Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 122 · 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: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
2. 2.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
5. 5.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
12. 12.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
16. 16.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
19. 19.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
30. 30.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory

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