Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 241 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
5. 5.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
14. 14.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) underline it
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
23. 23.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.📖 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
25. 25.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
39. 39.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
40. 40.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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