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.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: tiny, cramped writing? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
- 2.Which of these is cramming? (a) short reviews over weeks (b) no review until the test (c) a little every day (d) old topics each Sunday
- 3.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in ABC order (b) in the same order (c) in any order (d) backwards
- 4.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: noticing the face? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cramming the last night (b) reading it once only (c) never testing yourself (d) making a picture of it
- 6.🔗 Why does a story keep the order of a list? (a) stories are short (b) it rhymes (c) it uses numbers (d) each link leads on
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a frog wearing a crown? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 9.True or false: in a mind map of “Our five senses”, “feel hot and cold” goes on the “skin” branch. (a) False (b) True
- 10.Which of these helps you keep what you learn? (a) learning without meaning (b) skipping revision (c) studying when sleepy (d) testing yourself
- 11.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 2
- 12.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: choose a place you know or fix stops in order? (a) choose a place you know (b) fix stops in order
- 13.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the planets from the Sun, in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (a) VEMJSUNM (b) NUSJMEVM (c) MVEMJSUN (d) VMEMJSUN
- 14.🔢 A 16-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 15.😴 You often can’t sleep or feel unwell. What should you do? (a) study even more (b) buy memory pills (c) tell a parent or doctor (d) ignore it
- 16.📆 Good or poor revision timetable: no spare days? (a) a poor timetable (b) a good timetable
- 17.Which of these makes a poor revision timetable? (a) old topics come back (b) one subject all week (c) mixes subjects each day (d) starts weeks early
- 18.🔗 In the story method, items are joined by… (a) plain lists (b) numbers (c) funny actions (d) colours only
- 19.🧠 Which step of memory is this: keep it in memory? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
- 20.True or false: “using it in a sum” helps you keep what you learn. (a) False (b) True
- 21.📅 The digits 04031956 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 04/0319/56 (b) 0403/19/56 (c) 04/03/1956 (d) 040/319/56
- 22.👋 You meet a new classmate called Prithvi. The name means “earth”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) with a gold medal (b) holding a pink lotus (c) holding the Earth (d) floating up in the sky
- 23.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: link it to the next item? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 4 (d) step 2
- 24.🗺️ What goes in the centre of a mind map? (a) a small detail (b) your name (c) the main topic (d) the date
- 25.📝 A list to learn, in order: tiger, jeep, spoon, anchor, candle. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) JTSAC (b) JSACT (c) CASJT (d) TJSAC
- 26.True or false: “chatting in class” helps attention. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a number you just heard (b) your best friend’s name (c) the last line you read (d) a new word for a minute
- 28.📉 What does the forgetting curve show? (a) we never forget (b) we forget fast at first (c) memory is fixed (d) forgetting starts late
- 29.True or false: “directions told just now” is kept in long-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 30.📉 Does this help you keep it, or let it fade: studying when sleepy? (a) helps you keep it (b) lets it fade
- 31.Which of these makes a poor revision timetable? (a) mixes subjects each day (b) sleep time kept (c) only easy subjects (d) has short breaks
- 32.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 5. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 12, 15, 17 (b) days 9, 13, 17 (c) all on day 17 (d) days 7, 10, 17
- 33.Which memory picture uses the sense of taste? (a) tasting bitter karela (b) stroking soft fur (c) hearing a drum boom (d) seeing a glowing star
- 34.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place a guava by the banyan tree, a frog by the park gate, an urn by the fruit cart, a parrot by the swing, a rope by the post box. What did you place by the post box? (a) guava (b) urn (c) rope (d) frog
- 35.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: hearing a dog bark? (a) touch (b) sight (c) sound (d) smell
- 36.📅 You learn 12 new spellings on day 3. You review 2 days later, then 3 days after that, then 7 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 37.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or walk the route to recall? (a) put pictures at stops (b) walk the route to recall
- 38.🔗 To recall your list, you… (a) guess (b) start from nowhere (c) replay the story (d) read a new list
- 39.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Rani Silly Lazy Fly (b) Fly Lazy Silly Rani (c) Silly Lazy Fly Rani (d) Silly Rani Lazy Fly
- 40.📅 The digits 15021996 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 15/02/1996 (b) 150/219/96 (c) 1502/19/96 (d) 15/0219/96
Answer key
- a poor mind map
- no review until the test
- in the same order
- helps with names
- making a picture of it
- each link leads on
- 4
- a strong picture
- True
- testing yourself
- step 1
- choose a place you know
- MVEMJSUN
- 4
- tell a parent or doctor
- a poor timetable
- one subject all week
- funny actions
- step 2
- True
- 04/03/1956
- holding the Earth
- step 2
- the main topic
- TJSAC
- False
- your best friend’s name
- we forget fast at first
- False
- lets it fade
- only easy subjects
- days 7, 10, 17
- tasting bitter karela
- rope
- sound
- 15
- put pictures at stops
- replay the story
- Rani Silly Lazy Fly
- 15/02/1996
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