Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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