Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 20 · 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 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
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
4. 4.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
21. 21.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
27. 27.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
28. 28.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
29. 29.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.🧠 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
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: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
40. 40.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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