Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 295 · 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: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
6. 6.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) underline it
8. 8.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
13. 13.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
19. 19.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
27. 27.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
29. 29.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
30. 30.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
39. 39.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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