Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 125 · 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: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
3. 3.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
5. 5.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
13. 13.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) write what you know
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
20. 20.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
23. 23.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
35. 35.🧠 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
36. 36.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling

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