Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 219 · 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.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
10. 10.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
14. 14.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
16. 16.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
19. 19.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
22. 22.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
24. 24.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
28. 28.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
32. 32.🧠 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
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
36. 36.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
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: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself

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