Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 123 · 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: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
18. 18.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
19. 19.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
22. 22.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
24. 24.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
26. 26.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards

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