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.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: smelling jasmine? (a) sight (b) touch (c) smell (d) taste
- 2.👋 You pictured a new friend in soft moonlight. Which name does the picture help you recall? (a) Kamal (b) Heera (c) Chandni (d) Megha
- 3.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place an anchor by the fruit cart, a lamp by the park gate, a duck by the post box, a flute by the banyan tree, a shoe by the swing. What did you place by the post box? (a) flute (b) lamp (c) duck (d) anchor
- 4.🔢 Chunking works for… (a) numbers and letter lists (b) only pictures (c) nothing at all (d) only numbers
- 5.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen → bed. You place a coconut by the bed, a kettle by the dining table, a jeep by the kitchen, a flute by the sofa, a goat by the TV. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) goat (b) jeep (c) flute (d) coconut
- 6.True or false: “a carry while adding” is held in short-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 7.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: fruit and vegetables? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) noticing the face (b) looking at your phone (c) saying the name back (d) writing it down later
- 9.🔢 You want to remember the number 214056908. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 210 569 08 (b) 214 056 908 (c) 214 005 6908 (d) 214 506 908
- 10.Which of these helps your memory? (a) a full night’s sleep (b) feeling very stressed (c) staying up very late (d) screens till midnight
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) the word in small print (b) a kite as big as a house (c) a pencil that dances (d) a frog wearing a crown
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) knock (b) tea (c) shock (d) wake
- 13.🔢 Instead of holding 11 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 14.Which of these lets what you learn fade? (a) cramming the last night (b) using it in a sum (c) explaining to a friend (d) making a picture of it
- 15.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is true”? (a) an acronym (b) chunking (c) a first-letter sentence (d) a rhyme
- 16.📉 When is the best time for the first review of today’s lesson? (a) next month (b) never (c) the exam night (d) today or tomorrow
- 17.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Six sevens, forty-two — a fact that’s always true”? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) a rhyme (c) an acronym (d) chunking
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a quiet place to study (b) short planned breaks (c) games open on screen (d) phone in another room
- 19.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the continents, biggest first, in order: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia? (a) ANSAEAA (b) AANSAAE (c) AANSAEA (d) AEASNAA
- 20.🔗 Your link story: a giant jeep pulls a flute; the flute falls into an igloo; the igloo tickles a shoe; the shoe bounces onto an owl. Which item comes right before the igloo? (a) owl (b) jeep (c) igloo (d) flute
- 21.True or false: “screens till midnight” helps your memory. (a) False (b) True
- 22.📅 The digits 05012021 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 050/120/21 (b) 05/0120/21 (c) 05/01/2021 (d) 0501/20/21
- 23.🧪 Who can you teach back to? (a) anyone, even a toy (b) nobody (c) only adults (d) only a teacher
- 24.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: copying a whole page? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
- 25.🔢 A 8-digit number is split into chunks of 4 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 26.🔗 Which step of the story method is this: keep linking in order? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) how to swim (b) the last line you read (c) a price you just heard (d) a number you just heard
- 28.True or false: reading 9876543210 as 987 654 3210 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 29.👋 What is the best first step when you hear a new name? (a) change the topic (b) ask for their phone (c) nod and forget (d) say it back: “Hi, Riya!”
- 30.👋 You meet a new classmate called Chandni. The name means “moonlight”. Which picture helps you link the name to the face? (a) with a shiny diamond (b) with a gold medal (c) in a bright ray of light (d) in soft moonlight
- 31.Which of these makes a weak memory picture? (a) a pencil that dances (b) a sock that smells awful (c) a frog wearing a crown (d) a normal-sized cup
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare days (b) starts weeks early (c) has short breaks (d) self-tests every week
- 33.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) WSG (b) GWS (c) WGS (d) SWG
- 34.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) sun (c) night (d) bell
- 35.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the steps of the water cycle, in order: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection? (a) ECPC (b) ECCP (c) CEPC (d) CPCE
- 36.📉 When do we forget the most of something new? (a) never (b) after ten years (c) only in exams (d) in the first day or two
- 37.True or false: “a price you just heard” is held in short-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 38.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: a calm, happy mind? (a) hurts memory (b) helps memory
- 39.🔢 Instead of holding 8 separate digits, you hold them as 3 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 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
- smell
- Chandni
- duck
- numbers and letter lists
- flute
- True
- helps memory
- looking at your phone
- 214 056 908
- a full night’s sleep
- the word in small print
- wake
- 8
- cramming the last night
- a rhyme
- today or tomorrow
- a rhyme
- games open on screen
- AANSAEA
- flute
- False
- 05/01/2021
- anyone, even a toy
- a poor mind map
- 2
- step 3
- how to swim
- True
- say it back: “Hi, Riya!”
- in soft moonlight
- a normal-sized cup
- no spare days
- SWG
- night
- ECPC
- in the first day or two
- True
- helps memory
- 5
- review and use it often
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