Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 291 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
2. 2.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a reason to stop
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
14. 14.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
18. 18.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
20. 20.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
26. 26.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
29. 29.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
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.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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