Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 195 · 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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
2. 2.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
13. 13.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
15. 15.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
17. 17.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
19. 19.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
21. 21.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
22. 22.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.🧠 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

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