Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 204 · 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) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
7. 7.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
9. 9.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
14. 14.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
29. 29.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True

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