Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 172 · 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: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
12. 12.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Underline roots.”
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
22. 22.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
28. 28.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
33. 33.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
36. 36.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
38. 38.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions

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