Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 155 · 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: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
13. 13.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
17. 17.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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