Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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