Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 258 · 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: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
21. 21.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
25. 25.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
29. 29.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
31. 31.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings

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