Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 27 · 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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
8. 8.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
21. 21.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
24. 24.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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