Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 242 · 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: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
9. 9.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) read the summary
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
26. 26.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
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.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
37. 37.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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