Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 179 · 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 is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
3. 3.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
13. 13.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
23. 23.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
29. 29.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
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.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
36. 36.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself

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