Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 223 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
11. 11.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) write what you know
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
17. 17.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
19. 19.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
21. 21.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🧠 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.”
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
30. 30.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
35. 35.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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