Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 225 · 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: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
7. 7.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
11. 11.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 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.”
14. 14.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
17. 17.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
21. 21.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
38. 38.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) looking at the diagrams

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