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) checking messages (b) studying half-asleep (c) chatting in class (d) one task at a time
- 2.👀 Does this help attention or break it: daydreaming in class? (a) breaks attention (b) helps attention
- 3.📝 A list to learn, in order: sock, nest, urn, duck. Which acronym helps you remember it? (a) DUNS (b) SNUD (c) NSUD (d) NUDS
- 4.Which of these helps attention? (a) chatting in class (b) one task at a time (c) daydreaming in class (d) TV on while studying
- 5.🏰 You have 10 items but your route has only 5 stops. What helps? (a) use no route (b) skip 5 items (c) put all at one stop (d) add more stops
- 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering old questions (b) closed-book writing (c) only listening again (d) teaching your sibling
- 7.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a drum by the library, a watch by the blackboard, an onion by the stairs, a monkey by the teacher’s desk, a rope by the classroom door. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) monkey (b) onion (c) rope (d) drum
- 8.True or false: “short study breaks” is bad for your memory. (a) False (b) True
- 9.True or false: “a price you just heard” is kept in long-term memory. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: put pictures at stops? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2 (d) step 4
- 11.🎵 Which word does “spell” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) clock (d) night
- 12.🧪 Active recall or passive review: highlighting everything? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 13.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) free (c) long (d) fast
- 14.🧪 Active recall or passive review: watching it again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
- 15.🧰 Which kind of mnemonic is this: “Nani Eats Sweet Watermelon” for north, east, south, west? (a) a rhyme (b) an acronym (c) a first-letter sentence (d) chunking
- 16.True or false: “your best friend’s name” is kept in long-term memory. (a) True (b) False
- 17.Which of these makes a weak memory picture? (a) a pencil that dances (b) a giant pink elephant (c) a bus made of ice (d) a dull white wall
- 18.✏️ Your first-letter sentence for drum, violin, ant, key, flute is “___ Vines Ants Kites Frogs”. Which word fills the gap? (a) Kites (b) Dad (c) Seven (d) Play
- 19.🔗 In the story method, which comes first: picture the first item or link it to the next item? (a) picture the first item (b) link it to the next item
- 20.🗓️ You learn a new topic on day 1. Which review plan has gaps that grow longer each time? (a) days 3, 7, 14 (b) days 5, 9, 13 (c) days 8, 12, 14 (d) all on day 14
- 21.✏️ Your first-letter sentence must keep the list… (a) in any order (b) in the same order (c) backwards (d) in ABC order
- 22.✋ The 9s trick: for 9 × 3, the tens digit is 3 − 1 and the ones digit is 10 − 3. What is 9 × 3?
- 23.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) plane (b) bright (c) light (d) bite
- 24.True or false: “Eat Lemons, Pick Apples” for egg, larva, pupa, adult — that is a first-letter sentence. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🔤 Which acronym helps you remember the colours of the Indian flag, top to bottom, in order: saffron, white, green? (a) SWG (b) WGS (c) GWS (d) WSG
- 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) bee (b) tell (c) write (d) knock
- 27.🔤 “PAISA” helps you remember the oceans, biggest first. What does letter 5 (A) stand for? (a) Arctic (b) Atlantic (c) Southern (d) Pacific
- 28.😴 Helps memory or hurts memory: a calm, happy mind? (a) helps memory (b) hurts memory
- 29.📆 Why plan some spare days? (a) for doubts and surprises (b) to skip revision (c) to start late (d) to waste time
- 30.True or false: “no time for review” makes a good revision timetable. (a) True (b) False
- 31.Which of these is held in short-term memory? (a) how to ride a bicycle (b) how to swim (c) directions told just now (d) your birthday
- 32.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) sleep helps you learn (b) good memory is just luck (c) memory can’t improve (d) some kids never forget
- 33.Which of these makes you lose a new name? (a) noticing the face (b) linking it to a picture (c) not asking again (d) writing it down later
- 34.🧠 Fact or myth: “everyone forgets things”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
- 35.🔢 You want to remember the number 944428732. Which chunked version keeps every digit in the same order? (a) 944 442 8732 (b) 444 287 32 (c) 944 428 732 (d) 494 428 732
- 36.Which of these is a smart way to learn a formula? (a) never use it in sums (b) mix up the letters (c) draw a labelled picture (d) copy it 50 times blindly
- 37.🗺️ Good or poor mind map: one key word per branch? (a) a poor mind map (b) a good mind map
- 38.🔢 Use the pattern of the 9 times table. Which of these numbers is in the 9 times table? (a) 83 (b) 80 (c) 81 (d) 82
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) only listening again (b) covering the answers (c) teaching your sibling (d) quizzing with cards
- 40.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the rhyme method (b) the pomodoro (c) chunking (d) the method of loci
Answer key
- one task at a time
- breaks attention
- SNUD
- one task at a time
- add more stops
- only listening again
- onion
- False
- False
- step 3
- bell
- passive review
- free
- passive review
- a first-letter sentence
- True
- a dull white wall
- Dad
- picture the first item
- days 3, 7, 14
- in the same order
- 27
- plane
- True
- SWG
- tell
- Arctic
- helps memory
- for doubts and surprises
- False
- directions told just now
- sleep helps you learn
- not asking again
- a fact
- 944 428 732
- draw a labelled picture
- a good mind map
- 81
- only listening again
- the method of loci
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