Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 245 · 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) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
5. 5.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
9. 9.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
13. 13.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
21. 21.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
23. 23.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
30. 30.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
31. 31.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
37. 37.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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