Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 243 · 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) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
4. 4.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
11. 11.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
14. 14.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
15. 15.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
17. 17.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
37. 37.🧠 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.”
38. 38.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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