Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 162 · 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: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
2. 2.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
29. 29.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
34. 34.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
35. 35.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
40. 40.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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