Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 309 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
11. 11.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
19. 19.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
30. 30.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
32. 32.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines

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