Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 119 · 40 questions

Study tip (Test, don’t re-read): More effective: testing yourself, recalling from memory, explaining it aloud, practice questions, quizzing a friend, self-made flashcards. Less effective: re-reading the chapter, highlighting lines, copying notes neatly, glancing at notes. After reading a page: close it, recall it, check, and fix what you missed.

1. 1.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
10. 10.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
12. 12.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”
13. 13.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
17. 17.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
24. 24.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
30. 30.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes

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