Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 198 · 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) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
5. 5.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
6. 6.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
11. 11.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
25. 25.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
30. 30.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
33. 33.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
34. 34.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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