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 is the odd one out? (a) writing it down later (b) not asking again (c) hearing it only once (d) looking at your phone
- 2.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember this list, in order: rope, kite, spoon? (a) Kind Silly Rani (b) Rani Kind Silly (c) Silly Kind Rani (d) Kind Rani Silly
- 3.🔢 Use the pattern of the 9 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 9 times table? (a) 53 (b) 54 (c) 56 (d) 55
- 4.👀 Does this help attention or break it: three tasks at once? (a) helps attention (b) breaks attention
- 5.📅 You learn 12 new spellings on day 1. You review 2 days later, then 3 days after that, then 7 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 6.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) a price you just heard (b) your mother tongue (c) your birthday (d) how to ride a bicycle
- 7.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: keep linking in order or link it to the next item? (a) keep linking in order (b) link it to the next item
- 8.📚 You must revise 10 chapters, 2 chapters a day. How many days will it take?
- 9.🔤 After making an acronym, what else must you learn? (a) its spelling backwards (b) its colour (c) what each letter means (d) nothing else
- 10.🎨 Which word is the hardest to picture as it is? (a) banana (b) elephant (c) rocket (d) honesty
- 11.📅 You learn 12 new spellings on day 5. You review 2 days later, then 3 days after that, then 6 days after that. On which day is your third review?
- 12.👋 Helps you keep a new name, or makes you lose it: thinking of your reply? (a) loses names (b) helps with names
- 13.Which of these makes a weak memory picture? (a) a laughing tiffin box (b) a pale, tiny dot (c) a pencil that dances (d) a bright red flying cow
- 14.📅 The digits 19041999 are a date: day, month, year. Which chunking shows the date? (a) 19/0419/99 (b) 19/04/1999 (c) 190/419/99 (d) 1904/19/99
- 15.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or choose a place you know? (a) walk the route to recall (b) choose a place you know
- 16.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) right (c) true (d) known
- 17.True or false: “copy it 50 times blindly” is a weak way to learn a formula. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🗣️ In the keyword method, which comes first: hear the new word or find a sound-alike word? (a) hear the new word (b) find a sound-alike word
- 19.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: fix stops in order or walk the route to recall? (a) fix stops in order (b) walk the route to recall
- 20.True or false: “attention comes first” is a myth about memory. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🔢 Use the pattern of the 9 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 9 times table? (a) 73 (b) 74 (c) 72 (d) 71
- 22.🔢 You want to remember the number 2805427274. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 280 542 7274 (b) 280 547 274 (c) 280 452 7274 (d) 280 054 27274
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a bus made of ice (b) a blurry shape (c) the word in small print (d) a dull white wall
- 24.🧠 Fact or myth: “testing yourself helps”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 25.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1 (d) step 4
- 26.🗣️ Which step of the keyword method is this: find a sound-alike word? (a) step 4 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 1
- 27.🗓️ 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?
- 28.🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a pale, tiny dot? (a) a weak picture (b) a strong picture
- 29.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) one reading is enough (b) cramming lasts for years (c) you keep all you read (d) we forget without review
- 30.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 2. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 8, 10, 11 (b) all on day 11 (c) days 5, 8, 11 (d) days 3, 5, 11
- 31.🔢 What is chunking? (a) saying it backwards (b) reading very fast (c) splitting into groups (d) writing it twice
- 32.✏️ Which first-letter sentence helps you remember the parts of a plant, bottom to top (root, stem, leaf, flower)? (a) Fly Lazy Seven Red (b) Seven Lazy Fly Red (c) Seven Red Lazy Fly (d) Red Seven Lazy Fly
- 33.True or false: VIBGYOR for the colours of the rainbow — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🧪 In teach-back, which comes first: explain it simply or check what you missed? (a) explain it simply (b) check what you missed
- 35.🔗 Your link story: a giant tent rolls into an ant; the ant bounces onto a rose; the rose sits on an umbrella; the umbrella falls into a ladder. Which item comes right before the ant? (a) rose (b) tent (c) ant (d) ladder
- 36.🔤 VIBGYOR helps you remember… (a) the months (b) the planets (c) the rainbow colours (d) the oceans
- 37.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) the last line you read (b) your birthday (c) your mother tongue (d) your home address
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) skip what letters mean (b) use it in a few sums (c) mix up the letters (d) copy it 50 times blindly
- 39.True or false: seeing a 12-digit number as three groups of 4 — that is chunking. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🗓️ What does spaced repetition mean? (a) reviewing once (b) never reviewing (c) reading it 10 times now (d) reviewing with gaps
Answer key
- writing it down later
- Rani Kind Silly
- 54
- breaks attention
- 13
- a price you just heard
- link it to the next item
- 5
- what each letter means
- honesty
- 16
- loses names
- a pale, tiny dot
- 19/04/1999
- choose a place you know
- true
- True
- hear the new word
- fix stops in order
- False
- 72
- 280 542 7274
- a bus made of ice
- a fact
- step 1
- step 2
- 4
- a weak picture
- we forget without review
- days 3, 5, 11
- splitting into groups
- Red Seven Lazy Fly
- False
- explain it simply
- tent
- the rainbow colours
- the last line you read
- use it in a few sums
- True
- reviewing with gaps
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