Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 144 · 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: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
4. 4.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
12. 12.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
14. 14.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
18. 18.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
25. 25.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
40. 40.🧠 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

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