Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 130 · 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: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
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.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
18. 18.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
20. 20.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
26. 26.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
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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