Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 278 · 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 passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
10. 10.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
25. 25.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
26. 26.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
29. 29.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
30. 30.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
33. 33.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 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
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
37. 37.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly

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