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 step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 1 (b) step 3 (c) step 4 (d) step 2
- 2.🎵 Which word does “wing” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) king (c) rain (d) clock
- 3.🧪 Active recall or passive review: re-reading the chapter? (a) passive review (b) active recall
- 4.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the first four months, in order: January, February, March, April? (a) AMFJ (b) FJMA (c) FMAJ (d) JFMA
- 5.⏱️ You study in 4 blocks of 30 minutes, with a 10-minute break between blocks. How many minutes is that in all?
- 6.True or false: “one task at a time” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🔢 Instead of holding 12 separate digits, you hold them as 4 chunks. How many fewer things do you hold in mind?
- 8.🎨 Which sense does this memory picture use: watching fireworks? (a) smell (b) sound (c) taste (d) sight
- 9.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, pupa, adult)? (a) Eat Love Pigs Aunty (b) Love Pigs Aunty Eat (c) Love Eat Pigs Aunty (d) Aunty Pigs Love Eat
- 10.🧠 Fact or myth: “we forget without review”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
- 11.👀 Does this help attention or break it: one task at a time? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 12.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: keep it in memory or recall it? (a) keep it in memory (b) recall it
- 13.🔢 You want to remember the number 9084329544. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 908 432 954 (b) 908 432 9454 (c) 908 432 95544 (d) 908 432 9544
- 14.True or false: “never testing yourself” lets what you learn fade. (a) False (b) True
- 15.👀 Your phone buzzes while you study. What is best? (a) turn the sound up (b) keep it in your hand (c) put it in another room (d) reply at once
- 16.🔗 Your link story: a giant whistle jumps over a goat; the goat falls into a flute; the flute pulls a kettle; the kettle sits on a duck. Which item is number 4 in your list? (a) flute (b) whistle (c) kettle (d) duck
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) good memory is just luck (b) cramming lasts for years (c) pills give super memory (d) practice improves memory
- 18.True or false: “three tasks at once” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 19.Which of these is spaced practice? (a) all reviews on one day (b) one huge session (c) learning it all at once (d) old topics each Sunday
- 20.📚 You must revise 10 chapters, 2 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 21.Which of these is cramming? (a) short reviews over weeks (b) a little every day (c) 15 minutes on 4 days (d) one huge session
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 347012275. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 347 012 27 (b) 347 701 2275 (c) 437 012 275 (d) 347 012 275
- 23.🃏 Round 1: you test yourself on 16 dates and get 7 right. Round 2: you retest only the wrong ones and get 2 of them right. How many are still wrong?
- 24.🗣️ 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
- 25.✏️ Which first-letter sentence is easier to keep? (a) a dull, plain one (b) a silly, funny one (c) one with no picture (d) a very long one
- 26.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow? (a) a first-letter sentence (b) an acronym (c) a rhyme (d) chunking
- 27.True or false: “eyes on the speaker” helps attention. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🧠 Fact or myth: “good memory is just luck”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 29.🗺️ Mind map of “Parts of a plant”: which detail goes on the “flowers” branch? (a) grow under the ground (b) carries water upward (c) turn into fruit (d) take in water from soil
- 30.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: picture the first item or replay the story? (a) picture the first item (b) replay the story
- 31.😴 You go to bed at 10:00 PM and wake up at 7:00 AM. How many hours of sleep is that?
- 32.📅 The digits 13121957 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 13/1219/57 (b) 1312/19/57 (c) 13/12/1957 (d) 131/219/57
- 33.True or false: “pills give super memory” is a myth about memory. (a) False (b) True
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reviewing after a week (b) reviewing the next day (c) explaining to a friend (d) one long session only
- 35.Which of these makes a poor mind map? (a) topic in the centre (b) a colour for each branch (c) one key word per branch (d) ideas with no links
- 36.🔢 A 6-digit number is split into chunks of 3 digits each. How many chunks is that?
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) studying very hungry (b) a calm, happy mind (c) an all-night cram (d) sitting still all day
- 38.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the rhyme method (b) the method of loci (c) the pomodoro (d) chunking
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lines that link ideas (b) topic in the centre (c) small doodles (d) tiny, cramped writing
- 40.📅 The digits 24081961 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 24/08/1961 (b) 2408/19/61 (c) 24/0819/61 (d) 240/819/61
Answer key
- step 4
- king
- passive review
- JFMA
- 150
- True
- 8
- sight
- Eat Love Pigs Aunty
- a fact
- helps attention
- keep it in memory
- 908 432 9544
- True
- put it in another room
- kettle
- practice improves memory
- False
- old topics each Sunday
- 5
- one huge session
- 347 012 275
- 7
- step 2
- a silly, funny one
- an acronym
- True
- a myth
- turn into fruit
- picture the first item
- 9
- 13/12/1957
- True
- one long session only
- ideas with no links
- 2
- a calm, happy mind
- the method of loci
- tiny, cramped writing
- 24/08/1961
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