Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 189 · 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 the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 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.”
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
7. 7.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
13. 13.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
17. 17.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory

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