Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 202 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
4. 4.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
5. 5.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
11. 11.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
12. 12.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
17. 17.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
21. 21.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
22. 22.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
25. 25.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
26. 26.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
29. 29.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
32. 32.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
35. 35.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
38. 38.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions

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