Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 220 · 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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
2. 2.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
10. 10.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
15. 15.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
26. 26.📖 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
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
38. 38.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
40. 40.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True

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