Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 150 · 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.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.📖 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
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
13. 13.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
15. 15.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.🧠 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.”
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
23. 23.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
32. 32.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
33. 33.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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