Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 306 · 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 is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
2. 2.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
9. 9.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
32. 32.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
34. 34.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book

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