Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 277 · 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: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
10. 10.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
12. 12.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
30. 30.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known

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