Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 214 · 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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) read the summary
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
7. 7.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
11. 11.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
37. 37.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
39. 39.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap

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