Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 201 · 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: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
2. 2.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
3. 3.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
7. 7.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
9. 9.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
11. 11.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
18. 18.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
36. 36.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
38. 38.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut

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