Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 311 · 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: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
13. 13.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
26. 26.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
32. 32.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
35. 35.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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