashes into a bucket; the bucket sings to an inkpot. Which item is number 5 in your list? (a) glass (b) kite (c) bucket (d) inkpot
- 37.Which of these breaks attention? (a) short planned breaks (b) one task at a time (c) checking messages (d) notes while listening
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one reading is enough (b) we forget without review (c) you keep all you read (d) some kids never forget
- 39.👋 “Dessert” or “desert”: which has two s, for two helpings of sweets? (a) both (b) neither (c) desert (d) dessert
- 40.🧰 The first letters of your list already spell a word. Which is easiest? (a) chunking (b) a long story (c) an acronym (d) a mind map
Answer key
- stem
- key
- that item is lost
- honesty
- a carry while adding
- step 4
- new words in a language
- helps memory
- means something to you
- closed-book writing
- 11
- 13/03/2015
- helps with names
- Saturn
- 8
- a CHANDelier on the moon
- False
- all reviews on one day
- 802 020 1274
- days 4, 6, 10
- False
- loses names
- drinking enough water
- a weak picture
- write the exam dates
- Old Cats Vines
- SWG
- find a sound-alike word
- False
- hearing it only once
- Pacific
- short-term memory
- smell
- a mango that sings
- 4
- inkpot
- checking messages
- we forget without review
- dessert
- an acronym
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