Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 121 · 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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
8. 8.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
10. 10.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
11. 11.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
13. 13.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
14. 14.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
39. 39.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
40. 40.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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