Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 161 · 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: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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.🧠 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
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
15. 15.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
17. 17.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
21. 21.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
23. 23.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
36. 36.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True

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