Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 305 · 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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
11. 11.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
12. 12.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) write what you know (d) underline it
13. 13.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Underline roots.”
14. 14.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
31. 31.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself

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