Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 221 · 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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
6. 6.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
7. 7.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
13. 13.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
27. 27.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
32. 32.🧠 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?”
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.🧠 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
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling

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