Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 159 · 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.🧠 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
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
5. 5.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
7. 7.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
16. 16.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
30. 30.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
37. 37.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly

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