Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 139 · 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: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
8. 8.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
9. 9.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Underline roots.”
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
17. 17.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
34. 34.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
39. 39.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud

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