Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 149 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
2. 2.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
23. 23.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
32. 32.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🧠 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
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend

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