Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 271 · 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 quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
20. 20.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
24. 24.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
28. 28.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
31. 31.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) underline it
33. 33.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
39. 39.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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