Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 210 · 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: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.📖 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
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
9. 9.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
16. 16.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
18. 18.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
27. 27.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) underline it
34. 34.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”

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